Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

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

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

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))