Roald Dahl: Children's Author and Secret Agent

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today author Roald Dahl is best-known for his prolific writing career -- but, as it turns out, he lived an entirely different life before he ever put pen to paper to create children's stories. Learn more about Roald Dahl's earlier life as a fighter ace, a

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	So, there is a ton of stuff they don't want you to know.
0:06.1	Yeah, like does the US government really have alien technology?
0:09.5	Or what about the future of AI?
0:11.4	What happens when computers actually learn to think?
0:14.3	Could there be a serial killer in your town?
0:17.2	From UFOs to psychic powers and government cover-ups, from unsolved crimes to the bleeding
0:22.3	edge of science, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:26.2	Listen to stuff they don't want you to know on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever
0:30.9	you find your favorite shows.
0:36.7	Alphabet Boys is a podcast that takes you inside undercover investigations.
0:41.1	In the second season, we've got an alphabet soup with the DEA, the CIA, and the FBI
0:46.5	all mixed up in the same case.
0:48.4	So, you do personal security all over the world and you have somebody call you and say,
0:53.8	can you get grenades and guns for this guy in Colombia?
0:58.7	It's a mystery wrapped around an international arm steel.
1:01.4	Alphabet Boys, on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:07.8	At the Planet Money Podcast, we ask questions like, who decides when we're in a recession?
1:13.4	Why does every insurance company seem to have a mascot?
1:17.1	Do food expiration dates even matter?
1:20.1	I'm Jeff Guo, co-host of NPR's Planet Money, where we bring you stories about people,
1:25.3	about weird schemes and wonderful mistakes, to show you how the economy actually works.
1:31.4	Listen to Planet Money from NPR on the iHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.