Brave New World - Episode Guide

William Crawley travels to New Zealand's North and South Islands to explore the country's rich connections with Northern Ireland, and to reveal the remarkable stories of the Ulstermen and women - past and present - who have helped build such a powerful relationship.

In the second episode of the series, William Crawley continues his journey in New Zealand and discovers the stories of two Ulstermen who set up home there in the 19th century and went on to become some of the country's most influential politicians.

In this episode, William Crawley discovers the story of the 19th-century Ulsterman who created a business empire that still thrives today and meets a Rathfriland man who turned his back on journalism to become a producer of world-class wine.

In the final part of the series William Crawley discovers the story of the radical County Down preacher who created a social revolution in New Zealand and visits Christchurch to meet a recent migrant from Ulster helping to rebuild the city following the devastating earthquake of 2011.

In a follow-up to Brave New World: New Zealand, in this new series presenter William Crawley travels to Canada to explore the country's remarkable cultural connections with Ulster and discover the fascinating stories of the Ulstermen and women who helped shape its history.

In a follow-up to Brave New World: New Zealand, presenter William Crawley travels to Canada to explore the country's remarkable cultural connections with Ulster and discover the fascinating stories of the Ulstermen and women who helped shape its history.

In a follow-up to Brave New World: New Zealand, presenter William Crawley travels to Canada to explore the country's remarkable cultural connections with Ulster and discovers the fascinating stories of the Ulstermen and women who helped shape its history.

In this new series William Crawley travels to the USA to reveal the remarkable stories of the Ulstermen and women who have helped shape the country's industry, culture and politics. In this first episode William discovers the dangers faced by Ulster settlers on the frontier of Maine, why so many Ulster-Scots came to Pennsylvania and how Presbyterian radicals helped America gain independence from Britain.

In the second episode of the series, William Crawley travels from New Jersey to Pittsburgh as he reveals the role played by men from Ulster in the American Civil War, how an Ulster financier bankrolled the Pittsburgh steel industry and the remarkable story of a daring undercover journalist with roots in Ulster.

In the third episode of the series William Crawley travels from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to Nashville. He explores the Ulster-Scots contribution to country music, discovers the extraordinary story of a controversial US President with roots in Ulster and meets a County Antrim songwriter inspired to write an album based on his experience as an immigrant in the USA.

In this final episode of the series, William Crawley travels to California to find out about a Nobel prize-winning novelist with Ulster-Scots roots. He also visits the city named after a man from County Down and meets with the Sion Mills woman who helps run one of Silicon Valley's leading tech companies.

William Crawley explores the legacy of Ulster-Scots men and women who emigrated 'down under.'

Beginning in Sydney, he discovers how one of the founding fathers of Australian democracy was the son of a suspected highwayman from Portadown, and meets the descendant of one of a thousand girls sent to Australia from Ulster workhouses during the Famine.

In programme two William Crawley continues the story of Ulster's migrants 'down under'. Travelling from New South Wales to Melbourne, Victoria, he discovers how a magistrate's son from Rathfriland became one of Australia's most notorious bushrangers and uncovers the story of the female mechanic with roots in Belfast who became a Melbourne celebrity in the Roaring Twenties.

In the last in the series, William Crawley continues to explore the history of Ulster emigration to Australia. In Queensland, he hears the incredible survival story of a 19th-century explorer from the Moy in County Tyrone and explores the Scottish and Irish musical influences on Australia's King of Country, Slim Dusty.

Over four years and across seven hours of television William Crawley has travelled to America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia to tell the stories of some remarkable Ulster-Scots men and women who made their mark in the New World. Now he returns to home soil to find out what those stories reveal about the Ulster-Scots diaspora as a whole and how the loss of sons and daughters, neighbours and friends over generations has made emigration part of our story and of this world, Back Home.