BBCNEWS This Cultural Life June 4, 2024 15:49:00
From who i am and who i was. 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 think jeanie 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 ...