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📊 Series Specifications
Network ABC TV
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 2
Original Language EN
Creator Howard Jacobson
Brilliant Creatures (2014)
Created by Howard Jacobson
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Ended Series Status:
This series has concluded and all seasons are available for tracking.
Synopsis
Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson traces the footsteps of Germaine Greer, Barry Humphries, Clive James and Robert Hughes arguing these Australian giants didn't just join the cultural revolution in the 60s - they led it.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
2 Episodes E1 Episode 1
Howard Jacobson explores four cultural iconoclasts: satirist Barry Humphries, art critic Bob Hughes, feminist/academic Germaine Greer and writer/broadcaster Clive James, who left Australia to change the world.
E2 Episode 2
The Gang of Four are at their peak: Hughes becomes Time Magazine's art critic; Germaine writes The Female Eunuch; Clive is a junior member of the London literati; Barry makes a Barry MacKenzie movie.