Living with Uncle Sam
A series of ten films in which Alan Whicker talks to a wide range of Brits in the USA.
9: Sometimes When I'm Lonely I Long for Hastings....
Dawn Langley Simmons emigrated from Kent as a man, became a woman and made the first mixed marriage in South Carolina.
She is one of the programme's five lone women survivors. A divorcee, Elizabeth Daoust is Head of Protocol for the House Foreign Affairs
Committee in Washington. Hilary Brookes, a GI bride lives with her son in New
Orleans: 'It's like living on a volcano - you just get used to it ..." Mary Hayes is a black social worker who, after 25 years, wants to go home to work in her native Liverpool; but the former wife of James, Pamela Mason , has no regrets about leaving England - 'I'd be shot before I'd go back.' Research DEBORAH ISAACS Film cameraman MIKE FOX
Sound recordists JOHN PARKER. KEITH RODGERSON. Film editor LIZ THOYTS Producer JONATHAN STEDALL BBC Bristol
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