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One summer’s day in 1983, with “The Witches” nearing publication ... in reserve and instead ignites the room with flashes of lethal humor. As much as Dahl ever was, Lithgow is in total ...
Giant (written by Mark Rosenblatt) is playing at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre until August 2. It features a masterly ...
New editions of classic 20th century children’s books by British author Roald Dahl – such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches and Fantastic Mr ...
My favourite Roald Dahl character is Charlie Bucket from Charlie ... My favourite character is the grandmother from The Witches. Even though her vivid descriptions of the witches often freaked ...
I was only 10 years old when my first film scarred me for life. Picture the scene: I was scrolling through TV channels in my ...
Dining room design is about striking the right balance between functionality and style, and it’s not always as simple as it may seem. Too often, dining rooms can be left feeling flat ...
(Bloomberg) — The summer of 1983 was a tough time to be—and to be around—Roald ... Dahl, then 66, was recently divorced; his fiancée was renovating his home, so he was living amid a construction mess ...
Well, if you win the Anchor Ball Raffle, you won’t have to imagine what it would be like to eat in the Captain’s Dining Room. You and seven guests can find out IRL. The raffle is part of the ...
needling Roald Dahl. This blistering piece of theatre deals with the fallout of a book review Dahl wrote in 1982, on the eve of the publication of The Witches, in which his criticism of Israel’s ...
A long-forgotten dining room has been lovingly restored inside a 1912 Front Gable Craftsman-Colonial Revival house. Thanks to its current owners’ vision and attention to detail, the room’s ...
Dame Prue Leith has candidly shared her experience with a health issue as a child that resulted in her "having an operation" on the dining room table. Prue, 85, was just six when she had developed ...
A teacher from Australia was reunited with an opal gifted by his class to the children's author Roald Dahl more than 30 years ago. Mark Taylor, 57, made a special trip to the Roald Dahl Museum and ...