Interview with Roald Dahl (1989)
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- Опубликовано: 13 апр 2017
- Interview with Roald Dahl by Henry Notaker for the NRK.
The interview starts off in Norwegian, but eventually switches to English. The parts that are in Norwegian have been subtitled.
Also present is Roald's sisters, Else and Alfhild.
Original release: October 20, 1989, on current affairs programme MIKS.
Its somehow heartwarming hearing Roald Dahl talk in his home tongue. Norwegian is a pretty language by the sound of it.
@ Of course, compared to Danish it is possibly sublime! ;)
Some Nordic banter for you :)
"the Scottish of Scandinavia" I kinda like that.
@@fhlostonparaphrase Roald is British
@@adolflenin4973 he had two Norwegian parents. He's not speaking Norwegian in the beginning of the video by some random happenstance.
@@Vingul He had British citizenship
@@adolflenin4973 Yes.
i havent heard him speak before, im proud to be a norwegian because of him
@@adolflenin4973 No, Norwegian
I remember being home sick from school, in the late 80s, and my mom bringing home from a bookstore “The Twits”. I immediately loved it, read nearly all of his books over the following 3 years, and feeling so sad when he died when I was 9.
Oh. First time i’ve heard him speak Norwegian.
Samme her! Veldig spesielt å se.
His like will never be seen again. David Walliams tries to imitate him but he's not in the same league.
should not be mentioned in the same sentence
I don't think he's trying to be, however Quentin Blake, who illustrated Roald Dahl's books, is working with David Walliams now, so obviously he thinks he's good enough.
@Cintamyf in what way?
Quentin Blake now does all the illustrations for David Walliams books as he did for Roald Dahls.
@@peteandurnot Quentin is 109 years of age and still going! what a legend
He's one of my favorite authors of all time.
I've read almost all his children-books and loves the way he writes them.
*favoUrite
@@adolflenin4973 The fact that you've resurrected that comment to *correct* the incorrect spelling is exactly the level of pettiness that I aspire to embody.
This is a very good interview!
Roald Dahl looks and sounds very well here, sad to think he would die the following year.
On the road I live on in Cardiff there is a house with a blue plaque saying it is the site of the house Roald Dahl lived in as a boy. Apparently the house he lived in during the 1920s was destroyed by a fire in the 1960s. Great writer and an interesting man.
"Today, nothing is fabulous anymore. Everything is easy..." Very true, people have become complacent, take everything for granted and too lazy to work hard for anything much... and it's made us entitled and ungrateful. Rather sad if you think about it.
Roald passed away only a year after this interview, at the age of 74 of myelodysplastic syndrome (a rare cancer of the blood).
As someone from the Northeast of England the Norwegian seems oddly familiar, particularly hearing young Roald referred to as a "bairn".
I love listening to him, he's very erudite and worldly on the things that make life enjoyable. His life story is an incredible one and would make a fantastic film.
I agree. I’m a big Roald Dahl fan and this was a great interview with him and his sisters. May he Rest In Peace.
He lived a great life. Would love to see an autobiography about his time in Washington. The real James Bond?
@卐 HitlerLoveϟϟ Anime 卐 Hah!. R u joking with that name.
@卐 HitlerLoveϟϟ Anime 卐 no, has yours? Oh wait a troll appeared
@卐 HitlerLoveϟϟ Anime 卐 I didn't know what anime is. I dont take recommendations off strangers.
@卐 HitlerLoveϟϟ Anime 卐 yes, and his summers in Norway so.
@Hitler Loves Anime you're weird dude
How does his accent sound to a native Norwegian? Can someone describe it please.
I loved his books and have read every one to my daughter.
He has an obvious accent while speaking, and it sounds like he can't really find his words. Easily understandable though.
Not fluent , but better than broken Norwegian! It’s understandable but he’s clearly lacking in vocabulary- something he was unable to explain in Norwegian. His sisters speak fluently , it seems
He’s fluent, but at times you can hear he has an accent when speaking, as apposed to just a dielct
Note that
•He does speak with a dielct
•His parent were born in the 1800-
& would be his source of learning norwegian & where they vacationed in Norway place/period would also dictate this
•Lastly his health would also have an affect as well as age, if you don’t vocally express yourself that often in 1 language, you’ll tend to be a bit rusty.
•The comment saying he can’t seem to always find the words in Norwegian, may be just the reflection that English is more rich in words, so that would only be natural.
•The equipment used to record his voice at that time, could possibly also make his accent more prominent.
@@MissCee370 Just bc he has a slight accent or can’t always find the words doesn’t mean he isn’t fluent…
Jeg er ikke fra Fuglstad
did he ever speak welsh aswell, does anyone know???
An article I found: “His education, class, Norwegian heritage and upbringing in anglicised Llandaff largely insulated the young Dahl from the Welsh language, and even from the native Cardiff accent, for the nine years in which he was resident in Wales.”
@@anonymoussaga8723 aw thanks so much man. are you able to confirm where the article came from ?
The mouth truly is everything and I realised that after covid. Very often I'd see people in a mask and think they were quite attractive UNTIL they removed the mask for a breath.....seeing their mouth very often just either enhanced their beauty or made them far less appealing.
7:35.
I love youuuuu
God knows what they're talking about at the start. How much Roald hates driving through Golders Green?
Turn on captions to see translation.
Norwegian is his first language, but he sounds like English is way easier for him to speak, due to the years he spent in boarding schools.
What he says about flying seems rather ironic when many years after his death, Norwegian Airline made Roald Dahl its first ever "British" tail-fin hero....
Roald was a giant-sized man, nearly 2 meters tall! In fact, the entire Dahl family is blessed with great height, including his granddaughter Sophie who's 183cm and married to Jamie Cullen who's merely 164cm.
He was 6ft 6 and often asked if he was the BFG.
Sheeeesh
Roald is Norwegian?!
His parents were, but he was born in Britain and raised in Wales.
@@englishguy1985 HIs mother could have gone back to Norway after his father died and no one would have blamed her - she'd just lost a daughter and her husband in just under two months, she had three other children of her own and was pregnant again and had her husbands two children from his first marriage to take care of as well, she easily have gone back where her birth family was and gotten them to help but her husband apparently insisted that he wanted his children to go to English schools so she stayed there.
@@englishguy1985 I’d argue that Roald Dahl is Norwegian, given that both parents were & some of his siblings were also immigrants, he vacationed often in Norway & saw his norwegian born/living family often…which is rare even for immigrants, let a long their child to do.
But it does’t take away from his English upbringing & education(It’s funny that the moms reason for staying was that the dad claimed UK had the best school, hence her staying after his death, but RD HATED SCHOOL ! lol)
I ❤️ Roald Dahl
hm i wonder how many people who are watching this are born after Dahl passed away
me…
11:04 WHAT!?
Fagging was a traditional practice in British public schools and also at many other boarding schools, whereby younger pupils were required to act as personal servants to the eldest boys. Although probably originating earlier, the first accounts of fagging appeared in the late 17th century, and fagging sometimes involved physical abuse and/or sexual abuse.Although lessening in severity over the centuries, the practice continued in some institutions until the end of the 20th century.
A fag is not slang for gay guy or slang for a cigarette. In British Public Schools younger pupils were required to act as personal servants to the eldest boys. Those servants were called "fags".
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Haha jeg skjønner alt de sier
Not enough words. Jævla bullshit😂
He is an amazing man and a sexy grasshopper.
It was his daughter who described him as a big grasshopper
I do not like that this is in another language.😠
He was also an antisemite 👀 But he did write good books tho
half the people living last century unfortunately probably had at least one racist tendency. But I guess the best way to look at anything or anyone is to include the faults as well.
Wow I love him even more!
He's more of an anti Zionist to me, seeing how although he did have a few racist remarks against the Jewish people ,he seemingly have no problems whatsoever having Jewish people as close contacts in his life seeing that his publisher and agents were Jewish and he had nothing but good things to say about them.
Wtf, I love Roald Dahl now
@@jojohairee9987 Jewish is not a race though…