The Real Story of POWS and the Burma Railway

In 1942, using forced labour, the Japanese began building a 415km train track through heavy jungle, to link the town of Ban Pong in Thailand with Thanbyuzayat in present-day Myanmar. Jonathan Wright explores the story of the so-called ‘Death Railway’ and talks to the scriptwriter of a 2025 series that has the experience of an Australian PoW at its centre

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