Aaron Tracy

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The Twilight Gazebo.

Sunset Gardens.

Twilight Gazebo.

What's next?

Dead Man's Grove?

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Throughout this series, we've covered Dahl's monumental literary successes.

But here's the thing.

For countless children around the world, their first taste of Dahl's stories came not from turning pages, but from watching screens.

And all of these films and TV shows were created through the work of the screenwriters and directors who adapted Dahl's stories.

These adaptations create a whole new dimension to his storytelling legacy.

That's what we're diving into today.

For My Heart Podcast, Imagine Entertainment, and Parallax, I'm Aaron Tracy, and this is The Secret World of Roald Dahl.

To start, let me take you back to the early 1960s.

We're at a starry Hollywood party in a giant, opulent producer's house in the hills.

One of those suffocating parties where everyone's on top of each other and thick cigarette smoke gives all the faces a hazy sheen.

Roald Dahl lurks in the corner, glass in hand, rattling his ice cubes, keeping himself apart.