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The World About Us: White Man in a Hole

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

with Rena Briand

Opal fever has attracted fortune-seekers from all over the world to dig and burrow into the heart of Australia in search of the exquisite and timeless opal.
The world's richest opal field, Coober Pedy, lies in the middle of a vast sunburnt plain; the population live underground, like moles, sheltering from the heat, dust and flies. There are educated men and illiterate men, crooks, crackpots and vagabonds - all seized by the same insatiable hunger for opal.

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Subject:
Rena Briand
Narrator:
Duncan Carse
Producer:
Bob Saunders
Series Editor:
Anthony Isaacs
Series Editor:
Christopher Parsons
Source: Radio Times

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