The BBC has uploaded 2 powerful clips for next week's penultimate episode of Banished. No Joseph sadly, but Major Ross features in What's On TV's preview of the episode.
Why are the convicts here, Governor?' asks Reverend Johnson. 'As punishment, or for punishment?' Another day, another moral dilemma for poor Governor Phillip. This time, a violent encounter between a convict and an officer has put the camp's leader in a quandary – should the offender pay, or are the grim conditions of the colony partly to blame? Meanwhile, Major Ross continues to veer between callously evil and amazingly tender, and James has to endure the darkest night he's known since arriving.
A thrilling episode that will leave you desperate for next week's finale.
If you missed episode 5, it is available on iPlayer.
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Banished storyline
I have read "An account of the English Colony in New South Wales"y 'Captain' David Collis, a diary account of the first 6 years of the colony. There is great story to be screened there - it's a pity that what we get instead is a story largely centred aound the completely unhistorical idea that the unmarried women were carved out amng the soldiers a whores, while the convicts ere not allowed to marry. The fact was that, in line with the overall aim of encouraging the convicts to stay as settlers when their sentences had expired, no obstacles were put in the path of convicts marrying, except where they were known to be already married.