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The Essay Podcast

The Essay

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Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

The Essay: Roald Dahl at 100

The Essay: Roald Dahl at 100: Episode 3: Laura Dockrill on Dahl's heroine Matilda

Roald Dahl at 100

Episode 3

Episode 3: Laura Dockrill on Dahl's heroine Matilda

Laura Dockrill on Dahl's heroine Matilda

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Performance poet Laura Dockrill remembers growing up with Dahl's heroine Matilda.

Performance poet Laura Dockrill remembers growing up with Dahl's heroine Matilda and discovering that it was okay to be different.

In the centenary year of Roald Dahl's birth Laura Dockrill remembers growing up with Matilda and discovering through Dahl's heroine that it was OK to be different. Laura Dockrill is a writer, illustrator and performance poet. She is the creator of Darcy Burdock, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2014. 

Written and read by Laura Dockrill
Produced by Justine Willett.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

A celebration of the storyteller's work and legacy ahead of the centenary of his birth

A celebration of the storyteller's work and legacy ahead of the centenary of his birth in September 2016

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