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)