Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia
2011-01-25
In ten years he turned a prison colony into the foundation of a nation
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63 min
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
| Name | Character | Team | |
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David Tennant | Narrator | Goutbreak |
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Grace Karskens | Herself - University of New South Wales (as Professor Grace Karskens) | Unowned |
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Tom Devine | Himself - University of Edinbugh (as Professor Tom Devine) | Unowned |
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Clive Russell | Lachlan Macquarie | Unowned |
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Julie Wilson Nimmo | Elizabeth Macquarie | Unowned |
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Lewis Fitz-Gerald | Commissioner Bigge (as Lewis Fitzgerald) | Unowned |