| At eight years old, an impoverished Bert Facey was forced to start the backbreaking, dawn-to-dusk life of a farm labourer. Unschooled, his father dead, abandoned by his mother, by the age of twenty he had survived the rigours of pioneering the harsh Australian bush and the slaughter of the bloody WWI campaign at Gallipoli. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Bill Hunter | Charlie Bibby | 4 |
| Ray Meagher | Bad Bob | 4 |
| John Ley | Eric Facey | 4 |
| Bill Kerr | Narrator (voice) | 4 |
| Paul Sonkkila | Archie McCall | 4 |
| Val Lehman | Bert's Mother | 4 |
| Jeffrey Rhoe | Jock McKay | 4 |