Boy & Going Solo: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas Audiobook (Free)

Two fresh BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Roald Dahl’s gripping autobiographical tales.

These two compelling adaptations, based on Roald Dahl’s real-life stories of his of his boyhood and youthful overseas adventures, enjoy his remarkable life and commemorate his genius.

Son Dahl’s youth was one of excitement, wonder, terror and sadness. From his desire for the local sweetshop to the Great Mouse Storyline, the horrors of boarding college, the obnoxious Boazers and his period being a about Guy & Going Single: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas chocolate taster for Cadbury’s, we hear of the extraordinary occasions that formed him and inspired his bestselling books.

Going Solo Establishing sail for Africa over the SS Montola, aged 22, Dahl can be plunged into a new world of eccentric colonial characters. In Tanzania he loves life in the savannah, encountering lions and lethal mambas – however when Globe War II breaks out, and he must round up the Germans in Dar sera Salaam, he experiences the brutality of war. As he leaves the bush behind and requires towards the skies as an RAF pilot, many fascinating adventures and harmful missions will ensue before he finally makes his in the past home…

Starring Patrick Malahide as the voice of Dahl, these colourful dramatisations will carry you away into worlds just as amazing, strange and memorable as the ones in his acclaimed fiction. Duration: 3 hours approx