Aaron Tracy
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And without Neil fully back at work, Dahl has to become the breadwinner.
Dahl tries to figure out how he can start making some real money.
Dahl has always gotten a lot of pleasure out of making up stories for his kids.
And with Olivia and Theo's accidents, his kids have been on his mind nonstop for several years now.
He decides to try an experiment.
He takes one of his old stories for adults, William and Mary, about a troubled marriage, and more or less rewrites it for kids.
It's a strange idea for a children's story, but it's about to become about a million times more successful in that form than it ever was for adults.
He does the same thing with another one of his adult stories, 50,000 Frogskins.
And again, it becomes a classic.
It took Dahl going through everything you just heard with his wife and especially with his children for him to finally find his voice.
Dahl is about to get everything he's ever wanted, become one of the richest, most famous, most successful men in the world.
We'll hear all of that in our next episode.
And we'll also hear how he basically does everything he possibly can to screw it all up.
The Secret World of Roald Dahl
Executive Producers Nathan Clokey, Cara Welker, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, and Aaron Tracy.
Additional voice performances and recreation by Mark Henry Phillips and Eleven Labs.
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