Are You Tougher than Your Ancestors? takes today’s kids on a wild ride back through time.
Drawing from Australia’s rich Indigenous and multicultural heritage, the series celebrates the diversity of our shared history.
The series turns stereotypes on their heads and the kids experience the past in ways they never imagined.
Are You Tougher Than Your Ancestors? is a living history series full of gross, “OMG!” moments, as each episode takes modern children into a foreign world. To survive the experience they must take risks, push themselves, trust their abilities and make decisions on their own, without Mum or Dad (or Google!) anywhere in sight.
Each episode is built around a fresh and exciting story that you’re unlikely to find in the history books! Featuring true stories of amazing ancestors – heroic and unusual tales of courage, endurance and ingenuity displayed by kids from the past that we ask our modern children to emulate. While the series visits familiar eras and events, each episode looks at them from a brand-new historical viewpoint: through the eyes of the children who were there.
The show’s guide “G” (Ghenoa Gela) introduces each episode and provides insight and encouragement as the contemporary kids are transported to a specific time and event from a bygone era. At the end of each episode we find out whether today’s kids are tougher than our ancestors… and what they discover might just surprise us all!
Production details
The ABC presents in association with the South Australian Film Corporation and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation a Flying Kite / Sticky Pictures Production.
Written and Series Produced by Vanna Morosini. Directed by Brad Gustafson. Series Hosted by G (Ghenoa Gela). Executive Producers Donna Andrews and Stu Connolly. ABC Executive Producer Amanda Isdale. ACTF Executive Producer Bernadette O’Mahony.
