Jason Biggs

But did you know he was also a spy?

Was this before he wrote his stories?

It must have been.

Our new podcast series, The Secret World of Roald Dahl, is a wild journey through the hidden chapters of his extraordinary, controversial life.

His job was literally to seduce the wives of powerful Americans.

What?

And he was really good at it.

You probably won't believe it either.

I'm telling you, the guy was a spy.

Did you know Dahl got cozy with the Roosevelts, played poker with Harry Truman, and had a long affair with a congresswoman?

And then he took his talents to Hollywood, where he worked alongside Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock, before writing a hit James Bond film.

How did this secret agent wind up as the most successful children's author ever?

And what darkness from his covert past seeped into the stories we read as kids?

The true story is stranger than anything he ever wrote.

Listen to The Secret World of Roald Dahl on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

He'd long outlived the success of hard-R comedies, popping up on the Netflix Defining Orange is the New Black, voicing Leonardo on the animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV show, and living within the Kevin Smith view, Askewniverse.

Well, hello, everybody.

How are you guys?

Sure.

You know, one does.