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An interview series in a class of its own. James Lipton's studious research and curiosity inspire his guests to open up and confess their deepest thoughts about their craft. This episode features Josh Brolin.

Once upon a time...a beautiful young noblewoman was murdered by her stepmother, smooth-talking men swarmed into overcrowded towns in search of youths to colonise distant lands, and rare Celtic gold coins found in fields and forests promised their finders wealth and happiness. As different as they are, these occurrences all have one thing in common: they gave rise to some of the most beloved fairy tales in the world.

For his last stop on the Bush Slam tour, H.G. Nelson takes two poets to opal mining town, Lightning Ridge, in northwest NSW. He is accompanied by songwriter and country music star, Melinda Schneider and beat-box rapper, 'Morganics'.

You certainly can't tell an Australian by the way they look, but the minute they open their mouths, the guessing is over. The cultural DNA in this country is in the sound of the way Australians speak. But why do we speak the way we do? And what exactly is the Australian accent? These and other issues are brought to the screen in The Sounds of Aus - the national conversation we had to have.

An interview series in a class of its own. James Lipton's studious research and curiosity inspire his guests to open up and confess their deepest thoughts about their craft. This episode features Jason Bateman.

This week, HG Nelson guides the Bush Slam ute into the remote town of Blinman, South Australia. He is accompanied by Melbourne poet and author, Alison Croggon, and Western Australian poet, writer and editor, John Kinsella. John is predominantly a landscape poet and environmental activist and finds the vast arid landscape inspirational. As such, his first foray is down a dry creek bed littered with the detritus of the town.

An interview series in a class of its own. James Lipton's studious research and curiosity inspires his guests to open up and confess their deepest thoughts about their craft. This episode features Denis Leary.

This week the Bush Slam bus with H.G. Nelson and his two fellow poets are off to Yarrabah, just south of Cairns in Queensland. Yarrabah is a tropical gem, bordered by rainforest on one side and the blue waters of the Great Barrier Reef on the other.

After Lydia Bennet is married, she and Wickham visit Longbourn before he joins his new regiment in the North. She is as silly as ever and very proud of her success in catching Wickham, even offering to get husbands for her sisters. But Lydia accidentally lets slip that Darcy was at her wedding, leaving Elizabeth searching for an explanation.

An interview series in a class of its own. James Lipton's studious research and curiosity inspires his guests to open up and confess their deepest thoughts about their craft. This episode features Danny De Vito.

H.G. Nelson finds himself in the saddle as Bush Slam arrives in the Murray River high country in northern Victoria. Poets Emily Ballou and Ezra Bix are challenged to capture the spirit of the area that inspired Australia's greatest poem - Banjo Patterson's The Man From Snowy River.

The Bingleys and Georgiana (Darcy's sister) arrive at Pemberley to call upon Elizabeth Bennet, who is staying nearby at the inn in Lambton. The visit is a success as Elizabeth immediately warms to Georgiana and Mr Bingley is clearly delighted to see Elizabeth again.

An interview series in a class of its own. James Lipton's studious research and curiosity inspires his guests to open up and confess their deepest thoughts about their craft. This episode features Ricky Gervais.

This week Bush Slam, with H.G. Nelson at the helm, drops anchor in the fishing town of Stanley on the northwest coast of Tasmania. H.G.'s guests - blue-collar poet, Geoff Goodfellow, and country musician, James Blundell, step ashore to capture this charming town's character in verse in just three days.