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Book of the Week: Love from Boy - Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother

Rory Kinnear

Donald Sturrock

Roald Dahl

Katrin Williams

Duncan Minshull

Book of the Week: Love from Boy - Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother: Episode 4

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Love from Boy - Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother

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Back in Bucks, then out to Washinton DC, where Roald Dahl begins a story called Gremlins.

Back in Bucks, then out to Washinton DC, where Roald Dahl is also writing stories. He soon begins one called Gremlins.

In the centenary year of his birth, Roald Dahl's letters to his mother are newly collected by Donald Sturrock and abridged for radio by Katrin Williams. The author's words to Sofie Magdalene spanned decades..

In America during the war, he pens a certain story called 'Gremlins', about the little creatures that run amok over all things mechanical. This comes to the notice of Walt Disney.

Readers Rory Kinnear and Donald Sturrock.

Producer Duncan Minshull.

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Dahl's letters to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, abridged for radio by Katrin Williams

In the centenary year of his birth, Dahl's letters to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, are newly collected by Donald Sturrock and abridged for radio by Katrin Williams.

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