Courtesy of listener @slumbass who was kind and diligent enough to compile this list of chapters: 0:22 MAN FROM THE SOUTH 13:53 SKIN 27:22 LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER 40:48 DIP IN THE POOL 54:21 NUNK DIMITIS 1:07:50 WILLIAM AND MARY 1:21:40 PARSONS PLEASURE 1:35:17 ROYAL JELLY 1:48:53 MRS BIXBY AND THE COLONELS COAT 2:02:48 THE LANDLADY 2:16:40 TASTE 2:30:15 THE WAY UP TO HEAVEN 2:43:40 THE HITCHHIKER 2:57:22 EDWARD THE CONQUEROR 3:11:00 NECK 3:24:19 THE BOOKSELLER 3:42:20 POISON 4:00:37 MY LADY LOVE, MY LOVE 4:13:40 THE SURGEON 4:27:15 THE BUTLER
Thank you . I was wishing hadn’t put them in a reply. Now I don’t have to search. For the comment I replied to every time! Thanks for the upload. Much appreciated
Lamb to the Slaughter.....1968 one of my classmates in English pawned off this story as his own. I always knew it was way too clever for him. Got out of bed to send this. After all those years...its nice to be validated.😎👍🏼
I remember reading this in my early years of high school , more than 30 years later I still so much enjoy listening to this again ..... what a great storyteller .... ❤🙏
Yes, I think they adapted most of his stories in the first couple of series - you might remember that he actually used to present the show to begin with, but parted ways when they started adapting the work of other authors. There are older adaptations of a lot of them too - there's a very good US version of Man From The South starring Peter Lorre, for example...
That's because it's Roald Dahls Tales of the Unexpected. Lamb to the Slaughter and Man From the South were also both made into Alfred Hitchcocks too. Both old and the newer ones.
@Sheriff_GrimLaw Sorry, I only just saw your comment. You're absolutely right - I saw that version quite recently, Peter Lorre as 'the man' and Steve McQueen as the young man who takes his bet. The version I'm most familiar with is from the British TV series 'Tales of the Unexpected' from the late 1970s and 1980s - in that version it was Jose Ferrer as the man...
0:22 MAN FROM THE SOUTH 13:53 SKIN 27:22 LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER 40:48 DIP IN THE POOL 54:21 NUNK DIMITIS 1:07:50 WILLIAM AND MARY 1:21:40 PARSONS PLEASURE 1:35:17 ROYAL JELLY 1:48:53 MRS BIXBY AND THE COLONELS COAT 2:02:48 THE LANDLADY 2:16:40 TASTE 2:30:15 THE WAY UP TO HEAVEN 2:43:40 THE HITCHHIKER 2:57:22 EDWARD THE CONQUEROR 3:11:00 NECK 3:24:19 THE BOOKSELLER 3:42:20 POISON 4:00:37 MY LADY LOVE, MY LOVE 4:13:40 THE SURGEON 4:27:15 THE BUTLER
Good news - RUclips knows. I's called Ocean Beach (Cybophonia Cinematic Remix) by the Black Mighty Orchestra. If you open up the description on a RUclips video, there will often be details of any licenced music used in it. If you open the description on this one, not only does it name the music but it gives you a link to another video where you can hear the full thing.
@@esty-arnold5124 It's undoubtedly an influence, I think - the track was released in 2003, and an awful lot of 'chill out' music from the late 90s and early 2000s was somewhat nostalgic, either sampling or using the style of music from the fifties and sixties.
I absolutely love this series, based on his stories. Lamb the slaughter was my favorite, but it’s kind of strange with the New York accents in that particular story. I expected something slightly more British lol
I know what you mean - especially knowing the British TV adaptation - but I gather Dahl lived in the US for a while so I presume this version reflects that. There was, I understand, a much earlier US TV adaptation of the story too...
@Froggie757froggiefroggiefroggi I think it just means that the old man is such a maniac that she had to play him at his own game, making bets to win control of his money etc - but over the years she lost a few bets too, and every time he took a finger, leaving her with just those two. So he really *does* cut people's fingers off, even though he was stopped from doing it to the young man with the lighter...
No - but now you mention it I can hear a similarity. It''s actually Charles Dance, probably best known these days as Tywin Lanister in Game of Thrones.
@@petermanale2932 I suspect you'll find that Morgan Freeman does act occasionally. You may also find that this radio series involved acting too. It's even possible that voices can have similar pitches, tones and timbres regardless of whether they speak in the same accent. In any case I was being polite in my response to the original comment rather than being condescending or dismissing their question out of hand.
Then you would be advised to listen to a platform other than youtube which inserts these adverts. May I suggest you take your complaint to them, rather than to the person who spent their personal time making these stories available to you?
@mysteriousmagpie Please accept my heartfelt apologies and ko-fi. I do appreciate your pains making these stories available. I'd no idea Roald Dahl ever wrote for adults, and was quite delighted to discover these gems in my feed-- especially how he lets the reader work out the endings by clues gleaned along the way during the story, provided they've been sufficiently attentive (which is greatly aided by the reading cadence and expressive tone here). I began using your @MysteriousMagpie uploads recently to deal with insomnia; they seem to draw my mind away from progressive Multiple Sclerosis issues. So thanks for that. From sampling readings offered on other channels, I was of the impression that RUclips allowed adverts to be presented in rapidfire succession, all in one go, before the tale proper ever got underway, as opposed to sprinkling them throughout as obtrusive mid-roll ads that interrupt the flow. I do regret my curt comment, seeing as you've gone to all the trouble of submitting Mr. Dahl's carefully-constructed short stories. By rights, RUclips ought to reward thoughtful content curators like yourself with a monetized incentive system for your efforts, since they plug their wares where it pleases them. After all, they'd hardly exist without the likes of you, would they.
@@jtischCB Not to worry, I also regret the sharpness of my previous comment. I'm afraid it's a relatively common event for people to complain about adverts that are beyond my control, and it's proved a little wearing as I don't put the adverts there and don't profit from them. This doesn't at all mean that I don't understand why intrusive adverts would also be annoying, of course. I'm afraid they represent a bit of a dilemma, because in the main they are present on my videos because they contain licenced music (that is, the licence-holders allow it to be used on youtube). The adverts are present to provide compensation to the owners of that music - but I get the impression that YT put more adverts in depending on how popular a video proves to be. I believe you're correct in saying that adverts can be placed more sensitively - but that's only really true of channels that have been monetized (i.e. the advert revenue goes to the channel owner). Because the radio programmes I share here are not of my creation, the channel can't be monetised, so I have no control at all over the positioning of them. However - you'll certainly find that some of my videos don't have adverts because they don't contain any music - there are many readings that you may like, including some readings of the Dahl stories dramatised here. Dahl is a very interesting man - as you say, famous for being a children's author, but his career was very diverse - he even wrote the script for a James Bond film, and personally contributed to the development of a medical device that helped to alleviate hydracefalus in young children. There are, as I say, some ways to deal with adverts so that your listening is interrupted - one is indeed to pay for YT premium membership, and I understand why that wouldn't be attractive. However, there are also 'ad-blockers' available for free, which you might want to look into... Have a Happy Christmas!
Courtesy of listener @slumbass who was kind and diligent enough to compile this list of chapters:
0:22 MAN FROM THE SOUTH
13:53 SKIN
27:22 LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER
40:48 DIP IN THE POOL
54:21 NUNK DIMITIS
1:07:50 WILLIAM AND MARY
1:21:40 PARSONS PLEASURE
1:35:17 ROYAL JELLY
1:48:53 MRS BIXBY AND THE COLONELS COAT
2:02:48 THE LANDLADY
2:16:40 TASTE
2:30:15 THE WAY UP TO HEAVEN
2:43:40 THE HITCHHIKER
2:57:22 EDWARD THE CONQUEROR
3:11:00 NECK
3:24:19 THE BOOKSELLER
3:42:20 POISON
4:00:37 MY LADY LOVE, MY LOVE
4:13:40 THE SURGEON
4:27:15 THE BUTLER
My thanks to @slumbass for doing the work for the rest of us. Cheers.
Thank you . I was wishing hadn’t put them in a reply. Now I don’t have to search. For the comment I replied to every time!
Thanks for the upload. Much appreciated
@mysteriousmagpie Thanks!
No, thank you.
What a treat to stumble upon these radio shows. Thanks for posting them!
Wonderful! Really enjoyable four hours. Thank you
Lamb to the Slaughter.....1968 one of my classmates in English pawned off this story as his own. I always knew it was way too clever for him. Got out of bed to send this. After all those years...its nice to be validated.😎👍🏼
Great little tales, beautiful narration. Many thanks for this compilation
I love how the closing scene of every story is left to the reader to deduce🤔. Mr Dahl had great respect for the intelligence of his audience😊.
just wonderful thank you
I remember reading this in my early years of high school , more than 30 years later I still so much enjoy listening to this again ..... what a great storyteller .... ❤🙏
Wow thanks very much! As Above So Below!
I particularly enjoyed getting the news of the time.
And at no extra charge...
The way up to heaven had me totally stressed out 😂 great stories
I must say this is simply delightful. Chapters would be nice but I other wise this really kicks ass. Oh wait! There they are. This is grand indeed.
Charles Dance is the narrator? Nice.
The starting music always spooked me 😮
Yeah... There is something a little bit unsettling about it but still very appropriate.👍😎
@michaelcallaghan3070 ,,,,FACT,,,,,
Thanks for sharing , I really enjoy listen to these old tales,v and these ones are well dramatists. 😁👍
I was scared when my mother was watching these but I'm watching them again and still apprehensive 😮😮❤ 😮😮😮 almost naughty!!!
I remember watching an episode of Tales of the unexpected which had exactly this storyline. Its always been memorable ( the first story )
Yes, I think they adapted most of his stories in the first couple of series - you might remember that he actually used to present the show to begin with, but parted ways when they started adapting the work of other authors. There are older adaptations of a lot of them too - there's a very good US version of Man From The South starring Peter Lorre, for example...
Isn't it an Alfred Hitchcock Presents... episode. Starring a young Steve McQueen?
@mysteriousmagpie
It also was the basis for the Quentin Tarantino segment of the 1995 anthology film Four Rooms.
That's because it's Roald Dahls Tales of the Unexpected. Lamb to the Slaughter and Man From the South were also both made into Alfred Hitchcocks too. Both old and the newer ones.
@Sheriff_GrimLaw Sorry, I only just saw your comment. You're absolutely right - I saw that version quite recently, Peter Lorre as 'the man' and Steve McQueen as the young man who takes his bet. The version I'm most familiar with is from the British TV series 'Tales of the Unexpected' from the late 1970s and 1980s - in that version it was Jose Ferrer as the man...
thank you... 🧡🧡🧡🧡
This is excellent! Could you put a list of the stories and time stamps?
0:22 MAN FROM THE SOUTH
13:53 SKIN
27:22 LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER
40:48 DIP IN THE POOL
54:21 NUNK DIMITIS
1:07:50 WILLIAM AND MARY
1:21:40 PARSONS PLEASURE
1:35:17 ROYAL JELLY
1:48:53 MRS BIXBY AND THE COLONELS COAT
2:02:48 THE LANDLADY
2:16:40 TASTE
2:30:15 THE WAY UP TO HEAVEN
2:43:40 THE HITCHHIKER
2:57:22 EDWARD THE CONQUEROR
3:11:00 NECK
3:24:19 THE BOOKSELLER
3:42:20 POISON
4:00:37 MY LADY LOVE, MY LOVE
4:13:40 THE SURGEON
4:27:15 THE BUTLER
Thank you very much. @@slumbass
@@slumbass
Well done,👍🏻
@@slumbassthanks
Thank you for this! @@slumbass
This is great, but it really needed chapters.
Oh but it does.
@darrelneidiffer6777 cool 👍
any clue what the theme music is and/or who by? it's gorgeous.
It sounds similar to the A Place I The Sun theme (1951)🤔
Good news - RUclips knows. I's called Ocean Beach (Cybophonia Cinematic Remix) by the Black Mighty Orchestra. If you open up the description on a RUclips video, there will often be details of any licenced music used in it. If you open the description on this one, not only does it name the music but it gives you a link to another video where you can hear the full thing.
I went back to listen to Victor Young's orchestral version of A Place In The Sun to compare, it sounds so similar.
@@esty-arnold5124 It's undoubtedly an influence, I think - the track was released in 2003, and an awful lot of 'chill out' music from the late 90s and early 2000s was somewhat nostalgic, either sampling or using the style of music from the fifties and sixties.
@mysteriousmagpie thank you so much! i had looked for it in the description before but somehow didn't see it. don't know how i missed it then.
I absolutely love this series, based on his stories. Lamb the slaughter was my favorite, but it’s kind of strange with the New York accents in that particular story. I expected something slightly more British lol
I know what you mean - especially knowing the British TV adaptation - but I gather Dahl lived in the US for a while so I presume this version reflects that. There was, I understand, a much earlier US TV adaptation of the story too...
Took her four tries, but who's the sucker NOW?
12.29.24.❤❤❤
Am I hearing Steve Pemberton there? Ooh
And a young mark heap!
Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
He adapted plenty, but the UK series 'Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected' literally ran out of Dahl stories to adapt...
I don't understand the first story about the finger and the old lady with only a thumb and a little finger?
@Froggie757froggiefroggiefroggi I think it just means that the old man is such a maniac that she had to play him at his own game, making bets to win control of his money etc - but over the years she lost a few bets too, and every time he took a finger, leaving her with just those two. So he really *does* cut people's fingers off, even though he was stopped from doing it to the young man with the lighter...
Is the narrator Morgan Freeman ?
No - but now you mention it I can hear a similarity. It''s actually Charles Dance, probably best known these days as Tywin Lanister in Game of Thrones.
@mysteriousmagpieMorgan Freeman does not speak in a British accent--unless he's acting. 😅
@@petermanale2932 I suspect you'll find that Morgan Freeman does act occasionally. You may also find that this radio series involved acting too. It's even possible that voices can have similar pitches, tones and timbres regardless of whether they speak in the same accent. In any case I was being polite in my response to the original comment rather than being condescending or dismissing their question out of hand.
@mysteriousmagpieabsolute class at its finest ❤ wish I could re-sub to show my appreciation for your extraordinarily high caliber of humanity😊
No.😅😅😅😅😅😅
The constant ads are jarring and intrusive. I cannot focus intently on the narrative, knowing the next ad is going to come slashing thtough.
Then you would be advised to listen to a platform other than youtube which inserts these adverts. May I suggest you take your complaint to them, rather than to the person who spent their personal time making these stories available to you?
Or sign up to RUclips premium, it's ad free.
Unbelievable and ungrateful people about
@mysteriousmagpie Please accept my heartfelt apologies and ko-fi. I do appreciate your pains making these stories available. I'd no idea Roald Dahl ever wrote for adults, and was quite delighted to discover these gems in my feed-- especially how he lets the reader work out the endings by clues gleaned along the way during the story, provided they've been sufficiently attentive (which is greatly aided by the reading cadence and expressive tone here).
I began using your @MysteriousMagpie uploads recently to deal with insomnia; they seem to draw my mind away from progressive Multiple Sclerosis issues. So thanks for that.
From sampling readings offered on other channels, I was of the impression that RUclips allowed adverts to be presented in rapidfire succession, all in one go, before the tale proper ever got underway, as opposed to sprinkling them throughout as obtrusive mid-roll ads that interrupt the flow.
I do regret my curt comment, seeing as you've gone to all the trouble of submitting Mr. Dahl's carefully-constructed short stories. By rights, RUclips ought to reward thoughtful content curators like yourself with a monetized incentive system for your efforts, since they plug their wares where it pleases them. After all, they'd hardly exist without the likes of you, would they.
@@jtischCB Not to worry, I also regret the sharpness of my previous comment. I'm afraid it's a relatively common event for people to complain about adverts that are beyond my control, and it's proved a little wearing as I don't put the adverts there and don't profit from them. This doesn't at all mean that I don't understand why intrusive adverts would also be annoying, of course. I'm afraid they represent a bit of a dilemma, because in the main they are present on my videos because they contain licenced music (that is, the licence-holders allow it to be used on youtube). The adverts are present to provide compensation to the owners of that music - but I get the impression that YT put more adverts in depending on how popular a video proves to be. I believe you're correct in saying that adverts can be placed more sensitively - but that's only really true of channels that have been monetized (i.e. the advert revenue goes to the channel owner). Because the radio programmes I share here are not of my creation, the channel can't be monetised, so I have no control at all over the positioning of them. However - you'll certainly find that some of my videos don't have adverts because they don't contain any music - there are many readings that you may like, including some readings of the Dahl stories dramatised here. Dahl is a very interesting man - as you say, famous for being a children's author, but his career was very diverse - he even wrote the script for a James Bond film, and personally contributed to the development of a medical device that helped to alleviate hydracefalus in young children. There are, as I say, some ways to deal with adverts so that your listening is interrupted - one is indeed to pay for YT premium membership, and I understand why that wouldn't be attractive. However, there are also 'ad-blockers' available for free, which you might want to look into... Have a Happy Christmas!
@mysteriousmagpie My comment was taken down!? Now I know more, I shall ignore ads and send YT premium $$ directly to your ko-fi instead.