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Sky One will be airing its delightful family drama Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse tonight at 8.15pm. The feature-length cast sees acclaimed British author Beatrix Potter (played by Dawn French) struggling at the end of her distinguished career amid a lack of inspiration and failing eyesight encountering a young Roald Dahl (Harry Tayler), who is a big fan of the writer. Their meeting of minds will influence children’s literature in the decades to come and Express.co.uk has the lowdown on the cast of this one-off drama.
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WATCH: Dawn French talks all things her new book Because Of You It s remarkable really, it s about the very real day, the true happening when Roald Dahl aged six, met the real 60 year old Beatrix Potter.
He had a tough old time Roald when he was younger, his father died and his sister died. And he asked his mother if he could go and visit Peter Rabbit, so she took him to Beatrix Potter s garden, and I m sure Beatrix was a grumpy old thing who had many children running into her garden, and I m sure she was fed up of it .
Although they were born 50 years apart, children’s authors Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl have much in common. So when it was discovered they had briefly met in real life, when Roald was a child and Beatrix nearing retirement age, it was the obvious springboard for a heartwarming Christmas drama that imagines how that meeting might have gone.
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail Of The Curious Mouse – a blend of live action, animation and puppetry – stars Dawn French as Beatrix and Harry Tayler as Roald, and boasts a stellar supporting cast including Rob Brydon, Alison Steadman, Bill Bailey and Jessica Hynes, with narration by John Hannah.