The Bitter Aftertaste of Roald Dahl

The Bitter Aftertaste of Roald Dahl

Me on Broadway. Not a phrase that immediately comes to mind, and certainly not one that occurred to me in 1983 when I’d just started my career as a journalist at The New Statesman. But I feature, or at least my voice does, large and significantly in the play Giant, starring John Lithgow, that has now transferred from London to New York.The reason is that back when I started at the Statesman, just out of university and somewhat in awe of pretty m…