The Complete Tales of the Unexpected

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Information

  • Published by:
    • BBC Radio, 2002
  • Read by: Geoffrey Palmer, Joanna David, Tom Hollander, Patricia Routledge, Joanna Lumley, William Hootkins

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More Tales of the Unexpected

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Information

  • Published by:
    • BBC Radio, 2001
  • Read by: Tom Hollander, William Hootkins, Geoffrey Palmer
  • Runtime: 2 hrs 20 minutes
  • Includes:
    • “My Lady Love, My Dove”
    • “The Landlady”
    • “Poison”
    • “The Sound Machine”
    • “Georgy Porgy”
    • “Vengeance is Mine Inc.”
    • “Mr. Botibol”
    • “The Hitchhiker”

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Tales of the Unexpected

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Information

  • Published by:
    • BBC Radio, 2001
  • Read by: Geoffrey Palmer, Joanna David, Tom Hollander, Patricia Routledge, and Joanna Lumley
  • Runtime: 3hrs
  • Includes:
    • “Taste” read by Geoffrey Palmer
    • “Lamb to the Slaughter” read by Joanna David
    • “Dip in the Pool” read by Geoffrey Palmer
    • “The Way Up to Heaven” read by Patricia Routledge
    • “Neck”​ read by Tom Hollander
    • “Parson’s Pleasure” read by Geoffrey Palmer
    • “Edward the Conqueror” read by Joanna David
    • “Nunc Dimittis”​ read by Geoffrey Palmer
    • “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”​ read by Joanna Lumley

Reviews

  • “Recent audio books” by Charlotte Moore from the February 10, 2001 issue of The Spectator (UK) (read online

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Four Rooms

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Information

  • Produced in 1995
  • What Dahl Did: wrote original short story “Man From the South,” which inspired the last of the four segments in this anthology film

Trailer


Plot Description

The story is set in the fictional Hotel Mon Signor in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. Tim Roth plays Ted, the bellhop and main character in the frame story, whose first night on the job consists of four very different encounters with various hotel guests.


Poster


Soundtrack Album Cover