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Radio 1's All Day Breakfast with Greg James

Cynthia Erivo!

Radio 1's All Day Breakfast with Greg James

BBC

Society & Culture

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Greg takes Cynthia Erivo back to her secondary school for a very special reason! They talk about the incredible response to Wicked, school days and there's some incredible live singing - yes the iconic riff too!

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:43.3

Radio One's All Day Breakfast with Greg James.

0:47.2

Hello and welcome to the Radio One All Day Breakfast podcast, Cynthia Erivo special.

0:53.1

Last week I got the chance to do something really cool.

0:56.7

We had the opportunity to spend some time with Cynthia O'Revo in the run-up to the release

1:00.4

of the enormous phenomenon that is wicked for good, which is Wicked Part 2.

1:08.3

Cynthia was really keen to do something that wasn't just a chat in the studio or sit down, stand up, or unpopular opinion, we thought if she's up for it, we love getting out of the studio and doing something daft, or in this case, really sweet and also a bit daft.

1:24.0

So Cynthia is obviously the real deal. She has been a superstar in the making for many, many years. As a kid, she was always acting and singing and wanting to be on a stage and do all that kind of stuff. We thought it would be nice to take her back to where it all began her school in South London, in Clapham.

1:46.8

We wanted to surprise the students and she was really up for it. Cynthia Arrivo's team were really

1:52.0

up for it. The wicked team were really wickedly excited by the whole thing. And we all went down to

1:58.8

her school, old school in Clapham after the breakfast show a couple of Mondays ago.

2:02.8

And we were basically lying in wait for her to arrive.

2:07.0

And I had to go into this rehearsal room where loads of kids from like, how old were they, Tom?

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