How Roald Dahl Shaped Pop – review

Radio 2How Roald Dahl Shaped Pop (Radio 2) was full of peculiar and often upside-down compliments. "Not everything's nice," was how Jarvis Cocker summed up Dahl's writing. "His stuff was really sick and twisted," enthused Kate Nash. It features, said David Tennant, who presented the programme, "a good dollop of rudeness". Tennant said that as he said everything here: with a vigorous enunciation and plosive push that was the aural equivalent of Space Dust on your tongue.Ultimately, this account ...

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