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Book of the Week: Tim Winton: Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir

Book of the Week: Tim Winton: Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir: Episode 5

Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir

Episode 5

Tim Winton: Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Tim Winton: Land's Edge - A Coastal Memoir, Episode 5

Tim Winton describes what has led him to become an environmental campaigner in Australia.

Tim Winton's memoir details how the fragile marine ecology turned him into an environmental campaigner. Read by Stephen Dillane.

by Tim Winton. 

In a specially-commissioned coda, the acclaimed author describes how the increasingly threatened and fragile marine ecology has turned him into an environmental campaigner in Western Australia. 


Read by Stephen Dillane 


Abridged and produced by Gaynor Macfarlane.

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Tim Winton reflects on how childhood days spent at the coast have shaped his whole life

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