A Fork in the Road

Pria explores a relatively unexplored aspect of Australia: that of a nation at the forefront of science and technology research.

In the wheat belt of south-east Western Australia, Pria spends a week on the lush, golden plains of a huge farm.

Pria heads off to Queensland to interact with the coffee planters of Mareeba and the man who drives the Savannahlander, an antique two-carriage tourist train.

Pria visits Melbourne, the food capital of Australia, to meet the locals, sample their favourite foods, and discover Melbourne's culinary preferences.

Pria is in Tasmania to find out more about the cultural cringe, whereby talented classical musicians make it big in Australia only after gaining recognition overseas.

Pria talks to Jonathan Coleman, Philip Flood and Geoffrey Robertson, three Australian expats living in London, about their perceptions of different Australianisms.