In this episode of Kelvin Confidential, host James Hewison sits down with acclaimed writer, director, producer, and showrunner Tony Ayres for a wide-ranging conversation about identity, storytelling, creative ambition, and the changing shape of the Australian screen industry.

Episode Highlights

Tony traces the origins of his creative life back to a childhood marked by migration, instability, and poverty. Arriving in Australia at the age of three with his mother and sister, he reflects on how storytelling became both refuge and survival mechanism, an imaginative response to uncertainty that would eventually become the foundation of his career.

From philosophy and literature to art school, the path was anything but straightforward. Tony speaks candidly about his early studies, his mixed experience at the  ...