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Who Did What Now

81. Roald Dahl - Soldier, Writer, Cheater, Spy

Who Did What Now

Katie Charlwood

Feminist, History

4.6759 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Roald Dahl has created worlds within pages that live in the minds and hearts of children (and some grown-ups) worlds that are chaotic, complicated, dark, jaunty and oft macabre, not so different from the man himself. This week, join Katie as she dives into the life of the disturbing Mr Dahl...


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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:11.0

Music Hi everybody and welcome to Who Did What Now, the history podcast that's not your history class.

0:30.9

With me, your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlot, and Reader of Books.

0:35.6

Now, before we get into anything else, I want to say thank you so much to everybody

0:39.3

who has been reading and reviewing, like on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

0:44.4

Like, I know on Apple Podcasts, if you write something in the review, it doesn't matter what it is.

0:49.5

It doesn't matter at all.

0:51.1

Like, the content itself was irrelevant, but, but like just by writing something, it like

0:56.3

pushes you up the algorithm somehow. I don't know. It's Apple Podcasts magic. But if anyone would

1:05.0

like to rate and review five stars, that would be Toots Amazing. Can't believe I just use the phrase

1:09.4

tot's amazing, but we're just going to, we're just going to let's slide, I think.

1:13.2

Yeah, cool. But, like, you can, you can see anything. You can see your favorite figure from history.

1:19.1

You can tell me your favorite color. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's all good.

1:25.2

But, yeah, I've been putting stuff together anyway sidebar for october because i'm

1:30.3

trying to get like spooky stuff sorted and my first live show in dublin is going to be next month

1:36.2

i'm just getting the details all sorted out for it and my mouth is so sore right now i've just jumped three conversations in less than a minute.

1:47.1

But yeah, my, um, my jaw is really sore because I was reading a bedtime story. And we're actually

1:53.8

reading Roll Dahl right now, uh, Danny Champion of the World. And before this, I was reading

1:58.6

David Williams, uh, Codenham Bananas. And I keep doing

2:03.4

it to myself. I keep giving characters that talk a lot, really straining voices. Because like Uncle

2:12.1

said in, um, Codenham Bananas, I made him talk like this, that really, really gruff.

2:20.3

Because he's meant to be like a cockney and I was like, my dad, when he used to smoke too much.

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