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Roald Dahl
Broadway veterans Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman on the complex process of writing new songs for Bord Gáis Energy Theatre’s Christmas show
Plus: What was the last film for which Meryl Streep gained an Oscar nomination?
Three more adaptations featuring the same team will arrive on Netflix in coming days
Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and Dev Patel star in the director’s faithfully scripted new film of The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Hollywood star Patricia Neal’s ‘career, independence and beauty were gone within a decade’ of marrying Roald Dahl
The trouble with the contemporary ethos is that almost by definition it is liable to change - it always has been. And then what?
Hugh Linehan: If sensitivity readers are willing to bowdlerise an author such as Roald Dahl, what’s going on with first-time writers?
For all the concern about cancel culture and wokewashing, critics, writers, publishers and film producers have always been mindful of changing sensitivities
References in classic children’s books to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race have been rewritten
Planet Business: Fake Wonka bars, seized superyachts and an NFT-beating Picasso
Book review: French feminist urges modern women to consider the term ‘witch’
Don your jingliest, jangliest elf hat. It’s going to be a jungly Late Late Toy Show 2021
‘We are about to visit the most marvellous places,’ says Netflix after Roald Dahl aquisition – yeah, right
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