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DJing and playmaking are the same thing in which I have a captive audience of 85,000 people, 700 people or of 50 people.

It doesn't matter on the size of the room or the space. And the stories are the same. I'm still telling the same stories I was telling when I was playing stories by Innocet kids in Tower Blocks.

Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service.

The series which goes inside the mind for some of the world's most creative people.

I'm Felicity Finch and in this week's episode we're following Matthew Zier, the Olivier Award-winning artistic director of the UK Theatre Group, Actors Touring Company.

Matthew is also known as DJ Excalibur. He's performed to a global audience of over a billion as one of the headline DJs at the London 2012 Paralympic opening ceremony.

He's using his love of hip-hop music in his latest production, the British Premier of the American Play, TAMBO and Bones, at London Stratford East Theatre.

When I discovered this play in 2019, it blew my mind and I thought I'd got to get out of this play. I thought it was funny, I thought it was slightly dangerous, provocative.

The fact that it had a hip-hop concert in the middle of it, I thought it was kind of brilliant and was part of the world I knew.

Written by the American Playwright Dave Harris, the players of satirical take on a part clown show, part hip-hop concert and part Afro-futuristic lecture with Robots.

It's exploring the commodification and commercialisation of traumatic black experiences on stage and a warning that will be racially sensitive language and themes that may be upsetting.

Hello Matthew.

Very nice to see you too. Thank you.

I've come to meet Matthew in his Northland and home. The walls of his study are covered in record albums and he's surrounded by CD's, videos and books, which he's using for research into TAMBO and Bones, before he starts rehearsals in a few months time.

There are drawers and drawers of CDs here.

Here are.

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