Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

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2011 · 63 min · Documentary

Overview

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

• 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