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Speaker 1: You know Roald Dahl, the writer who thought of Willy Wonka,

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Speaker 1: Matilda and the BFG. But did you know he was

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Speaker 1: also a spy? Was this before he wrote his stories?

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Speaker 1: It must have been. Our new podcast series, The Secret

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Speaker 1: World of Roald Dahl is a wild journey through the

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Speaker 1: hidden chapters of his extraordinary, controversial life. His job was

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Speaker 1: literally to seduce the wives of powerful Americans? What and

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Speaker 1: he was really good at it? Okay, I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's true. I'm telling you. Did you know Dahl got

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Speaker 1: cozy with the Roosevelts, played poker with Harry Truman, and

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Speaker 1: had a long affair with a congresswoman. And then he

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Speaker 1: took his talents to Hollywood, where he worked alongside Walt

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Speaker 1: Disney and Alfred Hitchcock before writing a hit James Bond

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Speaker 1: film informed by his experience as an mi sex. How

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Speaker 1: did this secret agent wind up as the most successful

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Speaker 1: children's author ever And what darkness from his covert past

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Speaker 1: seeped into the stories we read as kids. The true

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Speaker 1: story is stranger than anything he ever wrote. Listen to

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Speaker 1: the Secret World of Roald Dahl starting January nineteenth on the

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