The Willy Wonka Secret: Candy Bar Advertising
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Apostrophe Podcast Network
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
From our Season 12 Archives, one of our favourites.
This week, we look at candy bar advertising. Millions are spent marketing candy bars every year. We'll talk about how the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was owned by a candy company. And we'll reveal whether it really was Phil Collins inside that gorilla costume in that famous Cadbury Dairy Milk commercial.
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| 1:16.0 | You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. When writer Roald Dahl was a young schoolboy in England, he lived near a Cadbury chocolate factory. |
| 1:40.6 | Every once in a while, Cadbury would come up with a new chocolate concoction |
| 1:44.6 | and give out free samples to the kids to see if they liked them. |
| 1:49.6 | That memory stayed with Dahl, and years later in 1964, |
| 1:54.7 | he published a book titled Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. |
| 1:59.4 | Seven years later, that book was adapted into a movie. |
| 2:03.4 | It was titled, |
| 2:05.0 | Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. |
| 2:08.0 | So, why was the title changed? |
| 2:11.9 | Well, that's a very interesting question. |
| 2:17.4 | If you've ever watched Willie Wonka in the Chocolate Factory, you may interesting question. |
| 2:20.7 | If you've ever watched Willy Wonka in the Chocolate Factory, |
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