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This Cultural Life

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.

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This Cultural Life

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.

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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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This Cultural Life

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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Jorja-Ray Smith train tragedy: The Ministry of Education trauma and support team that wrapped around Mount Maunganui Intermediate

The team was called in to help after the train tragedy in Mount Maunganui.

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This Cultural Life

but you are fessing up, finally! i'm fessing up. if berkshire county council wish to retain these and give them to some other shakespeare—starved youngster, i'm very pleased to hand them back! but... you know the thing that strikes me is they are in fantastic nick. you've obviously looked after them very well. i have. it also suggests that they hadn't been borrowed or listened to or used before! your sherlock holmes mind is correct! i was very... i read the sleeve notes copiously, and then these two titles became rather important to me in the end, hamlet and henry v. did you study the record, did you learn the speeches? did you...? well, i sort of, i... speak along? i copied them a bit. so i did a bit of... mimics olivier: "0, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, - "thaw and resolve itself into a dew!" is a bad version if it! 0r gielgud doing his, erm... he does a speech of hotspurs, which goes, "my liege, i did deny no prisoners. but i remember, when the fight

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This Cultural Life

if i could borrow them. i liked the bright, shiny nature of them. i think i half—heard in some distant part of my memory this name, "olivier". anyway, i took them home and i was bowled over. already aware of sort of two extremes. in the 0livier excerpts — which were from the soundtracks of the films — things like his account of hamlet�s to be or not to be soliloquy which, in his brilliant film, has him atop a rocky outcrop, looking down onto the wild sea crashing against the rocks, while he contemplate suicide. so he begins to be or not to be and goes through it, and william walton's music is soaring, shouting and trilling and supporting, and the sound effects of the water and the wind and the waves. i mean, it's shakespeare plus a lot of bells and whistles, in addition to 0livier�s beautiful voice. olivier: to be... or not to be. john gielgud, by contrast, the ages of man being an account of his recital of great speeches from shakespeare that more or less

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This Cultural Life

gielgud. i'd never heard of either the phrase �ages of man� orjohn gielgud, and the other was laurence olivier, extracts from shakespeare films with music by sir william walton, and i asked our head of english if i could borrow them. i liked the bright, shiny nature of them. i think i half heard in some distant part of my memory this name, "olivier". anyway, i took them home and i was bowled over. already aware of sort of two extremes. in the olivier excerpts which were from the soundtracks of the films, things like his account of hamlet�*s to be or not to be soliloquy which, in his brilliant film, has him atop a rocky outcrop, looking down onto the wild sea crashing against the rocks while he contemplates suicide. so he begins to be or not to be and goes through it, and william walton's music is soaring, shouting and trilling and supporting and the sound effects of the water and the wind and the waves. i mean, it's shakespeare plus a lot

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This Cultural Life

i'd never heard of either the phrase �ages of man� orjohn gielgud, and the other was laurence olivier, extracts from shakespeare films with music by sir william walton, and i asked our head of english if i could borrow them. i liked the bright, shiny nature of them. i think i half heard in some distant part of my memory this name, "olivier". anyway, i took them home and i was bowled over. already aware of sort of two extremes. in the olivier excerpts which were from the soundtracks of the films, things like his account of hamlet�*s to be or not to be soliloquy which, in his brilliant film, has him atop a rocky outcrop, looking down onto the wild sea crashing against the rocks while he contemplate suicide. so he begins to be or not to be and goes through it, and william walton's music is soaring, shouting and trilling and supporting and the sound effects of the water and the wind and the waves.

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This Cultural Life

i liked the bright, shiny nature of them. i think i half heard in some distant part of my memory this name, "olivier". anyway, i took them home and i was bowled over. already aware of sort of two extremes. in the 0livier excerpts which were from the soundtracks of the films, things like his account of hamlet�s to be or not to be soliloquy which, in his brilliant film, has him atop a rocky outcrop, looking down onto the wild sea crashing against the rocks while he contemplate suicide. while he contemplates suicide. so he begins to be or not to be and goes through it, and william walton's music is soaring, shouting and trilling and supporting and the sound effects of the water and the wind and the waves. i mean, it's shakespeare plus a lot of bells and whistles in addition to 0livier�s beautiful voice. olivier: to be. or not to be. john gielgud by contrast, the ages of man being an account of his recital of

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