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Tim Winton’s funny, sprawling saga is an epic novel of love and acceptance. Winner of the Miles Franklin and NBC Awards in Australia, Cloudstreet is a celebration of people, places and rhythms which has fuelled imaginations world-wide.

From separate catastrophes, two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch. Both moves are precipitated by disaster. The two families are a study in contrasts, ‘squared off at one another like opposing platoons’.

The Lambs are righteous, God-fearing, hard working and parsimonious, while the Pickles are licentious wastrels. The Lambs find meaning in industry and in God’s grace; the Pickles, in luck. The Lambs’ God is a maker of miracles; the Pickles’ God is the ‘Shifty Shadow’ of fate. Both families are often betrayed by their faith.

Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is dramatised for radio by D. J. Britton.

Cast:
Oriel Lamb - Kerry Fox
Lester lamb - Jonathan Hyde
Sam Pickles - Richard Dillane
Dolly Pickles – Felicity Ward
Rose Pickles - Kate Winter
Quick Lamb - James Frecheville
Fish Lamb - Tom Glenister
Beryl – Jane Slavin
And the Nyoongah* man – Wayne Blair.

Other parts played by members of the cast.

Producer/director: Eoin O’Callaghan.
A Big Fish Radio production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4