Hello list, I am not sure why there is this sudden interest in the subject, other the assumpion that if it has been made ino a TV programme then it must be better than anything you can read on the subject ! If you read Irene Schaffer's synopsis you have it all !! As far as the programme goes that is !! I suspect that books on the subject may well be more informative and interesting, but they run on a bit longer than Irene's note, and they may of course be short of imaginative visual re-creations ! The visual extras are a few mock-up scenes of 17th c London and lots of young women in raggety period costumes, plus a few shots of a sailing ship on a calm sea. As for winds and waves, what are they ? Not a single passenger seems to have been sea-sick on the entire journey !! The rest is an imaginary Australia of the time (or later) with which most listers will be more than familiar. So don't press for its showing in Australia, you could just be disappointed !! But, for all that, enjoy the prospect, which, more often than not in this life is better than the reality !! From your least favourite English spoil-sport, Jim Halsey, within the range, may the good Lord help me, of BBC transmitters.