Hello and welcome to Sentimental Garbage, the podcast where we kindly ask you to keep Box 5 vacant for our personal use.

My name is Caroline, and if you do not stop things happening, then this thing will not happen.

Joining me is The Angel of Music herself.

It's Rebecca Kwong.

Hello, thanks for having me.

Hello, the Angel of Music.

Guide and Garden.

Thank you for introducing me to this work.

Did I introduce you to this work?

No, you didn't.

Actually, my sister is like a mega fan,

and she's been like telling me to get into this for years. And I just avoided it for whatever reason. But can I, if I can sort of briefly share with the listeners what intrigued me so much about getting you to talk about this specifically is that like we met for lunch for like the first time in like November last year and you were like

listen I've been in London a couple of days and all I can think about is the Phantom of the Opera

and I was like oh I don't really yeah okay sure and then you said something that I've been I've been chewing over ever since and it really fascinated me then you said something that I've been chewing over ever since. It really fascinated me. And you said something to the effect of, you know, I've been really blessed with my career. I've been really blessed with my love life. I love my husband. I love my, my, my, you know, my books, my teaching everything. And it, but I'm so privileged in those things that I feel like it's been a long time since I felt

real raw yearning and that you sat in the theatre and that you felt this kind of,

this like wave of yearning come upon you that sort of like transformed you.

Like I want you to talk about that a little bit, because that I've just been

chewing over for so long. I think yearning is not quite the word. I think the word is really just

raw, horny desire. Because it's not so much that I have a lot of needs that I think people work towards in their 20s met.

I'm married to my husband who I adore, so I don't really struggle my love life.

I'm doing well in my chosen career, so it's not like I have these big dreams and this frustration

and not achieving them.

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