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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, i m not good at taking criticism. you still take it personally? 0h, hugely, yeah. i ll take myjacket off. yeah, you ll get warm. you ll get warm. what, are you going to ask me some quite heated questions? yeah. you re going to be sweating. no, stay cool. let s stay cool. tim minchin, welcome to this cultural life. hi, john, how are you? you were born in northampton. yeah, can t y ....
i ll take myjacket off. yeah, you ll get warm. you ll get warm. what, are you going to ask me some quite heated questions? yeah. you re going to be sweating. no, stay cool. let s stay cool. tim minchin, welcome to this cultural life. hi, john, how are you? you were born in northampton. yeah, can t 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 grandmother s 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 ....
applause 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, i m not good at taking criticism. you still take it personally? 0h, hugely, yeah. i ll take myjacket off. yeah, you ll get warm. you ll get warm. what, are you going to ask me some quite heated questions? yeah. you re going to be sweating. no, stay cool. let s stay cool. tim minchin, welcome to this cultural life. hi, john, how are you? you were born in northampton. yeah ....
gunmen opened fire on crowds in a concert hall near moscow. you see the scene here now and enormous presence of law enforcement. and first responders, at least 40 people have been killed. more than 100 hundred wounded. that s according to russian media, which is calling this an act of terrorism. we are learning more minute by minute. we will bring you each new, update our other breaking news story today. catherine, the princess of wales, says she has been diagnosed with cancer and is in the early stages of treatment. the princess says she found out after having major abdominal surgery in january and says the news came as a huge shock here is princess kate in her own words i want to take this opportunity to say, thank you personally for all the wonderful messages of support and for your understanding. is i ve been recovering from surgery it has been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family but i ve had a fantastic medical team who ve taken great care ....
cultural life: tim minchin. applause cultural life: tim minchin. 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 0livier 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, i m not good at taking criticism. you still take it personally? 0h, hugely, yeah. i ll take myjacket off. yeah, you ll get warm. you ll get warm. what, are you going to ask me some quite heated questions? yeah. you re going to be sweating. no, stay cool. let s stay cool. tim minchin, welcome to this cultural life. h ....