The one with Tim Minchin
The Chris Evans Show
Virgin Radio UK
4.5 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Comedian, composer and witty writer, Tim Minchin takes us through his new book, You Don't Have To Have A Dream: Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious, which is out today.
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| 0:00.0 | Enjoy great music, enjoy great interviews. |
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| 0:09.9 | Arnie, our time is up. |
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| 0:38.5 | Find interviews, live music and so much more at YouTube.com slash Virgin Radio UK. We love him for his comedy and his films, his telly, his music and his musicals, and now we love him for his book. |
| 0:40.8 | You don't have to have a dream. |
| 0:44.8 | Advice for the incrementally ambitious is out later this month. |
| 0:50.0 | So please welcome a man to talented to mention Tim Minchin. |
| 0:51.6 | Yeah, come on. |
| 0:52.2 | Good morning, Tim. |
| 0:54.0 | That might be my favourite intro ever. |
| 0:55.0 | Ever. Ever. Pretty strong. Yet another one, Vassos. Thank you very much. Very, come on. Good morning, Tim. That might be my favourite intro ever. Ever, ever. Pretty strong. |
| 0:55.5 | Yet another one, Vassos. |
| 0:57.0 | Thank you very much. Very, very strong work. Thank you for having me. Just continue what you were saying off the air there, because that's a great way to get into this. This is a book of, a collection of speeches that I've made, really. and I must admit when the idea first came up, |
| 0:52.8 | I was sort of thinking, |
| 0:53.5 | oh yeah, you could stick some speeches in a book |
| 0:55.0 | and we'll just stick it out in the market. |
| 0:56.8 | But actually, I then got really obsessed by it. And it's a beautiful book. And I'm very proud of it. But my boy, who's 15 and has absolutely no interest in anything I do. Like, he's lovely, but he's not, He doesn't care about my work. He's parked you. Yeah, but he loves this. That's, over the last few days, my wife's been saying, oh, Casper's reading the book and he's, it's blown his mind. And he keeps going, oh, dad's really, it's the first time he's ever been interested in me. And then I've talked to people who are like 40 year or so and have read it and like it as well. So that's the bit that surprised me is |
| 1:27.7 | I thought it was just sort of aimed at graduates, but people seem to like 40 year or so and have read it and like it as well. So that's the |
| 1:44.3 | bit that surprised me is I thought it was just sort of aimed at graduates, but people seem to like |
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