Heres tomasz schafernaker. Talking of thunder theres just the chance of some thunderstorms today. We have some showers bring on the risk of showers with us for the next few days. But the broader message is it is going to be turning quite a bit warmer and buy good friday temperatures expected to reach 22 degrees in the south. That would be the warmest spell of weather we will have this year. We got to around 21 orso have this year. We got to around 21 or so in march. This is the satellite picture, mixed layers of cloud across the uk and the show is mostly breaking out across the southern half of england and wales this afternoon but also the north east of Scotland A Little Bit of light rain here and there. And still cold and cloudy. The evening and overnight initially clear across many areas but towards the end of the night around the coast of wales, cornwall, devon, possibly the midlands, it will become quite murky in places with drizzle around the coasts. Temperatures at five, 6 degree
Ill take myjacket off. Yeah, youll get warm. Youll get warm. What, are you going to ask me some quite heated questions . Yeah. Youre going to be sweating. No, stay cool. Lets stay cool. Tim minchin, welcome to this cultural life. Hi, john, how are you . You were born in northampton. Yeah, cant you tell . And moved to perth in australia at a young age . Yeah. Musicalfamily . What sort of music was played at home . Not particularly. Although one quirk of my childhood is that in my house, from a very young age, was my great grandmothers pianola, which some people call a pedal piano, and a lot of people had pedal pianos and inherited them, but mostly, they sat there gathering dust. But my mum retained ours and kept it working because we had this collection of Something Like 300 or 400 pianola rolls, scrolls, and so that was played a lot. And so i grew up listening to all these old pre war songs like, you know, funiculi, funicula and all these weird songs and then, you know, Sound Of Music
Tim minchin, the cabaret star who wrote Matilda The Musical. He grew up in western australia, started Writing Songs in his teens and made his name as a musical comedy performer at the 2005 edinburgh festival. Mrtim minchin after a series of live solo albums, tim was commissioned to write a Stage Adaptation of the roald dahl book, matilda. The show went on to win olivier and tony awards and has now been turned into a film. In this episode of this cultural life, the radio 4 podcast, he reveals his formative influences and experiences and how, despite fame and acclaim, bad reviews still hurt. No, im not good at taking criticism. You still take it personally . 0h, hugely, yeah. Ill take myjacket off. Yeah, youll get warm. Youll get warm. What, are you going to ask me some quite heated questions . Yeah. Youre going to be sweating. No, stay cool. Lets stay cool. Tim minchin, welcome to this cultural life. Hi, john, how are you . You were born in northampton. Yeah, cant you tell . And moved t
Ill take myjacket off. Yeah, youll get warm. Youll get warm. What, are you going to ask me some quite heated questions . Yeah. Youre going to be sweating. No, stay cool. Lets stay cool. Tim minchin, welcome to this cultural life. Hi, john, how are you . You were born in northampton. Yeah, cant you tell . And moved to perth in australia at a young age . Yeah. Musicalfamily . What sort of music was played at home . Not particularly. Although one quirk of my childhood is that in my house, from a very young age, was my great grandmothers pianola, which some people call a pedal piano, and a lot of people had pedal pianos and inherited them, but mostly, they sat there gathering dust. But my mum retained ours and kept it working because we had this collection of Something Like 300 or 400 pianola rolls, scrolls, and so that was played a lot. And so i grew up listening to all these old pre war songs like, you know, funiculi, funicula and all these weird songs and then, you know, Sound Of Music