Back Roads

Back Roads is an Australian documentary series about regional towns all over Australia. It follows political journalist Heather Ewart as she visits remote towns and regions, and tells the stories of their fascinating communities. These locations range from Nullarbor frontier town Ceduna on the Great Australian Bight and western Queensland Town Winton to laid-back paradise Thursday Island and tiny outback town White Cliffs, which is known for opal mining and underground dugouts. Back Roads has repeatedly been praised for the way in which it manages to show the vastly different lifestyles and environments that exist across the Australian continent. As part of the Back Roads Digital Project, the show's producers also launched a call-out to all regional communities to show them the best places and people from where they live by contributing to the new user-generated-content initiative ?y Back Roads?

Rating:3.8 of 5Total number of episodes:87
Last broadcast:20/01/2022 at 14:30

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Season 6

29:00

Season 6, Episode 2 - Nullarbor, Sa (part 2) Turning Back Time

20/01/2022 3.0 6 x

Heather Ewart resumes her Nullarbor Plain odyssey, this time from the South Australian border travelling west across Western Australia. It is a very special tale of time travel, outer space and underground secrets.

30:00

Season 6, Episode 1 - Nullarbor, Sa (part 1) The Endless Horizon

19/01/2022 4.5 9 x

Back Roads takes you to some of the widest open spaces on Earth. Join Heather Ewart on the first of a two part journey across the Nullarbor Plain, discovering why people are drawn to this remote landscape and why they stay.

Season 8

30:00

Season 8, Episode 3 - Cradle Mountain, Tas

17/01/2022 4.3 67 x

Guest presenter Joe O'Brien taps into his inner Bear Grylls in this Back Roads adventure to Cradle Mountain in the wilds of the Tasmanian Highlands.

30:00

Season 8, Episode 2 - Tom Price, Wa

10/01/2022 4.2 208 x

There are unexpected encounters when colourful South Pacific and traditional cultures kick up the red dust of the Pilbara as Back Roads heads to the town of Tom Price in Western Australia.