Aaron

And every few years, somebody would contact me about the Dahl piece.

And then a few years ago, Mark Rosenblatt, who I didn't know, contacted me.

Lovely fellow.

And he said, I'd really like to write a play around this.

And I said, well, sure.

Do what you want to do.

And he interviewed me at some length and he interviewed me again.

And we met in London.

And then he sent me the plan.

He said, you have to keep this confidential.

You can't show it to anyone.

I read it and thought it was very impressive.

And then he called me and said, I think he may have said, are you sitting down?

And he said, the Royal Court Theatre want to stage it.

And John Lithgow has got hold of the script and he would love to play Roald Dahl.

And that's what happened.

And I was at the first night at the Royal Court Theatre, and it was a very strange experience sitting there.

It was with my cousin, I remember, sitting there and hearing your name, because I'm not in it physically, it's my voice.

It was a lovely actor called Richard Hope who played me very accurately.

And my cousin said, he's got you, he's got you.