‘Western Australia cracks open your soul,” says Bill Bailey, and if you can’t imagine Joanna Lumley or Stephen Fry using quite that wording, that’s an indication that Bill Bailey’s Australian Adventure is subtly, rewardingly different to standard celebrity travelogues.
Bailey is spending all four instalments of his odyssey in Western Australia, a place with roughly the same population as Greater Manchester but in an area 2,000 times larger. You can fit 12 Great Britains into it and it’s on a par, size-wise, with western Europe. With so much raw nature and wide open space, you can be selective about who you mix with, which you suspect is how Bailey likes it.
