Going Solo

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Things start off merely bizarre: Dahl lying in his bunk on a ship when a figure of a man “naked as a jungle ape” runs past, soon joined by the figure of an equally nude woman. Transforming this imagery into full-scale realm of the macabre is that the two figures turn out to be a Major in the British military and his wife! From there, the story of Dahl’s sojourn in Africa first as an employee for Shell Oil and then as a member of the Royal Air Force becomes the very stuff of fiction. He witnesses what is later described as an event unparalleled in the history of all who heard about it: a woman being dragged away from a village clutched in the jaws of a lion who not only survived the experience, but walked away virtually unscathed. After establishing himself as a writer for adults, Roald Dahl began writing children’s stories in 1960 while living in England with his family. His first stories were written as entertainment for his own children, to whom many of his books are dedicated. Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” – The New York Times The next three days, 17, 18 and 19 April 1941, are a little blurred in my memory. The fourth day, 20 April, is not blurred at all. My Log Book records that from Eleusis aerodrome Some people do not realize that although a Hurricane had eight guns in its wings, those guns were all immobile. You did not aim the guns, you aimed the plane. The guns themselves were carefully sighted and tested beforehand on the ground so that the bullets from each gun would converge at a point about 150 yards ahead. Thus, using your reflector-sight, you aimed the plane at the target and pressed the button. To aim accurately in this way requires skilful flying, especially as you are usually in a steep turn and going very fast when the moment comes.

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Description: To celebrate the centenary year of his birth, a full dramatization of Roald Dahl's gripping autobiographical overseas adventure.

As a young man, Roald Dahl's adventures took him from London to East Africa, until the Second World War began and he became a RAF pilot.

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So we now had seven half-serviceable Hurricanes left in Greece, and with these we were expected to give air cover to the entire British Expeditionary Force which was about to be evacuated along the coast. The whole thing was a ridiculous farce. I wandered over to my tent. There was a canvas washbasin outside the tent, one of those folding things that stand on three wooden legs, and David Coke was bending over it, sloshing water on his face. He was naked except for a small towel round his waist and his skin was very white. ‘So you made it,’ he said, not looking up. You'll read stories of whizzing through the air in a Tiger Moth Plane, encounters with deadly green mambas and hungry lions, and the terrible crash that led him to storytelling.

Then last night I had to go into his room at 10:00 and take the book away from him so he would stop reading it and go to sleep. within the first 3rd of the book there was nudity on boats, a lion carrying a person, and a snake crawling into someone's house.