Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

2011•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.

Documentary

Cast

David Tennant
Narrator
GK
Grace Karskens
Herself - University of New South Wales (as Professor Grace Karskens)
TD
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)