When 12 year old Charlie tries to impress a girl in class by telling him he has an uncle in Australia, she asks his name. He has no idea. But helpfully, on the classroom wall is their project of Pop Through The Ages and Charlie and Cliff Richard meet eye to eye. It's Cliff. My uncle is called Cliff.' Meanwhile Pete Briggs is minding his own business at a surf school in Australia when a letter arrives for him from a young relative in England. From this innocent communication comes an adventure that would see Pete travel halfway round the world in search of a new life, but once there all was not what he thought it would be. Trapped and skint he has to take on a number of side hustles to earn his fare back home, while navigating day to day life with a family he never knew.
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