This third film in the series of four finds Sir John Betjeman in the island state of Tasmania: 'an offshoot of England, near the South Pole.' He looks at its origins as a penal settlement, the architectural development of the capital, Hobart, and visits several fine houses in the north.

He contemplates the intrusion of the 20th century: cars, pylons, high-rise buildings. 'The New Bush has reached the ends of the earth. It has reached Tasmania.'