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Ep 194: Tim Minchin

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

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The Alphabet

There's a version of Matilda now that musical like on TV or online somewhere. Frickin' massive film. He just texts me, lyrics from Matilda. Out of context. And probably written down, you don't realise that the alphabet is hidden in those lyrics. That's the alphabet. Alphabet's there at all. I didn't know. It wasn't alphabet. What would it be next? Numbers? There's a fantastic line in the movie, in the Matilda movie, where Mr. Worm, this might be an anti-climatic. I might forget. She says, someone says something about Matilda getting books out of the library, and he goes,

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