Mr Buggage and his secretary Miss Tottle are hard at work in the back room of his book shop in London's Charing Cross Road.

It soon becomes clear that they are running a most successful business - but the fortune they are amassing is not from the sale of books.

Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in five classic tales by Roald Dahl.

Bizarre and amusing by turns, these dark comedies are justly famous for their surprise endings, and for their rogues gallery of crooks, cheats and schemers.

Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan

The Storyteller …. Charles Dance
Mr Buggage …. Toby Jones
Miss Tottle …. Celia Imrie
Mrs Northcote …. Jean Trend
Mr Northcote …. Richard Attlee

Director: David Blount

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2016. Show less