Bodyline

Season 1 Episode 1: Empire

Mar 19, 1984NR5h 30m7.6

Set at a time when 40 million English ruled a third of the World's population and when to be born British was to win first prize in the lottery of life episode 1 introduces Harold Larwood, son of a coal miner born into poverty, Donald Bradman born and raised in the Australian bush and Douglas Jardine, child of the Raj born in India educated in England surrounded by affluence and power. The first episode focuses on Australia, a yound nation, emerging from the shadow of England. Douglas ... Full Story