Two Northern Ireland families exchange lives with their “cousins” in the New World in a BBC Northern Ireland two-part series which holds up a mirror to lifestyle, attitudes and ambitions of Northern Ireland in the 21st Century.
“No Place Like Home” sees two NI families swap their homes; their jobs; their schools; and even their habits with a counterpart family living in a town of the same name in the “New World” of Australia and South Africa.
Programme one features the Smyth family from Armagh, Northern Ireland, who spend a week living and working on a farm in Armagh, South Australia. This Armagh – population 300 – is a small rural area located on the outskirts of the Clare Valley, Adelaide. The following week their host Australian family travel over to Armagh, NI, to get an insight into how we live our daily lives.
Programme two the Sweetloves from Ballysillan, North Belfast, travel 6000 miles over to another small rural town: Belfast, South Africa, located high in the Mpumalanga range. The Sweetloves spend a week living and working in the nearby township. Their host South African family then travel back to ‘mother’ Belfast to see what our local life has to offer.
