by Colin Free
Harmonica themes played by Bruce Skurray Produced by Ivan Smith for the Australian Broadcasting Commission
(ABC recording: previously broadcast on August 6)
' End of the Road to Nowhere ' is an impression of an Australian ghost town. Towns such as this are not uncommon in Australia. They are the result of the rapid exhaustion of gold or coal deposits, or the replacement of river traffic by a railway. This particular ghost town is a mining one in New South Wales.