"I wanted to convey my affection for the vastness and variety of the architecture and scenery of Australia..."
Thus Sir John Betjeman begins the first of four programmes in which he explores his love affair with the great sub-continent.

Tonight he looks at two of the sources of Australian wealth, gold and wool - and the art and architecture they produced, from a deserted town in Northern Queensland still haunted by the ghost of gold, to a New South Wales sheep station, which is also a stately home. He also celebrates the great Australian landscape painters in a country where 'nature is always bigger than man, and nearly everybody, thank goodness, speaks English.'

A BBC/Australian Broadcasting Commission co-production