Basic Info

First Air: May 22, 2016

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Last Episode

Name: Episode 3

Season: 1, Episode: 3

Air Date: 2016-06-05

Runtime: 60 min

In this final episode, Ian's in the grasslands of Kyrgyzstan in the former Soviet Union to discover how his ancestors' horse-taming skills and the invention of the wheel changed the course of human history. Julia Zemiro's father's ancestors were on the beautiful island of Sardinia, off the west coast of Italy. Ernie Dingo's genetic map leads him to Timor Leste, where he learns of humankinds' greatest ever achievements - the journey to arrive on the shores of Australia for the first time.

Videos

DNA Nation (YouTube)

DNA Nation premieres 8.30pm, Sunday 22 May on SBS (YouTube)

DNA Nation

2016 1 seasons 3 episodes

Overview

Who are we? And where do we come from? Australia's greatest Olympian Ian Thorpe, iconic Indigenous actor Ernie Dingo, and TV presenter and Queen of Eurovision Julia Zemiro set off on an epic journey of genetic time travel to find out.