Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia
2011
1 hr 3 min
In ten years he turned a prison colony into the foundation of a nation
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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.
Top Cast
David Tennant as Narrator
Grace Karskens as Herself - University of New South Wales (as Professor Grace Karskens)
Tom Devine as Himself - University of Edinbugh (as Professor Tom Devine)
Clive Russell as Lachlan Macquarie
Julie Wilson Nimmo as Elizabeth Macquarie
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