(Bonus Episode) Giant: A Conversation with Playwright Mark Rosenblatt
The Secret World of Roald Dahl
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Mark Rosenblatt had never written a play before Giant, his portrait of Roald Dahl. Now it's the most talked about, best reviewed show on Broadway. Aaron sits down with Mark for a wide ranging conversation. Two writers who've spent a lot of time wrestling with the same complicated author, comparing notes.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey there, it's Aaron. |
| 0:07.0 | Sorry you haven't heard from me a little while. |
| 0:09.0 | We've been working really hard on a couple bonus episodes, so we can't wait to share. |
| 0:13.0 | Today is an exciting one for me, because I get to sit down with the writer behind a huge new Broadway play, all about Roald Dahl. |
| 0:23.2 | Now, bear with me for a second here. |
| 0:27.8 | When I was young, the movie's Armageddon and Deep Impact came out within a couple months of each other. |
| 0:29.1 | Both were big studio movies with pretty much the exact same premise about a space object |
| 0:34.0 | coming to annihilate Earth. |
| 0:36.0 | Very weird. |
| 0:37.2 | A few years later, two movies about Truman |
| 0:39.5 | Capote's experience writing In Cold Blood were released back-to-back, even though In Cold Blood had |
| 0:44.9 | come out 40 years earlier. This strangely happens a bunch. There were two big movies about volcanoes |
| 0:51.2 | one year, for no apparel reason. Both DreamWorks and Pixar came |
| 0:54.8 | out with movies about ants, six weeks apart one fall. And they were competing Pinocchio |
| 0:59.3 | adaptations not long ago. I don't have a great explanation for why this happens. Other than the |
| 1:04.7 | writers are all sort of drinking from the same tap to some extent, consuming the same news, |
| 1:10.0 | having the same fears and anxieties about the world, and sometimes we arrive at the same tap to some extent, consuming the same news, having the same fears and anxieties |
| 1:11.6 | about the world, and sometimes we arrive at the same place, at the same time, without ever speaking |
| 1:17.2 | to one another. |
| 1:18.1 | All of this is to say, I sort of hope this podcast about Roald Dahl was going to be the place |
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