First Contact review: Thank God for David Oldfield

By Karl Quinn
Updated November 21 2016 - 6:23pm, first published November 18 2016 - 5:58pm
We shall not be moved: David Oldfield sticks to his guns in First Contact. Photo: David Dare Parker
We shall not be moved: David Oldfield sticks to his guns in First Contact. Photo: David Dare Parker
Ian "Dicko" Dickson is open to experiencing Aboriginal Australia. Photo: David Dare Parker
Ian "Dicko" Dickson is open to experiencing Aboriginal Australia. Photo: David Dare Parker
Tom Ballard, Renae Ayris, Dicko, Nicki Wendt and Natalie Imbruglia experience life inside a model prison. Photo: SBS
Tom Ballard, Renae Ayris, Dicko, Nicki Wendt and Natalie Imbruglia experience life inside a model prison. Photo: SBS

Thank God for David Oldfield. He is dogmatic, inflexible, arrogant and abrasive, but he's the beating heart of First Contact (SBS, November 29 to December 21 at 8.30pm), a show that would otherwise have only bleeding hearts at its disposal.

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