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Roald Dahl

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Adaptations of hilarious and horrific fantasy tales by the classic children's author.

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Roald Dahl: Kiss Kiss: The Landlady

The Landlady

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Roald Dahl, Kiss Kiss, The Landlady

Charles Dance narrates a dark tale by the master of the bizarre. With Doreen Mantle.

Young Billy finds nice digs when sent to work in Bath. But his landlady has a strange love of taxidermy. Stars Doreen Mantle.

Meet young Billy Weaver, who has just arrived in Bath to take up a new job. He books into a curiously deserted B&B. The landlady, who inhabits a sitting room filled with stuffed animals, is welcoming but odd. Wondering if he's her only guest, Billy checks the register and sees two strangely familiar names. 

Taking tea with her later, Billy suddenly remembers reading in the papers that both her former guests disappeared in mysterious circumstances. The landlady tells Billy that, like him, each was a beautiful young man whom she didn't want to leave....

Five classic tales by Roald Dahl starring Charles Dance as the urbane Storyteller and Doreen Mantle as the Landlady. 

Taken from the anthology, Kiss, Kiss. Bizarre and amusing by turns, these black comedies are justly famous for Dahl's surprise endings. 

Storyteller........Charles Dance
Landlady.........Doreen Mantle
Billy Weaver.....James Joyce
Mr Greenslade...John Rowe

Director: David Blount

A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in April 2011.

Roald Dahl: Kiss Kiss

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Charles Dance is the urbane storyteller for five classic tales by Roald Dahl.

Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane storyteller in dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl

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