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World Service,25 Jan 2017,9 mins

Roald Dahl's Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

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One of the best-loved children's stories of all time, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, was first published in January 1964. Roald Dahl's nephew Nicholas Logsdail was one of the few people to read the first draft. He tells Witness what he thought of it and talks about the adventures he and his uncle had together when he was a small boy. Extracts from audio book ©2014 Roald Dahl & Penguin Books Ltd. (Photo: Roald Dahl, 1971. Credit: Ronald Dumont/Daily Express/Getty Images)

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