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Celebrity Treasure Island's Matilda Green on 'materialistic' misconceptions and baby number three

'I feel like the role of mother has been undervalued for so long.'

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Brian Temba's quest to learn more about music

After acting in various TV series, winning different accolades and releasing music, Brian Temba wants to go back to school to learn more about music.

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This Cultural Life

is that this thing i helped create, itjust lives without me and it lives in culture. and, you know, a high school in sydney right now is doing it, well, dozens of high schools in sydney are doing it. and you know, the finnish version, i just got sent the translation, i think the mandarin back translation and then there's children's books and now there's this incredible feature film. # sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty # and i actually feel uncomplicated about it. i feel like matilda, of all the things i've done, there's just no... ..downside to matilda. it's done so much good in the world. it's generated incredible opportunities for kids and money for charities and good messages for young women. and it's... i'm very, very lucky to have been involved. and a personal affirmation for you, for your work. has it changed the way that you write songs or the way that you feel about your confidence, for instance, in being a songwriter? yeah, it completely changed my

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This Cultural Life

and even matilda, they're all explorations of how to live ethical lives. if that's yourjob, then all the slings and arrows and all the blows must necessarily be leveraged into your future work. and in doing so, in turning them into work, yourjob is to take the manure of your life and plant flowers in it and take all those nutrients of grief and rejection and whatever, and figure out how you can use it to make nice stuff. tim minchin, thank you so much for sharing your cultural life. it's a pleasure. thanks for listening to me ramble on! good. beautiful. nice. we're good actors. yeah, that was good. we should be the new mighty boosh.

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This Cultural Life

you're a grown—up # # and when i grow up # i will eat sweets every day on the way to work # and i will go to bed late every night # and i will wake up when the sun comes up # and i will watch cartoons until my eyes go square # does it feel very different matilda the musical has now been turned into a film. # r-e-v-o-l-t-i-n- revolting times! # we'll s-i-n-g # u-s-i-n-g # we'll be r-e-v-o-l-t-i-n-g # it means that millions more people around the world will get to see and hear your songs. once it becomes that big, does it change your relationship with your work, with the work that you produce for matilda, do you think? yeah, itjust has its own life. and one of the extraordinary strokes of luck in my life, of which there have been many,

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This Cultural Life

but he thought my songs were very clever and angular in a way that he thought matched dahl. he wasn't sure about whether i was right because it was all very sardonic and sarcastic. but sometimes, for an encore, i'd go on and drop all the irony. and that night i went on and played white wine in the sun, which is my christmas song for my daughter. and about your family, about reconnecting? # you won't understand but you will learn some day # that wherever you are and whatever you face # these are the people who make you feel safe in this world # and matthew went, "0h, 0k, he's got that as well." and so he called me into a meeting and asked me if i'd heard of roald dahl and the story of matilda, which of course i had, because dahl was huge in my childhood. and, yeah, itjust has completely changed my life. matilda just changed my life.

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This Cultural Life

i mean, he didn't put it in that many words. he just gave me a nudge in that direction. i realised what he was saying is i didn't need to armour myself with meta, with irony, with satire. i could just write with words to try and elicit a genuine emotion out of the audience. and once he gave me permission to do that, it actually... changed my life. matilda sits in culture as something that altered british culture a tiny bit, and i contributed to it and that made me think, "oh, i could be an artist, notjust a clown." i am just the luckiest human in the world. and i am lucky that i was able to leverage some of my losses into gains to find ways to talk about the human condition. i mean, if you're writing about the human condition, which most artists are on some level, and i definitely am in a quite explicit way, the how are we to live question, like what is moral and what is meaningful? and groundhog day and upright

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This Cultural Life

# r-e-v-o-l-t-i-n- revolting times! # we'll s-i-n-g # u-s-i-n-g # we'll be r-e-v-o-l-t-i-n-g # it is 2-l-8-4-u # we r—e—volting # there are themes in roald dahl�*s matilda, that of revenge, anarchy, using your wits to overcome an adversary, a violent adversary as well. is that part of what appealed for you? i think so. i think i really like writing from children's point of view, a kid unpacking the fact that she realises she's different from other people. it was just such a joy to pour all my 37—year—old knowledge into a six—year—old genius. # and when i grow up i will be smart enough # to answer all the questions that you need to know # the answers to when

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BBC News

voice-over: this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. 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

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Mutloatse finally gives Matilda avoice in The Suit

Accomplished writer and publisher Mothobi Mutloatse has re-worked the theatre adaptation of Can Temba’s popular short story, The Suit.

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