but the songs seem to be very personal. they appear to be usually written in the first person or reflecting aspects of your own life. the next choice you've made for this programme is being commissioned to write the songs for matilda the musical. so you were approached by the director, matthew warchus, to create these songs for the adaptation of the roald dahl book for the royal shakespeare company. why did he ask you? well, this was 2008, and i had... i was now a bit more established as a comedian in the uk and i was touring, and i thinkjeanie 0'hare, who was the literary manager at the rsc, pointed matthew towards me as a singer—songwriter, basically, who had some dexterity with the english language, arguably. and matthew came and saw my show, which was called ready for this at that stage, my 2008 show. # only a ginger can call another ginger, ginger...# and he enjoyed it. it probably would've been