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She tore into him for abusing her child.
He condescendingly explained to her that she was a guest in their country and didn't understand how British schools were run.
If she didn't like his methods, she could take her kids away.
Sophie has all her kids transferred to other schools at the end of the year.
For Dahl, all these harsh experiences as a kid become fodder for his children's books.
After James and the Giant Peach comes Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and then Fantastic Mr. Fox and later the Twits and the BFG and the Witches and Matilda and so many more.
And he's incredibly disciplined in his writing routine, churning out pages a day.
The only breaks he gives himself are to write the occasional book review or to do an interview with a journalist.
It's one of these book reviews in particular, followed by maybe the worst interview any writer has ever given that turns Dahl's world upside down and forever changes his legacy.
We're going to get into all of it in our next episode.
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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