UNIVERSITY of New England forensic anthropologist Xanthé Mallett and lifestyle presenter Brendan Moar are putting Armidale on the map in a TV series that examines the history of Australia’s coast.
The Armidale stars are co-hosting pay-TV series Coast Australia, which is based on popular British series Coast, which has been broadcast in the UK and internationally for the past nine years.
Each episode of the series focuses on a different strip of the Australian coast.
Internationally renowned historian Neil Oliver and his co-hosts visit all corners of Australia, from Broome to Botany Bay, the Great Barrier Reef, Tasmania, the Gold Coast, Mornington Peninsula, Darwin and the Coral Coast of WA.
The series has cast its line back tens of thousands of years.
Producers say the show will join the past and the present and build a true story of a country which lives in synergy with its vast coastline, by meeting and talking with its people and intertwining this with fascinating facts and revelations.
Mallett graduated with a Bachelor of Archaeological Sciences from the University of Bradford in 2002.
In 2003, she gained her Research Masters in Biological Anthropological Sciences from the University of Cambridge and in 2007 she completed a PhD in Forensic Human Identification at the University of Sheffield.
She has featured in a number of TV shows, most recently as a presenter on Channel 10 show Wanted.
Moar has a few extra TV notches on his belt. He has been a regular face on the Lifestyle Channel on Foxtel for a decade, where has feature on numerous shows, mostly to do with architecture and gardening.
In 2011, Moar hosted The Renovators, created for Channel 10.
Mallett and Moar feature weekly on Coast Australia, which airs on the History channel on Mondays.
