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The theme of the Toy Show was ‘the wonderful world of Roald Dahl’ – let’s take a closer look at that world.

“A WRITER OF fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not,” said Roald Dahl.As was shown in the theme of this year’s Late Late Toy Show, Dahl has created some wonderful characters, events and words.

He makes ‘frobscottle’, a fizzy drink that makes you swear He gives the Queen of England nightmares about the British empire Miss Trunchbull is the principal of Matilda’s school. Who is she revealed to be later in the book? A misunderstood person A second-hand car salesperson She is thrown down a chute after trying to catch a squirrel and is catagorised as a bad nut She gets catapulted out of the factory in a glass elevator True or False: Roald Dahl flew a fighter plane in World War 2 that was shot down, was a spy for MI6, and wrote the screenplay for the Bond film You Only Live Twice.

 

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