PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK

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Broadcast Details: Monday 23rd July, 9.30pm

Hester’s three star pupils and a governess have disappeared. Led by a dogged Sergeant, local men search for the missing. Has something supernatural befallen them? Or has a human outrage occurred? An aristocratic young Englishman, Michael Fitzhubert, was the last person to see the girls, and when the search is abandoned, he is compelled to return to the Rock where he makes a shocking discovery.

Episode 2

Series Overview

A penetrating reimagining of the iconic and timeless Australian novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock plunges us into the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and their governess
on Valentine’s Day, 1900.

The complex, interwoven narrative charts the subsequent investigation and the event’s far-reaching impact on the students, families and staff of Appleyard College, and on the nearby township. Theories abound, long-held secrets are exposed, paranoia and hysteria set in, as in vastly differing ways the lives of our characters are changed for ever.

Tapping into our fear of the unknown, the series explores issues of repression and sexuality, freedom and suffocating respectability, speaks to notions of nationhood and identity, the old
world against the new, nature versus order.

Nature is at the very heart of who we are. But can we ever control it?