EXCLUSIVE: If your Willy Wonkas out of your BFGs, iHeartPodcasts and Think about Leisure have the podcast documentary for you.
The pair have created The Secret World of Roald Dahl, a doc podcast collection that peels again the key spy lifetime of the beloved kids’s creator, revealing “a life far stranger than fiction.”
The primary episode is dropping on Monday (January 19). Created and hosted by Aaron Tracy, the story will discover how the creator of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility’, ‘The BFG’, ‘Matilda’ and plenty of different traditional kids’s books spent a interval of his life as a spy for MI6, alongside together with his private relationships, inventive failures and different experiences that formed him.
The podcast is the sixth to come back out of a pact between iHeartPodcasts and Think about, following Hey Isaac, Unf**ing the Future, Large Sugar, The Tao of Muhammad Ali and Obscurum. One other collection might be unveiled shortly, we hear. Nathan Kloke exec produces The Secret World of Roald Dahl alongside Kara Welker for Think about Audio. iHearPodcasts will distribute, with episodes dropping weekly.
Dahl was born throughout World Struggle I in 1916 and died eight a long time later in 1990, throughout which era he had turn out to be one of many world’s most beloved kids’s authors. He was additionally married to The Day the Earth Stood Nonetheless actress Patricia Neal, having 5 kids collectively earlier than divorcing.
A lot of Dahl’s books have been tailored as movies, with Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp each taking part in the chocolaltier Will Wonka in Hollywood variations of ‘Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Manufacturing facility.’ Timothée Chalamet performed the character in a 2023 movie in regards to the character’s life.
Different books, equivalent to ‘The BFG’, ‘James and the Big Peach’ and ‘Matilda’ have been additionally tailored for display. Nonetheless, it’s his life away from the pen that Tracey will discover.
“Roald Dahl performed an enormous position in our childhoods, however most individuals don’t know he lived one of many noisiest lives of his century,” stated Tracy. “He was a fighter pilot, a British spy for MI6, a struggling screenwriter, the husband of an Oscar winner, a author for The New Yorker, and an novice neuroscientist who saved hundreds of lives earlier than he lastly discovered his voice as a kids’s creator at 45. iHeart and Think about have been dream collaborators to assist reveal these hidden chapters of Dahl’s life and discover the difficult, controversial particular person behind the tales.”
“All of us grew up on Roald Dahl’s books over right here, and the chance to work with Aaron Tracy within the podcast area to dig into Dahl’s life was simply too good to be true,” added Kloke, govt producer for Think about Audio. “Aaron connects with Dahl throughout his work, his humanity and his flaws. It’s a fantastic piece of labor from a really proficient documentarian.”
