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	Podcast:		The Documentary
	Episode:		The Romanian Wave
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:26:59
	Publish Date:		2019-03-27 07:05:00
	Description:		Romanians are the second largest foreign nationality in the UK. Why did they come and will they stay? One politician famously once said he "would not like to live next door to Romanians." But now they work in the health service, they teach in British universities, pick fruit on farms and wash cars. Yet sensational headlines have described them as "criminal gangs" and "begging Roma." Tessa Dunlop, a Romania-phile historian, uncovers a misunderstood, multi-layered immigrant community and asks why so many now call Britain home.
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