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Departures is a new podcast from the Migration Museum exploring 400 years of emigration from Britain.

Episodes will launch fortnightly from Thursday 26 November.

What would it take for you to leave your home? To leave everything and everyone you know to move to another country and start again. Over the past 400 years, that’s exactly what millions of British people have been doing. Today, the news headlines are full of stories of migrants trying to come to Britain. But for most of this country’s history, it’s actually been the other way round. And Britain’s emigration rate remains one of the highest in the world. Why has such a small island nation produced so many migrants and how have they shaped the world we live in today? In a new podcast series Mukti Jain Campion speaks to people who are shedding new light on this often hidden history.

A Culture Wise Production for the Migration Museum

Producer: Mukti Jain Campion

Title Music: Shakira Malkani

Graphic design: Roland Williams

Image credit: Osbert Parker from his video Timeline, as featured in the Migration Museum's Departures exhibition.

Exhibition: This podcast accompanies the exhibition Departures: 400 Years of Emigration from Britain at the Migration Museum in London. For more information, visit: www.migrationmuseum.org/exhibition/departures