Podcasts about roald dahl's matilda

Sam Mills is a British writer who has always turned to fictional characters for answers in her life. Whether that was Roald Dahl's Matilda when she was younger or Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway as an adult, they've always been the language she's used to interpret her situation. As a child, Sam didn't understand why her dad would disappear for long stretches of time so she'd tell her classmates he'd been abducted by a gang and was being held hostage. These were stories inspired by some of her favourite authors. When she was 14 years old she found out what was really happening, her father had schizophrenia. Sam's favourite storybooks continued to help her to process the world and when she became her father's primary carer, they became a lifeline. Sam has written a book about her experience called Fragments of My Father. Presenter: Emily Webb Producer: Alice Gioia Picture: Pages of a book Credit: BBC

Hosts Sara O'Connor and Will Li discuss how one fiesty four-year-old and they themselves became ravenous readers by deeply exploring Chapter 1 of Roald Dahl's "Matilda," entitled "The Reader of Books."

Lydia was pukey-sick for this episode, and I think my delivery reflects some of the stress I was feeling. Sorry about that. Lydia delivers an amazing impersonation of What If World's former president, J.F. Cat, though! This short chapter contains a surprisingly progressive argument in favor of Believing Children. I like it quite a lot. Irene has the advantage of being a Princess, of course, which works out in her favor. Lydia and I are currently reading Roald Dahl's Matilda, which is great, but the combination makes me feel sad for all the children who don't have genius or power working in their favor in bad situations. We all love our kids. Sometimes they're exasperating, but so are we. Let's be kind to smaller people. Leave us a message if you're having fun. The sources for our text are the cyber-scribes at gutenberg.org; Our theme song is Jimbo’s Lullaby by Claude Debussy performed by the Riverside Wind Consort via musopen.org. Pleasant dreams.

It's Thursday, and time for our weekly visit with theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck, who joins Midday senior producer and guest host Rob Sivak today with her review of Roald Dahl's Matilda: the Musical, now on stage in an extended run at Olney Theatre Center, in Olney, Maryland.An adaptation of one of the late British author's most popular children's stories, Matilda: The Musical was written by Dennis Kelly, with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin. The production at Olney Theatre Center is directed by Peter Flynn, with choreography by Byron Easley and music direction by Christopher Youstra. The cast of more than 30 adult and child actors features Emiko Dunn in the title role, Felicia Curry as Miss Honey, and Tom Story as Miss Trunchbull. Roald Dahl's Matilda: The Musical continues at the Olney Theatre Center through Sunday, July 28.

In the most wholesome FilmSmash yet, Roald Dahl's Matilda turns down Hogwarts to study magic alone, before teaming up with Arthur Weasley to change the whole world... Matilda Harry Potter Twitter @filmsmashpod Instagram @filmsmashpodcast Produced by Joe Trickey & Jack Liddy Artwork for this episode by squibsart on Fiverr

This episode of Pic.Think: FILM is a one-to-one discussion on Danny DeVito's rendition of Roald Dahl's Matilda with Sy & Raveen. In the first part (Childhood movies & literature), we start off the conversation taking a stroll down memory lane by first considering which 1990s movies defined our children. We also reminisce on what childhood books we read or wished we had. Throughout both the second and third part (Childhood vs. Adulthood), we review Matilda by comparing how we felt watching as a youth versus how we feel watching as adults. We discuss the memorable scenes, characters, messages taken from the film etc.

Happy 30th Anniversary, Matilda! Let's all just lean in to the goodness that is Roald Dahl's Matilda--even if she waited until THREE to learn to read. It's just delightful. NEXT up is Wait Til Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn for real this time.

Comedian Maeve Higgins on Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, being an immigrant, and finding humor even in the most trying of times. To learn more about the books we discussed in this week's episode, check out Jay McInerney's Bright Lights Big City, Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City, Maeve Higgins' Maeve in America, Roald Dahl's Matilda, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and James and the Giant Peach, C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. You can find transcripts of this episode and past ones on LitHub. Please fill out our survey at bit.ly/butthatsanothersurvey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's colourful, quotable and it inspired a generation of children to spend countless hours fruitlessly staring at glasses of water... this week on Beyond The Box Set, we continue our actors-turned-directors mini-season with a look back at Danny DeVito's utterly delightful adaptation of Roald Dahl's Matilda. Already an emerging child star thanks to roles in classic movies like Mrs Doubtfire and Miracle on 34th Street, Mara Wilson turned in the defining role of her career as the book-loving heroine Matilda Wormwood. Character actress Pam Ferris, meanwhile, chewed scenery with abandon as the monstrous Ms Trunchbull, proving that the best movie villains should always be characters we secretly sort of root for. In this week's episode - the latest edition in our ongoing series on movies by actors-turned-directors - we look back at the delicate balance of darkness and whimsy that makes Matilda one of the all time great films for children, and attempt to brainstorm what a sequel might look like over twenty years later... ----- Beyond The Box Set is the hit British movie podcast in which two movie-loving idiots take a classic standalone movie each week, and attempt to pitch the most ridiculous sequel, prequel and spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen. Our show is available on all major Podcasting platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify and more. We're also active on most forms of social media, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Just search Beyond The Box Set and give us a follow.  If you can't get enough of our show, we also host a range of exclusive bonus material on Patreon - including our cinema review show Beyond BTBS, the chance to choose a movie for us to cover on a future episode of the main show, and a regular 30 second ad slot which you can use to plug whatever you like - within reason. Access to our bonus content is available from as little as $2 per month. beyondtheboxset.com patreon.com/beyondtheboxset twitter.com/beyondtheboxset facebook.com/beyondtheboxset instagram.com/beyondtheboxset 00.00: Ms Trunchbull was in the wrong profession 21.10: Matilda Drinking Games (Over 18s only) 32.50: Matilda 2: Trunchbull's Last Stand 44.20: Matilda 2: No More Miss Nice Girl 1.00.30: Listener Submissions & Episode 63 Preview 

Kate McEvoy, video producer, twitter citizen, and former voice of Phantom FM, joins Alan and Sarah to talk about Roald Dahl's Matilda, memory, Danny DeVito's film adaptation, Roald Dahl's real life, and digressions into lots of other Roald Dahl books. Note: We had a couple of recording snafus in the second half of the episode which we had to edit out so there are a couple of abrupt changes of topic but hopefully it's not too noticeable. You can follow Kate on Twitter @ImKateMc and you should. Sarah's twitter is @griffski and her book Spare And Found Parts is both out now and excellent. Alan's twitter is @alan_maguire. He mostly does Juvenalia but he does standup sometimes too. We're doing a live show for our fiftieth episode on April 25th in the Vintage Room in the Workman's. Our guest is going to be the amazing graphic designer Annie Atkins. You should come. You can follow Juvenalia on twitter @Juvenalia_Pod or like Juvenalia on Facebook at JuvenaliaPodcast and also we're @juvenaliapod on Instagram. We're everywhere now. If you like Juvenalia and would like us to succeed in life then consider rating and/or reviewing us on your local podcast app. And tell your friends, that’s the best thing. Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced and edited by Brian + Alan