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"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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