Bill Peach examines the life and culture of the capital city of South Australia, Adelaide, which has always had a reputation as Australia's most unusual city - a stronghold of dissenters, religious minorities and radical political thinkers. At the same time, its social life was long regarded as comformist, respectable and dull. Today, Adelaide is considered to be one of the liveliest cultural cities in the country, not only for its Festival of the Arts, but for its everyday lifestyle.