Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist

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Geoffrey Whitehead

Sarah Badel

Nickolas Grace

Nicholas Boulton

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Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist: The Butler

The Butler

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Charles Dance tells a comic tale by the master of the bizarre. With Nickolas Grace.

Wealthy, northern businessman George Cleaver must acquire a love of fine wines to get on in society. Stars Geoffrey Whitehead.

Meet George Cleaver, the Sausage King of the North, who sells his business and moves to London in order to enter society. He employs a butler, Tibbs, to help him to do this. 

Tibbs explains that it’s vital Cleaver learns as much as he can about fine wines - and, to this end, Tibbs sets about buying rare and expensive vintages and educating his employer. 

Before long, Cleaver feels he no longer needs his butler’s advice. 

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

Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan

Storyteller………..Charles Dance
George Cleaver….Geoffrey Whitehead
Mrs Cleaver……...Sarah Badel
Tibbs……………..Nickolas Grace
Lord Dungeness….Nicholas Boulton

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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