Back Roads Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Series 4 More Best of Back RoadsHeather shares a couple of her favourite recent stories from Victoria: A cheeky public artwork in Warrnambool brings two colourful characters together and rival footy teams in Corryong makes for plenty of local banter.
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Episode 2 - Series 4 Best of Back RoadsHeather shares a couple of her favourite recent stories from Tasmania: Lawnmower Racers in Bream Creek and a wood chopping Grandfather and Grandson in Cygnet.
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Episode 3 - Series 4 Windorah, QLDHeather Ewart visits the small town of Windorah in Queensland's Channel country between Longreach and Birdsville. Many people live there because they love the splendid isolation, but it comes with a price.
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Episode 4 - Series 4 Finke, NTABC News presenter Joe O'Brien visits the remote Northern Territory community of Finke, traditionally known as Aputula and famous for the Finke Desert Race, a 460km off-road endurance rally, one of the toughest in the world.
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Episode 5 - Series 4 The Coorong, SAHeather Ewart visits The Coorong, an area spanning 130kms of South Australian coastline. It's a stunning mosaic of wild ocean beaches, lagoons and wetlands, but in many ways it's become the forgotten end of the Murray River.
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Episode 6 - Series 4 Marble Bar, WABack Roads travels to Marble Bar, known as the hottest place in Australia. Singer-songwriter and ABC Radio's Saturday Night Country presenter Felicity Urquhart takes the wheel as we visit red-dirt country in the Pilbara, WA.
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Episode 7 - Series 4 Beaufort, VICHeather Ewart travels to the historic Victorian town of Beaufort, which is halfway between the two 'rats' - Ararat and Ballarat. 160 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, it's a place where old and new collide.
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Episode 8 - Series 4 Furneaux Islands, TASGuest presenter Paul West visits the Furneaux Islands, a wild and windswept group of islands in Bass Strait, just off Tasmania. The cold ocean waters are full of treasures like lobsters and abalone, plus rusted shipwrecks.
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Episode 9 - Series 4 Lightning Ridge, NSWHeather Ewart heads to the NSW outback town of Lightning Ridge, a place of dreamers and drifters, with most residents lured by the black opals. Heather discovers the many stories of Lightning Ridge's outback grit.
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Episode 10 - Series 4 The Greengrocer, QldHeather Ewart is on a road trip in Queensland with a much-loved travelling greengrocer. For 30 years, Fari Rameshfar has travelled through droughts, cyclones and floods to deliver fresh food to people living in isolation.
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Episode 11 - Series 4 Nyngan, NSWHeather Ewart travels to the surprising little town of Nyngan. The gateway to the outback in NSW, this isolated spot on the Bogan River, Nyngan locals are changing the lives of others.
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Episode 12 - Series 4 Tiwi Islands, NTBack Roads takes you on an unforgettable journey to the spectacular Tiwi Islands north of Darwin off the NT coast. Brooke Boney meets the locals and explores the history of this fascinating community.
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Episode 13 - Series 4 Robinvale, VICHeather Ewart visits Robinvale, in Victoria, which was named after a local soldier, Lieutenant George 'Robin' Cuttle, who was killed at the Somme during the First World War, near the town of Villers-Bretonneux in France.
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Episode 14 - Series 4 Thallon, QldABC News presenter Joe O'Brien visits the tiny Queensland town of Thallon. Joe grew up in regional Queensland, and he gladly leaves the studio behind to head into the outback.
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Episode 15 - Series 4 Scottsdale, TASHeather visits Scottsdale in Tasmania's north-east. After losing three major industries, the area's unemployment figures doubled. With the only options to move or innovate, locals started creating new jobs.
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Episode 16 - Series 4 Natimuk, VICGuest presenter Paul West visits the small, yet spectacular, town of Natimuk in Victoria. Paul discovers that two worlds have collided in Natimuk, where the community is a mix of rock climbers and German-Lutheran farmers.
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Episode 17 - Series 4 Murray River, SAHeather Ewart travels along the southern Murray River. She meets locals who've weathered drought & flood. She experiences many shades of the river from its bountiful Riverland to the spectacular limestone cliffs of Big Bend.
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Episode 18 - Series 4 Waterfall Way, NSWHeather Ewart travels to Waterfall Way in NSW, one of the most beautiful drives in Australia. But it's not just the scenery that's spectacular, Heather meets some wonderful locals including celebrated pianist, David Helfgott.
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