Documentary · 2011 · 1h 3m

Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

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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 Lewis Fitz-Gerald as Commissioner Bigge (as Lewis Fitzgerald)

Tagline

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

Synopsis

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.

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