PONS GmbH are one of the largest publishers of dictionaries and schoolbooks in Germany, and today I’m helping them with a new project. They’re getting ready to launch a new product for English language-learners. It’s a series of short stories, so there’ll be a book with the English text and its German translation, and an accompanying audio CD in English – which is where I come in, as the narrator.
The first two stories are some classics from Roald Dahl: “The Way Up To Heaven”, and “Parson’s Pleasure” – both classic tales of the unexpected, from the great man himself.
As Max Bygraves might say, “I want to tell you a story…” And to that end, there’s a excerpt, below.
Trivia time: Did you know that the theme tune to the ITV series “Tales of the Unexpected” was composed by the same man who composed the theme tune to Doctor Who, the late Ron Grainer?
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