Radio Times

Review by:

Gill Crawford

The third episode of Tony Robinson’s enthusiastic history of Australia centres on crime and punishment in the early years of the settlement, and a grim story it is, too. On a lighter note, while visiting the Port Arthur convict settlement on Tasmania, Robinson gets a laugh out of his film crew when he suggests what convicts might have been doing in their cell-like church pews when they should have been contemplating their crimes.

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3/6. The actor explores the first rumblings of discontent in the new settlement, the early convict uprising in New South Wales, and Australia's only military coup.

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