Hello and welcome to Seriously with me Fermi Martin.

2016 is the centenary of Roldahl's birth and as part of the love to read campaign

the BBC is celebrating Roldahl's life with a series of documentaries and dramas.

You can find the full listing at the Radio 4 website, but here's something

to wet your dull appetite.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers, even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine.

They still think that he or she is wonderful.

Occasionally one comes across parents who don't know how wonderful their child will turn out to be.

Mr and Mrs Dar were two such parents.

They lived in Wales and a hundred years ago they had a son called Ruald

who would come to be known as one of the world's greatest storytellers,

who'd write stories that would be loved by millions and millions of people

and told and re-told all around the world

in books and films and theatres and on radio programs like this one.

So to celebrate what would have been his hundredth birthday,

here he is, my grandfather,

telling his own story in his own words. Ruald in an interview on Norwegian TV station an RK.

Mr and Mrs Dahl came from Norway,

so Ruald grew up speaking Norwegian.

That is when he began to talk at all.

Norwegian was my first language because I had a Norwegian nurse and I was a bit backward.

I didn't speak one word until I was two and just before my mother was going to take me to the doctor to see what kind of brain damage I had.

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