Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series)

Edward the Conqueror (1979)

Roald Dahl: Self - Introduced by

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  Roald Dahl : A long time ago when I wrote this story, I never used to start work in the mornings until I had listened to one or other of the Beethoven quartets all the way through. The idea behind this was that if I soaked myself in these very great creative works, then a little of Beethoven's inspiration might stick to my own skin or my brain or my fingers and come out in what I wrote. Of course, that never happened. But one did sit down to work in a marvelously uplifted state of mind, which made it a little more difficult to write absolute bosh. What you're going to see now is a musical story that somehow emerged from this peculiar habit of mine.