Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist

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Toby Jones

Celia Imrie

Jean Trend

Richard Attlee

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Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist: The Bookseller

The Bookseller

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Charles Dance tells a darkly comic tale by the master of the bizarre. With Toby Jones.

London bookseller, Mr Buggage and secretary, Miss Tottle hatch an ingenious way to make money. Stars Toby Jones and Celia Imrie.

Mr Buggage and his secretary Miss Tottle are hard at work in the back room of his book shop in London's Charing Cross Road. 

It soon becomes clear that they are running a most successful business - but the fortune they are amassing is not from the sale of books.

Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in five classic tales by Roald Dahl. 

Bizarre and amusing by turns, these dark comedies are justly famous for their surprise endings, and for their rogues gallery of crooks, cheats and schemers.

Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan

The Storyteller …. Charles Dance
Mr Buggage …. Toby Jones
Miss Tottle …. Celia Imrie
Mrs Northcote …. Jean Trend
Mr Northcote …. Richard Attlee

Director: David Blount

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2016.

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Charles Dance is the urbane Storyteller in adaptations of five dark 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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