Episode 1
by Tim Winton.
Acclaimed Australian author, Tim Winton, recalls childhood memories of Christmas holidays in a shack at the beach, the coastal summer idyll and how his relationship with the sea has shaped his adult life.
Read by Stephen Dillane
Abridged and produced by Gaynor Macfarlane.
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