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[email protected] EMAIL Australians won 8 successive test matches, a feat TV mini-series outline unequalled in test match history. 4-PART DRAMA BASED ON A TRUE STORY... A SWEEPING STORY SET IN AUSTRALIA AND ENGLAND SHORTLY AFTER WORLD WAR ONE This is a story of immense characters, facing each other over ten matches of 3-day duration on opposite sides of the world. At stake: personal glory, a place in the annals of sporting history, fortune, honour and the public need for heroes after the loss of so Warwick Armstrong’s touring Australians, 1921 many during The Great War. It’s a tale of opposites: The English social and cricketing hierarchy, still clinging gravely to the attitudes and tactics that cost the country so dear in the previous decade; and the free- spirited determination of the Australians, keen to finally eclipse the mother country. But above all, it’s a story of personal triumphs and drama; love and fellowship; pride and tragedy, told against the backdrop of one Lionel Tennyson batting bravely one-handed Warwick Armstrong, 1921 of the most famous sporting contests in the “Australians have made world, and culminating in the biggest sporting cricket a war game...with shock of all time. an intensity of purpose Period setting, sporting action, characters, too deadly for a mere drama, massive potential for global audiences.