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Roald Dahl

April 2024

  • Still image as seen in Channel 5 documentary showing a woman in a green wig playing an Oompa Loompa and looking sad; she is at a work surface with some chemistry equipment, test tubes and bottles

    Glasgow Willy Wonka ‘Chocolate Experience’ to be recreated – in LA

  • Illustrations from The Twits Next Door.

    Greg James apologises for suggestion a glass eye would make Roald Dahl Twit disgusting

March 2024

  • Characteristic whimsy … Benedict Cumberbatch in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.

    The 2024 Oscar shorts review – intense drama, enticing animation and essential documentary

  • Roald Dahl.

    John Lithgow to star in Royal Court play about Roald Dahl’s antisemitism

December 2023

  • Timothée Chalamet in period costume and a top hat while holding a glass jar, with a crowd in the background.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Wonka review – Timothée Chalamet delights in fizzing Chocolate Factory prequel

  • Robyn Sinclair, Lawrence Hodgson-Mullings and Elliotte Williams-N'Dure in The Enormous Crocodile. Credit Manuel Harlan Croc-104

    The Enormous Crocodile review – Roald Dahl’s dastardly reptile stalks the stage

  • Choc horror … Philip Wiegratz as Augustus Gloop in Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).

    Choc horror: will Wonka turn the tide on sickly movie chocolate?

  • Timothée Chalamet in Wonka.

    Wonka review – Timothée Chalamet’s Chocolate Factory prequel is a superbly sweet treat

November 2023

  • A costume fitting for Katherine Kingsley who will play the Grand High Witch. The costume department at the National Theatre, during the creation of the National Theatre's newest production The WItches. London. Photograph by David Levene 21/9/23

    The Guardian picture essay
    Motorised mice and hideous death masks: bringing The Witches to life on stage

  • A dominatrix in pastel … Katherine Kingsley (Grand High Witch) and her coven at the Olivier theatre, London.

    The Witches review – frights played for fun in rollicking musical

October 2023

  • benedict cumberbatch in a red tracksuit on the balcony of a big townhouse, with papers fluttering down from the sky

    The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar review – Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl are a perfect fit

    Ralph Fiennes and Benedict Cumberbatch star in the director’s lovingly detailed ​short film based on Dahl’s tale of a man who can see through objects

September 2023

  • Funny but inscrutable … Benedict Cumberbatch as Henry Sugar and Ralph Fiennes as the policeman in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.

    The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar review – Wes Anderson’s star-stuffed Roald Dahl yarn

    At just 37 minutes, Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Kingsley, Dev Patel and Richard Ayoade never get beyond the two-dimensional
  • Benedict Cumberbatch in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.

    The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar review – Wes Anderson’s short and sweet Roald Dahl tale

    Anderson’s second Dahl adaptation is a droll 40 minutes of beautifully composed nested stories, with Benedict Cumberbatch as a gambler who learns how to beat the house
  • Anderson’s latest adaptation of Dahl’s work, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, premieres out of competition at Venice film festival on Friday.

    Roald Dahl’s works shouldn’t be edited, says Wes Anderson

    Director says he feels that when a piece of art is finished, ‘it’s done’, amid row over editing of language

August 2023

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    Brief letters
    Michael Parkinson was on the right side of history

    Brief letters: Celebrating Parkinson | Technology predictions | Benefits or bank holiday? | Dead nice delicacies | A-level jumping
  • Jacqueline Wilson

    ‘Times change’: what authors think about rewriting older books

    Jacqueline Wilson is latest writer to wade into debate over changing dated and offensive language
  • Not the flames of hell but a demonstration against new oil and gas licences, featuring one protester dressed as Rishi Sunak

    Brief letters
    Britain is indeed in political purgatory

    Brief letters: Undead government | French sunbathers and swimmers | Roald Dahl’s AI prescience | Barbie product placement | Election fibs

July 2023

  • front view of the Roald Dahl museum and Story Centre, showing wall painted with image of a character and the words 'flushbunkingly gloriumptious'

    Roald Dahl museum acknowledges author’s antisemitism

  • Timothée Chalamet in Wonka.

    Wonka: first trailer for Timothée Chalamet’s chocolatey prequel

June 2023

  • Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull in Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical and the best adaptations of classic children’s books

    The latest all-singing version of Matilda, now on Netflix, joins an impressive library of thoughtful film versions of seminal kids’ books, from Paddington to Kes
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