NaN/100 votes#1 - Waterfall Way
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 6/11/2018
Heather Ewart travels to Waterfall Way in NSW, one of the most beautiful drives in Australia. But it's not just the scenery that's spectacular, Heather meets some wonderful locals including celebrated pianist, David Helfgott.
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NaN/100 votes#2 - Murray River, SA
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 6/17/2018
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.
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NaN/100 votes#3 - Natimuk
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 6/24/2018
Guest presenter Paul West visits the small, yet spectacular, town of Natimuk in Victoria. Paul discovers that two worlds have collided in Natimuk, where the community is a mix of rock climbers and German-Lutheran farmers.
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NaN/100 votes#4 - Scottdsdale
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 7/2/2018
Heather visits Scottsdale in Tasmania's north-east. After losing three major industries, the area's unemployment figures doubled. With the only options to move or innovate, locals started creating new jobs.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - Thallon
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 7/9/2018
ABC News presenter Joe O'Brien visits the tiny Queensland town of Thallon. Joe grew up in regional Queensland, and he gladly leaves the studio behind to head into the outback.
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NaN/100 votes#6 - Robinvale
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 7/16/2018
Heather Ewart visits Robinvale, in Victoria, which was named after a local soldier, Lieutenant George 'Robin' Cuttle, who was killed at the Somme during the First World War, near the town of Villers-Bretonneux in France.
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NaN/100 votes#7 - Tiwi Islands
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 7/23/2018
Guest presenter and triple j newsreader Brooke Boney is taking over the Back Roads reins this week, travelling to the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin.
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NaN/100 votes#8 - Nyngan
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 7/30/2018
In the midseason final, Heather Ewart travels to the surprising little town of Nyngan. The gateway to the outback in NSW, this isolated spot on the Bogan River, Nyngan locals are changing the lives of others.
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NaN/100 votes#9 - The Greengrocer
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/2018
Heather Ewart is on a road trip in Queensland with a much-loved travelling greengrocer. For 30 years, Fari Rameshfar has travelled through droughts, cyclones and floods to deliver fresh food to people living in isolation.
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NaN/100 votes#10 - Lightning Ridge
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/2018
Heather Ewart heads to the NSW outback town of Lightning Ridge, a place of dreamers and drifters, with most residents lured by the black opals. Heather discovers the many stories of Lightning Ridge's outback grit.
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NaN/100 votes#11 - Furneaux Islands
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/2018
Guest presenter Paul West visits the Furneaux Islands, a wild and windswept group of islands in Bass Strait, just off Tasmania. The cold ocean waters are full of treasures like lobsters and abalone, plus rusted shipwrecks.
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NaN/100 votes#12 - Beaufort
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/2019
Heather Ewart travels to the historic Victorian town of Beaufort, which is halfway between the two 'rats' - Ararat and Ballarat. 160 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, it's a place where old and new collide.
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NaN/100 votes#13 - Marble Bar
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/2019
Back Roads travels to Marble Bar, known as the hottest place in Australia. Singer-songwriter and ABC Radio's Saturday Night Country presenter Felicity Urquhart takes the wheel as we visit red-dirt country in the Pilbara, WA.
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NaN/100 votes#14 - The Coorong
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/28/2019
Heather Ewart visits The Coorong, an area spanning 130kms of South Australian coastline. It's a stunning mosaic of wild ocean beaches, lagoons and wetlands, but in many ways it's become the forgotten end of the Murray River.
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NaN/100 votes#15 - Finke
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/4/2019
ABC's Joe O'Brien visits the remote Northern Territory community of Finke, traditionally known as Aputula and famous for the Finke Desert Race, a 460 kilometre off-road endurance rally, one of the toughest in the world.
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NaN/100 votes#16 - Windorah
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/11/2019
Heather Ewart visits the small town of Windorah in Queensland's Channel country between Longreach and Birdsville. Many people live there because they love the splendid isolation, but it comes with a price.
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The Best Episodes of Back Roads Season 4
Every episode of Back Roads Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Back Roads Season 4!
Heather Ewart swaps reporting from political corridors of power to a new beat around the bush. Along the way she visits remote towns and regions...
Genre:Documentary
Network:ABC TV
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Waterfall Way" is the best rated episode of "Back Roads" season 4. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/11/2018. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Murray River, SA".