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Looking for the perfect Easter activity? Enter the world of James and the Giant Peach, and head off on an incredible insect adventure.
Now you can join James, The Centipede, The Earthworm and the rest of the gang in this bug-packed journey through the world of insects.
Perfect for Easter holiday activities; get your hands marvellously muddy and find out all the whacky and wondrous facts about your favourite creepy-crawlies!
Based on Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach, this phizz-whizzing activity book is packed with brilliant bugs and fun activities to try at home, like making your own ant farm and building your very own bug hotel.
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The Magnard Ensemble with Rebecca Kenny are delighted to present their debut release Revolting Rhymes and Marvellous Music – an album continuing the celebration of the Roald Dahl centenary with suitably innovative and humorously engaging compositions. The featured composers expertly weave Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes into Marvellous Music in a programme that aims to thrill all who listen from children to adults, and novices to musical connoisseurs.
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Roald Dahl is known for his humor! This joke book is an ideal companion to his beloved novels.
Roald Dahl’s Whoppsy-Whiffling Joke Book is a collection of hundreds of great jokes that would make even the Trunchbull laugh! Inspired by Roald Dahl’s wonderful world, these gigglesome gags are guaranteed to raise a chuckle from human beans young and old.
CONTENT NOTE: The jokes in this book may cause reader to become the embodiment of the crying-laughing emoji. Side effects include but are not limited to stomach pains, tears of joy, falling off chairs, and flailing.
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Peter Cook & Co was a one-off sketch comedy special produced by LWT and aired in the UK on September 14, 1980. It included a sketch where Cook portrayed Roald Dahl in a Tales of the Unexpected parody called “Tales of the Much As We Expected.”
[Tales of the Unexpected credit sequence, but changed to “Tales of the Much As We Expected”]
Peter Cook as Dahl, seated before a fire:
“Ronald was a pretty ordinary name, and until I dropped my ‘n’ nobody took a blind bit of notice. ‘Roald’ makes me sound mysterious and important. If Ronald Biggs
had called himself ‘Roald’ like me, he could have got away with daylight robbery. Like many intensely private people, I’ve always had a burning desire to be on television so the public could recognise me in the street and I could pretend to be upset. [fire spreads to carpet and begins to expand] I’m often asked what it is that sparks up my ideas, what fires my imagination. In tonight’s story we see how a desire to be famous causes an author to lose more than his head, more than his reputation, more than life itself! [shouts as he escapes]
