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Drama on 4: Cloudstreet: Quick and Rose

Quick and Rose

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Two families thrown together by separate traumas begin to learn to love their neighbours.

Tim Winton’s funny, sprawling saga is an epic novel of love and acceptance. Quick and Rose are the focus in episode two of this new radio dramatisation by DJ Britton.

Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet is a book about finding one’s place in the world and the search for meaning in life. 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. For 20 years they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts.

Cloudstreet belongs to an Australian cultural tradition of family sagas and yarns – as well as to that universal tradition of telling stories in order to find meaning in the chaos of existence. Each of its characters carries with them a small ‘history’ which, in turn, becomes part of a complicated, rambling series of stories.

Rose Pickles decides to return to Cloudstreet with Quick because, ‘It’s like getting another childhood, another go at things...It’s like a village.’ 

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
Lucy – Jane Slavin
And the Nyoongah man – Wayne Blair

Other parts were played by members of the cast. 

Dramatised for radio by D. J. Britton.
Produced and directed by Eoin O’Callaghan.
A Big Fish Radio production for BBC Radio 4

Drama on 4: Cloudstreet

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Tim Winton's chronicle of two mismatched families sharing a house in Western Australia.

Tim Winton's chronicle of two very different families, thrown together by misfortune, sharing a house in Western Australia over two decades in the mid-20th century.

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