Tony Robinson Explores Australia — Season 1, Episode 2: Against the Odds
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 6 episodes
Episode synopsis
Tony investigates early settlers to Australia and finds their challenges to grow and find food and their relationships with the Aboriginals.
About Tony Robinson Explores Australia
Tony Robinson of Time Team fame, takes us on a journey through time and places across Australia, offering a revealing and unique perspective on Australian society and history. In this 6 part series Tony introduces us to locations where deeds great and grotesque, heralded and hidden took place. There will be surprising stories of conflicts, hardship, notoriety and discovery as Tony brings fascinating new insights into the impact the British have had on Australian life. The series will roughly follow a chronology: from the earliest sightings of Terra Australis Incognita through to today. Each era will be defined by a theme (rather than equal blocks of time). The characters who left their fingerprints on Australia’s formative years were predominantly English and Irish.