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Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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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 5

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Episode 5

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

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Love from Boy - Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother, Episode 5

Success, marriage, family tragedy. The last letters to Sofie are eventful and dramatic.

Writing success, marriage, family tragedy. The last letters to Sofie Magdalene are eventful and dramatic..

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..

The author describes marriage to Patricia Neal, then family tragedy. And there's a final tribute to Sofie Magdalene ("Dear Mama.."), receiver of hundreds and hundreds of his missives from the age of nine..

Readers Donald Sturrock and Rory Kinnear

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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