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Drama: Roald Dahl: Going Solo

Patrick Malahide

John Heffernan

Joanna Van Kampen

Eric Abrefa

Brian Protheroe

Clare Perkins

Elizabeth Bennett

Nick Underwood

James Lailey

Tom Forrister

Sam Rix

Sean Baker

Jason Barnett

Lucy Catherine

Roald Dahl

Helen Perry

Drama on 4: Roald Dahl: Going Solo: Episode 1

Roald Dahl: Going Solo

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Roald Dahl: Going Solo, Episode 1

Celebrating his centenary year, a dramatisation of Dahl's autobiographical adventures.

Celebrating the centenary year of his birth, a dramatization of Dahl's autobiographical adventures beginning as he sets sail for Africa, aged 22. Narrated by Patrick Malahide.

To celebrate the centenary year of his birth, a full dramatization of Roald Dahl's gripping autobiographical overseas adventure. 

Beginning aboard the SS Mantola, Dahl sets sail for Africa at the tender age of 22. He experiences the remnants of colonial British life, filled with eccentric characters, and is thrown into a world as bizarre and surprising as any you will find in his fiction. 

"Life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones."

Stationed in Tanzania, Dahl is faced with the excitement of the wild; lions carrying off women in their mouths; fatal green mambas captured by snake men. But his savannah-sun-drenched life is interrupted when World War II erupts. Dahl is ordered to round up the German inhabitants of Dar es Salaam and experiences first-hand the horror of war. 

Patrick Malahide provides the voice of Dahl in a colourful adaptation by Lucy Catherine.

Dramatised by Lucy Catherine

Directed by Helen Perry
A BBC Cymru/Wales Production.

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Dramatisation of Roald Dahl's autobiographical adventures

Celebrating the centenary year of his birth, a dramatisation of Dahl's autobiographical adventures. Adapted by Lucy Catherine and directed by Helen Perry

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