{"id":252,"date":"2011-01-16T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larelle.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/16\/the-father-of-australia"},"modified":"2011-01-16T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T14:40:00","slug":"the-father-of-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"The Father of Australia."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caledonia.tv\/productions\/full-catalogue\/video.aspx?id=1492\">caledonia.tv<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can&#8217;t wait to see this. It airs on Australia Day (Jan 26th) on BBC Two. <\/strong><br \/><strong>(My home town has a statue of Macquarie in the centre of it.) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Father of Australia<\/p>\n<p>Lachlan Macquarie, born into poverty on a small Hebridean island, rose to become Governor &#8211; absolute ruler &#8211; of the British colony that would become Australia.<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife, Elizabeth &#8211; Australia&#8217;s first Power Couple &#8211; set a notorious penal colony on course to become a modern nation.<\/p>\n<p>Macquarie was brought down by powerful enemies in the colony.  Yet, two and a half centuries after his birth, he&#8217;s an Australian hero.<\/p>\n<p>Drama-documentary starring Clive Russell as Lachlan Macquarie, and Julie Wilson Nimmo Elizabeth.  Narrated by David Tennant.<\/p>\n<p>Credits:<\/p>\n<p>Narrator &#8211; David Tennant <br \/> Lachlan Macquarie &#8211; Clive Russell <br \/> Elizabeth Macquarie &#8211; Julie Wilson Nimmo <br \/> Producers &#8211; Seona Robertson &amp; Stuart Scowcroft <br \/> Director &#8211; Les Wilson<\/p>\n<p>Producers:<\/p>\n<p>BBC Scotland      <br \/>The History Channel      <br \/>Intomedia <br \/>Screen Australia      <br \/>Screen NSW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via caledonia.tv &nbsp; Can&#8217;t wait to see this. It airs on Australia Day (Jan 26th) on BBC Two. (My home town has a statue of Macquarie in the centre of it.) The Father of Australia Lachlan Macquarie, born into poverty on a small Hebridean island, rose to become Governor &#8211; absolute ruler &#8211; of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Father of Australia.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,47,94,152],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-australia","tag-bbc","tag-david-tennant","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}