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good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. more than 70 people have died, including children, after fire tore through a five storey apartment building injohannesburg in south africa. more than 50 people were injured, and there are fears that the number of fatalities will rise as rescue work continues at the site. the block had been declared unsafe for use, but city officials say it had been taken over by property gangs who rent out the rooms and overfill them. our southern africa correspondent pumza fihlani reports from johannesburg. a warning her report contains distressing scenes from the start. piercing screams as a fire rages through a building in the heart of johannesburg. home to hundreds, residents have described the horror of people clamouring to get to the nearest exit as smoke filled the building s narrow corridors. many were not that building s narrow corridors. many were not that lucky. building s narrow corridors. many were not that lucky. the bui ....
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 ....
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 ....