Jill Hyem obituary by Anthony Hayward

Actor and writer who scripted the hit TV series Tenko, a drama about the lives of women imprisoned in a Japanese internment campThe actor-turned-writer Jill Hyem, who has died of cancer aged 78, scripted 14 of the 30 episodes of Tenko (1981-84), the groundbreaking television series about British, Dutch and Australian women captured and interned in makeshift camps by the Japanese following the fall of Singapore in 194…

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