Roald Dahl children include "James and the Giant Peach", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Matilda", "The Witches", "Fantastic Mr Fox", "The BFG", "The Twits" and "George's Marvellous Medicine". His adult works include "Tales of the Unexpected". Roald Dahl was born in 1916 at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl ("née" Hesselberg). Dahl's father had emigrated to the UK from Sarpsborg in Norway, and settled in Cardiff in the 1880s. His mother came over and married his father in 1911. Dahl was named after the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen. His first
Roald Dahl Plass the metallic fountain. The tower was also designed by Nicholas Hare Architects in conjunction with the sculptor, William Pye. The tower has also become known as the "Torchwood Tower" (and postcards published using that name), because it marked the location and entrance of the fictitious 'Torchwood Hub' of the BBC television Doctor Who spin-off series, "Torchwood". Roald Dahl Plass first appears in "Boom Town", an episode of the long running, sci-fi drama "Doctor Who". In the show's universe, a "spatial-temporal" rift runs through Cardiff. The plaza later appears in "Doctor Who"'s spin-off series "Torchwood". The fictional Torchwood Institute has one