Michael Frayn is still going strong as of 2026, aged 92.....

The wildness and beauty of the inhospitable australian outbacks always interested me. This old charm rail video proved quite informative more about it's history. Many a time before the name GHAN railway in Australia had me thinking about it's peculiarity but never aroused in me the need to check the mystery behind its origin, and here in this wonderful doc i learnt about the GHAN history 😆.

“Sky - Where opposites meet” is the entire soundtrack of this episode. Great music.

@ 55:57 this video dates itself with the old style of dial telephone, that tells you how old this footage is, Hell, when I was kid we had a 3-diget phone number and it was on a common line, so you could pick up the receiver and listen into another conversation.

An excellent program, I first saw this documentary many years ago. So good to find it again. Excellent music too.

I really enjoyed the ramshackle delivery of the subject matter.

The Modern Ghan is a premium expensive cruise ship in comparison

3:09 - Ross Campbell is seeing Michael Frayn off from Sydney's Central Station. He was a humourous newspaper and magazine columnist who'd write about his family but change the names - Laura was 'Little Nell' (from Dickens' 'The Old Curiosity Shop') and it was under this name that she appeared in 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show', later running the legendary 80s New York nightclub Nell's.

Love the state of the old line. No wonder it was replaced

How things have changed. If only I could have taken the train over the old Ghan before it became confined to the history books.....

Very nice.. Thanks .Fantastic coverage,

Loved this, but like so many documentaries,  the music is way too loud / much louder than the dialog.  
I have to turn the volume up to hear the dialog,  only to have the music come blasting, and I'm constantly changing the volume... very annoying.  
The content is great... thanks for posting.

really really good video with all sorts of interesting side trips

Very good, thanks.

22:51 Coming into Peterborough behind the Junction Hotel

Many thanks for posting, very enjoyable.

What a difference Perth looks now? lol

19:37...............

Null alabur

Very interesting, although terribly Anglo-centric and does nothing to contradict the myth of terra nullius.  It's of its time I suppose.  Some token acknowledgement of the traditional indigenous owners of Australia would have been nice though.