Roald Dahl spent two years at the Cathedral School in Llandaff, from the age of seven to nine. He then moved to St Peter's boarding school in Weston-super-Mare and suffered from homesickness. At the ...

One of the most beloved children's authors of all time, British writer Roald Dahl was renowned ... Boy: Tales of Childhood is ...

Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Roald Dahl's daughter Ophelia Dahl reflects on how some of her father's most famous works had their origins in popularity amongst her school friends ...

What did you learn from your experience? For example, when Roald Dahl wrote his first autobiography, Boy, he chose to focus on his school years. He tells the story of his local sweet shop and his ...

‘A witch is always a woman,’ wrote Roald Dahl in The Witches in 1983. ‘I do not wish to speak badly about women. Most women are lovely. But the fact remains that all witches are women. There is no ...

Roald Dahl's career as a children's author is well ... but were more fantasy than biography. He touched upon subjects including off-duty exploits, the pain of waiting for a lover to return from ...

But I used scratchy ink nibs to illustrate the 18 books I did for Roald Dahl over the 15 years I knew him until his death in 1990. The characters in The Twits are really unpleasant, so I had to ...

Roald Dahl’s story has been told before – most notably, and in greater detail, by Jeremy Treglown in Roald Dahl: A biography (1994) and Donald Sturrock in Storyteller: The life of Roald Dahl (2010).

Roald Dahl's daughter Ophelia Dahl recalls her ... Dahl's largely unhappy time at school is chronicled in Boy, the memoir of his childhood, in which he shares stories about his school days and ...