Mavis Nicholson speaks to acclaimed writer and author Roald Dahl. Recorded in 1984 If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail: archive@fremantle.com Quote: VT28791
Nobody's perfect in real life but what a fantastic author. Stunned when she asked about the dream and how his life helped write idea for his book. Don't get interviews like this on tv now. Can't go 10 seconds without fake laughter like graeme norton
@UCXdVVZN9QYY6qhXpNswohCg fuck off, that's just how things used to be, stop trying to fucking cancel every single person from the past because they didn't live to today's standards
He was a self confess perfectionist and his works are perfection. He never dumbed himself down for children and recognised that they are far superior to adults
Roald Dahl interview | Children's Author | A plus 4 | 1984 1301pm 16.5.23 a simple notion paid dividends... that they are far more clued up than you give them credit for, these wonderful children he speaks of, and it is usually brow beaten out of them, this far sightedness, by a select few... the chosen few being those who you will find at work, in your home town, in the street... i wasn't aware he was norse. and it took me some time to enjoy his work - Rik Mayall worked him into the fabric of my teens... with a george's marvellous medicine reading for the jackanory tv show.... as i pretty much ignored him during the tales of the unexpected years - even though i watched that show avidly. i never consider the credits rolling at the end of films or tv shows or when reading a book.
I remember being home sick from school, in the late 80s, and my mom brought me home from a bookstore The Twits; his first book I ever read. I loved it; was immediately hooked, and read nearly every book of his over the following 3 years. I remember being so sad when he died when I was 9.
Agree he is stand alone in his talent for children’s writing However, he did not decline a knighthood - he turned down an OBE - the reason being h wanted a knighthood. So he didn’t turn it down for any other reason than he wanted more lol
In fact he did turn down a Nighthood: www.google.com/search?q=did+roald+dahl+who+turned+down+a+knighthood&sca_esv=595026517&sxsrf=AM9HkKkrBs4fbg7Qnh7A7iFet_kn8A1Pzg%3A1704179570487&ei=creTZc6hHdmEhbIPkNmx0A8&oq=did+roah+dahlwho+turned+down+a+knighthood&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiKWRpZCByb2FoIGRhaGx3aG8gdHVybmVkIGRvd24gYSBrbmlnaHRob29kKgIIADIEECEYCkjePVDzB1jbK3AAeAOQAQKYAbwRoAH-MaoBCzItNC41LTIuOS0yuAEByAEA-AEBwgIEEAAYR8ICCBAAGIkFGKIEwgIIEAAYgAQYogTiAwQYACBBiAYBkAYI&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
P.s. the interviewer was brilliant in this. I’ve seen Mavis before. Wish she would return for more interviews. She was a natural at getting her guests to be completely at ease
I have dreamt of the future a few times. I always get dejavu when the event passes then I remember the dream. I am incredibly happy to see Roald Dahl talking about this.
I read so many of his books as a kid in the 80s and loved so many of them. It's really strange watching him give an interview. I don't know if I have a favorite book of his, but it might be James and the Giant Peach. None of his books left me feeling great at the end but I still loved them.
Roald Dahl interview | Children's Author | A plus 4 | 1984 rik mayall did dahl's tales the world of good. prior to that there was the james and the giant peach kids BBC tv adaptation... british broadcasting corporation - i was told it meant something else........ he had simple intimation and took it form there. the simple ideas are allus the best.
Dear Roald really has brought so much joy to children, I remember as a child it was The BFG and George's Marvellous Medicine that really opened up the world of literature to me, since then I've read and enjoyed so many books but it all started with Roald Dahl as before then I really could never get into the enjoyment of reading, I'd mechanically read but couldn't find the key to full emersion into a book and the world the create, so his book really for me and so many others opened a new world, and of course educationally enjoying reading is so helpful for gently furthering your understanding of language. I've gone on to have many favourite authors and books, but the two most worn books I own are still the BFG and George's Marvellous Medicine for even as an adult it's great to jump back into the safety and security and of course fantasy of the two stories that still mean so much to me. It's not always easy to get children engrossed in reading and often it takes one particular author or one particular book to click with the child reader, it to me is a real shame that the word now moves so quickly that the patience and time needed to read it often very limited. I Thank Roald so much for work and his charitable work too which is far less mentioned, the gift of being able to enjoy literature is a great gift that isn't given the credence it should in our generation. Anyhoo for the snozcumbers and the for the amazing world you opened up to so many people... Thank you Roald.
Roald Dahl was The Fantasticerest Writer ever! He invented more words tban Shakespeare and came up with marvellous stories that will hopefully last forever. David Walliams tries to imitatehis style but they're not even in the same league. Marvellous to see the talented Mavis Nicholson again doing this interview too.
And to think, just a number of says ago Puffin were going to rewrite some of the words in his books but since the backlash of it they have now backtracked!
Love how unegotistically egotistical he is 00:43 Say's it like it is. Objective. He gave the title of his next book away at the end Great interview, great interviewer. Where do you find these videos
Up the street from where I work is a place that rents out equipment, trailers and forklifts and such things. It's called Dahl's. I first learned about it when I asked my boss where he got the trailer he had that weekend from. "I got it from dolls", I thought I heard him say. "Dolls???" was my reply. "Yeah, Dahl's!" that's when the penny dropped. So there are a few Dahls/dolls around ....
Hey. About 24 years ago, I watched a movie on TV, in which a group of soldiers are staying in a forest. One of them catches a spider and encloses it in a glass bottle. The mate of the spider sees this. When the soldier goes to sleep, the other spider comes down and bites him on one of his feet. I just remember "Thames" on the screen just before the movie started. I saw "Thames" again here in this video, so I wanted to ask if you know anything about that movie. I forgot the title. And if you have the movie, please share the link.
I want to find his stores for adults, he wrote some real zingers it seems. I got to read one, about a pilot who goes down at sea in a life jacket, I think about it still.
I tutor children in creative stories and drawing and we laugh all the time. I m not a success at all as I left all that serious boring office life way back in 2004 at 46 went travelling. I lark around even now. I m 61 and they crack me up.
Roald Dahl interview | Children's Author | A plus 4 | 1984 1312pm 16.5.23 i often wondered what it was made women take notice about other chaps... being an artiste and desperately tortured with one's own personal mythos.... getting into a fight. talking bollox on you tube. doing one's own shopping.
It would be funny to think of Roald Dahl today An eccentric megastar who sings the praises of avant garde artists like Bong Joon Ho while also slagging off cancel culture & expressing his support for Brexit & #FreePalestine while giving Donald Trump several signed copies of his books
