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Asylum Seeker or Scrounger?
Episode 4 of 5
Julian Putkowski presents a series on cases that show up Civil Service bureaucracy. In 1954, a young man was found aboard a Polish ship. Was he an asylum seeker or a stowaway?
Files from the National Archive reveal preposterous acts both grand and petty. Julian Putkowski distills them down.
Klimowicz was just another Polish stowaway seeking political asylum in London in 1954. The Home Office got ready to boot him out. Then the Prime Minister, Churchill, got involved. His solution? Send in the destroyers. With Shami Chakrabarti
Reader: Crawford Logan
Producer: Matt Thompson
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.
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