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Revolting Rhymes & Marvellous Music

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Musical work devised by the Magnard Ensemble in partnership with the Roald Dahl Literary Estate and Marvellous Children’s Charity
Credits:
- “Little Red Riding Hood”
  - Composed by Paul Patterson
  - Adapted by Donald Sturrock
- “Dirty Beasts”
  - Composted by Martin Butler
- “The Three Little Pigs”
  - Composed by Paul Patterson
- Musicians
  - Suzannah Watson, flute/piccolo
  - Mana Shibata, oboe
  - Joseph Shiner, clarinet/bass clarinet
  - Catriona McDermid, bassoon
  - Jonathan Farey, horn
  - Suling King, piano
- Narrator: Rebecca Kenny
Performances:
- World premiere at Wells Cathedral School, Somerset, 2013

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The Magnard Ensemble with Rebecca Kenny are delighted to present their debut release Revolting Rhymes and Marvellous Music – an album continuing the celebration of the Roald Dahl centenary with suitably innovative and humorously engaging compositions. The featured composers expertly weave Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes into Marvellous Music in a programme that aims to thrill all who listen from children to adults, and novices to musical connoisseurs.

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: Orchid Classics, 2017

Roald Dahl’s Whoppsy-Whiffling Joke Book

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First edition: Puffin Books, 2018.
Illustrated by: Quentin Blake
Also published as:
- Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Joke Book
- Roald Dahl’s Whizzpopping Joke Book

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Description

Roald Dahl is known for his humor! This joke book is an ideal companion to his beloved novels.

Roald Dahl’s Whoppsy-Whiffling Joke Book is a collection of hundreds of great jokes that would make even the Trunchbull laugh! Inspired by Roald Dahl’s wonderful world, these gigglesome gags are guaranteed to raise a chuckle from human beans young and old.

CONTENT NOTE: The jokes in this book may cause reader to become the embodiment of the crying-laughing emoji. Side effects include but are not limited to stomach pains, tears of joy, falling off chairs, and flailing.

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: Puffin, 2018

Lui (#2)

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Published: January 1964

Contains:
- “Taste”

Peter Cook & Co

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One-off sketch comedy TV special produced by LWT in the UK
What Dahl Did: provided inspiration for a “Tales of the Much As We Expected” sketch
Program Information:
- Originally aired on September 14, 1980
- Cast and crew:
  - Directed by Paul Smith
  - Written by Peter Cook and Bernard McKenna
  - Produced by Humphrey Barclay and Paul Smith
  - Starring: Peter Cook, John Cleese, Beryl Reid, Rowan Atkinson, Terry Jones, Paula Wilcox, and Robert Longden

Description

Peter Cook & Co was a one-off sketch comedy special produced by LWT and aired in the UK on September 14, 1980. It included a sketch where Cook portrayed Roald Dahl in a Tales of the Unexpected parody called “Tales of the Much As We Expected.”

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[Tales of the Unexpected credit sequence, but changed to “Tales of the Much As We Expected”]

Peter Cook as Dahl, seated before a fire:

“Ronald was a pretty ordinary name, and until I dropped my ‘n’ nobody took a blind bit of notice. ‘Roald’ makes me sound mysterious and important. If Ronald Biggs
had called himself ‘Roald’ like me, he could have got away with daylight robbery. Like many intensely private people, I’ve always had a burning desire to be on television so the public could recognise me in the street and I could pretend to be upset. [fire spreads to carpet and begins to expand] I’m often asked what it is that sparks up my ideas, what fires my imagination. In tonight’s story we see how a desire to be famous causes an author to lose more than his head, more than his reputation, more than life itself! [shouts as he escapes]

Ellery Queen’s Mystère-Magazine (France – #112)

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Published: May 1957

Contains:
- “The Way Up to Heaven”

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The Grand High Witch’s Speech to the Society of English Witches

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Musical work commissioned by Roald Dahl Foundation in 2008
Composed by English composer Jamie Brown
Arranged for soprano and large ensemble
Performances:
- World premiere at Roald Dahl Gala Concert, King’s Place, London, December 2008
  - Conducted by Peter Ash
  - Performed by Dame Joan Rodgers and the Taliesin Ensemble

Based on:
- The Witches

Revolting Rhymes

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Aired on December 26-27, 2016
What Dahl Did: wrote original children’s book Revolting Rhymes
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- Revolting Rhymes

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Based on the much-loved children’s book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, Revolting Rhymes takes the classic fairy tales of Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, The Three Little Pigs, Jack & the Beanstalk and Cinderella, then mixes them together and serves them with a mischievous twist.

The first film sees young Snow White and Red Riding Hood become lifelong friends as Snow White takes on the might of the wicked Queen, whilst Red is called home to deal with a pair of hungry wolves – one who’s eaten her grandma and then dressed in her clothes, while the other can’t help himself from eating some unsuspecting pigs.

In the second film Jack grows up with his heart set on next-door neighbour Cindy. She has her eye turned by the eligible Prince at the ball, and Jack gets distracted by a giant beanstalk at the bottom of his garden. Will they find true love?

Overarching both films, our narrator, a big bad wolf, has all the answers as well as a story of his own to tell.