Happy birthday, Roald Dahl!

An array of fantastical events across the UK marks the century that has passed since one of the world's best-loved authors was born

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Today marks 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl but time hasn't changed how children and adults alike feel about his work. Readers young and old continue to be captivated by his phizz-whizzing tales and endlessly inventive wit.

This weekend, Dahl's home town of Cardiff is paying tribute to the author in suitably weird and wonderful style with a two-day extravaganza staged by the Wales Millennium Centre and National Theatre Wales. City of the Unexpected will see more than 6,000 performers sing, dance and act their way across the Welsh capital, along with a number of readings by some of Dahl's biggest and best-known fans in some rather unusual locations. Enthusiasts will also want to set aside time before 20 November to visit Quentin Blake: Inside Stories an exhibition at the National Museum Cardiff, co-curated by Dahl's illustrator collaborator, that charts the visual evolution of some of the writer's most memorable characters.

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