Jennifer Byrne interviews Tim Winton on the eve of his latest novel Eyrie.
Tim Winton's Cloudstreet
The Turning is a 2013 Australian anthology film based on a collection of short stories by Tim Winton. Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever. This watershed film reinterprets and re-imagines the work for the screen.
In this episode, Andrew Denton interviews Tim Winton who is consistently voted Australia's most beloved novelist. In books such as 'Cloudstreet', 'Dirt Music' and his new collection of short stories, 'The Turning', he's shown an exquisite feel for the language, the smell, the very pulse of Australia.
Explore themes of risk-taking and saying no in this film adaptation.