Opening with a macabre mid-nineteenth century murder, this remarkable story unfolds like a gothic thriller. For 150 years scandal and mystery have surrounded the Maynes, a wealthy family who donated the magnificent site on which the University of Queensland now stands.

On the 31st October 1999 Jesse Martin, in his yacht, Lionheart, completed the last great adventure of the twentieth century becoming the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. He was eighteen years old and didn't know the meaning of impossible. After 50 000km and 328 days at sea he returned home to Port Phillip Bay and a waiting crowd of 20 000 onlookers, having lived his dream.

The record of a six month journey which took Gerald Durrell, his wife Jacquie, and two cameramen through New Zealand, Australia and Malaya. The object was, first, to see what was being done about the conservation of wildlife in these countries, and secondly, to make a series of television films for the BBC.

This is the rollicking adventure of a young man in Outback Australia, at a time when swaggies, quartpots and 'Jimmy Woodsers' were part of our language and heritage.

In 1902 Mrs Aeneas Gunn went with her husband to live on the remote Elsey cattle station near the Roper River in the Northern Territory. 'We of the Never-Never' and 'The Little Black Princess' are two classics of Australian literature that she wrote about her experiences in the outback. Both works have been presented here as one special condensed edition to accompany the magnificanet film 'We of the Never-Never'

I Can Jump Puddles' is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood - a happy world, in which, depite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early this century: rough riders, bushmen, farmers, rouseabouts, and tellers of tall stories

Vincent Ball was born in Wee Waa, New South Wales, on the 4th Decenber, 1923. His dream of becoming a 'cowboy on the fillums' took him on adventure that includedserving in the RAAF in World War II, working his way to England on a tramp steamer and winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. He worked as an actor in England for twenty-five years, before returning to Australia.