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Rating:3.6 of 5Total number of episodes:52Last broadcast:10/11/2019 at 22:30
November 2019
30:00

Season 2, Episode 3 (Mallacoota)

4.0 2 x
Heather Ewart visits Mallacoota, a remote place at the end of the road on the far eastern tip of Victoria. Known for its natural beauty and wilderness, its isolation has bred a determination in the town to look after its own.
30:00

Season 2, Episode 2 (Innisfail To Normanton)

4.0 4 x
Heather Ewart joins a big-hearted hairdresser and her 76-year-old apprentice on a ten day road-trip from their home town of Innisfail to Normanton in Queensland's Gulf country.
October 2019
30:00

Season 4, Episode 2 (Murray River, Sa)

3.0 8 x
Heather 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.
30:00

Season 3, Episode 3 (Oodnadatta (part 1))

3.0 8 x
Back Roads heads along the legendary Oodnadatta Track in outback South Australia. Heather Ewart begins her journey in the small town of Marree, where the Oodnadatta and Birdsville Tracks meet.
August 2019
29:00

Season 5, Episode 8 (Riverina, Nsw)

4.0 6 x
Heather visits one of the flattest places on earth, the dusty Hay Plains. Home to a fascinating bunch with a dry sense of humour, the town hosts the Hay Rodeo and Rainbow on the Plains - the Hay Mardi Gras. (Midseason Final)
July 2019
29:00

Season 5, Episode 7 (Flinders Ranges, Sa)

4.0 5 x
Incoming News Breakfast co-host Lisa Millar traces the footsteps of her Prussian ancestors who migrated to SA in the mid-1800s, discovering a town rich in film history and a spectacularly coloured yellow-footed rock wallaby.
29:00

Season 5, Episode 6 (Fish Creek, Vic)

4.0 4 x
Fish Creek is a whimsical town straight from a storybook, home to children's book authors and illustrators, world-renowned botanical artists, musicians and sculptors. It is near the southernmost tip of Australia's mainland.
29:00

Season 5, Episode 5 (Kulin, Wa)

3.0 5 x
280kms from Perth, Kulin is home to less than 400 people. From the 'Tin Horse Highway' - horse-shaped sculptures made out of 44 gallon drums to a giant waterslide, the quirky town is known for its generosity of spirit.
30:00

Season 5, Episode 4 (Burketown, Qld)

4.0 3 x
Guest presenter, chef and farmer Paul West heads to the Gulf of Carpentaria to see one of the world's most extraordinary weather events.
30:00

Season 5, Episode 2 (Tolmie, Vic)

4.0 4 x
Heather visits Tolmie, tucked away in Victoria's High Country. In the past it was known as a hideaway for bushrangers, near the infamous Stringybark Creek ambush where Ned Kelly and his gang murdered three police officers.
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