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Aaron Tracy and Roald Dahl's Dangerous Double Life

Mar 11, 2026 · 40m

<p>Aaron Tracy joins to talk about <em>The Secret World of Roald Dahl</em>, his podcast about the children's author as war spy, improvised medical inventor, and world-class fabulist with a vicious streak. The conversation gets into Dahl's improbable second act as a children's writer, the darkness that made books like <em>James and the Giant Peach</em> and <em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</em> endure, and the harder question of how to reckon with his explicit anti-Semitism. Also, a look at why Ronald Reagan …

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