Season 1
10 episodes
24 min. per episode
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Modern kids face ancient challenges, discovering resilience and grit as they uncover their heritage's untold secrets.
Episodes
Mine work, night school, chores - and goat racing. Makayla and Jack tackle the 1898 life of Cornish kid Robert Richards.
Sienna and Paige attempt to beat the 1912 Olympic Medal winning time of one our first female Olympic swimmers, Wilhelmina Wylie.
Gracey and Mikey tackle 24 hours of Lennie Gwyther's epic 1932 solo ride from Leongatha to Sydney for the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Maeve and Harper follow in the footsteps of 1850s Lutheran refugee Thekla Staude, trekking 26 kilometres along bush tracks to take their homemade produce to market in Adelaide.
Ezekiel and Nathaniel guide a camel train through Australia's harsh desert country following the route taken in the early 1900s by teenage Afghan Aboriginal cameleer, William Satour.
"Are You Tougher than Your Ancestors?" is a fun and immersive living history series that pits the skills of today's kids against the exploits of children from Australia's past, to find out how they measure up.