Matt Lucas: Creative discovery, grief, and tape recorders | Happy Place Studios

Are you approaching the festive season without loved ones? Comedian, presenter, and author Matt Lucas has been thinking a lot about what it’s like to be grieving around this time of year.
In this chat with Fearne, Matt talks through some of the personal experiences that led him to write a children’s book about a boy who’s approaching Christmas without his mum. They also share that creativity has the ability to pull them out of depressions.
Plus, using parts of his own life as examples, Matt explains why we might need to think more about the prison population, and why it’s important to understand the back story of what it means to be gay in the UK.
Matt’s musical children’s book, The Boy Who Slept Through Christmas, is out now.
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I LOVE LOVE his work!! As an American I had to find him on KZbin. Glad I did!’

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Thank you for this!

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What a lovely Interview, such a talented, lovely man. Thank you

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What a monumental talent!

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Such an interesting, talented, humble human being.

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I loved Why Don’t You !!!

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I love this ❤