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
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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, 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 .