1984: Roald Dahl on Wogan
"My job was to help Winston Churchill to get on with FDR, and tell Winston what was in the old boy's mind."
Roald Dahl talks about why he was not a wartime spy, but merely a family friend of US President Franklin D Roosevelt.
Asked by Terry Wogan about the "art of frightening the life out of people," he insists that there is "such a narrow line between the macabre and laughter".
This clip is from Wogan.
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