Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

01/25/2011

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1hr 3min

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Documentary

In ten years he turned a prison colony into the foundation of a nation

STORY

Biography of Lachlan Macquarie and his wife, Elizabeth, who arrived to govern the colony of New South Wales in Australia in 1810. In just over a decade, the couple transformed the prison colony into a proto nation.

CAST & CREW

Cast

David Tennant
Grace Karskens
Tom Devine
Clive Russell
Julie Wilson Nimmo

INFORMATION

Production Companies

Screen Australia
Intomedia
Screen NSW
Caledonia Productions

Production Countries

LANGUAGES

English

Cast

David Tennant

Narrator

Grace Karskens

Herself - University of New South Wales (as Professor Grace Karskens)

Tom Devine

Himself - University of Edinbugh (as Professor Tom Devine)

Clive Russell

Lachlan Macquarie

Julie Wilson Nimmo

Elizabeth Macquarie

Lewis Fitz-Gerald

Commissioner Bigge (as Lewis Fitzgerald)