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Royal Shakespeare Company excited to stage Roald Dahl’s ‘inspirational’ BFG

The stage adaptation by playwright Tom Wells will delight families over the festive period across a 10-week run at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

The Independent UK

RSC goes for Hamlet hat-trick with production of Fat Ham

James Ijames’s Pulitzer-winning play will be part of new season alongside adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Naomi Alderman’s cultural highlights

The author of the bestselling The Power on her favourite video game, the courses she takes with the Open University, and why she is addicted to George Saunders’s substack

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Stuart Turton: ‘I read some Roald Dahl I probably wasn’t ready for’

The crime novelist on the dark side of Dahl, the joy of Virginia Woolf and the comforts of Terry Pratchett

The Guardian - UK

‘I was captivated and in awe’: readers’ favourite theatre of 2024

A towering turn from John Lithgow, musicals in Birmingham and Manchester, and Sarah Snook’s one-woman Wilde were among the year’s standout shows

The Guardian - UK

Do you really have a separate stomach for pudding? Why the body can always make space

The science behind “the second stomach”. You know, the one for sweets

Evening Standard

5 movies on Prime Video with over 88% on Rotten Tomatoes

Prime Video's December 2024 schedule is just as vibrant as its previous lists. But these five movies have made their way into my watchlist.

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Fact check: Image of statue resembling Jimmy Savile was generated by AI

Synthetic picture does not show a real statue and was never intended to resemble children’s author Roald Dahl.

Evening Standard

Watch: First look at Sainsbury’s Christmas 2024 advert as Roald Dahl character takes centre stage

This is the first look at Sainsbury’s 2024 Christmas advert.

The Independent UK

Sainsbury’s Christmas Advert 2024: A cosy dose of the feels with the Big Friendly Giant

4/5 Precision levels of nostalgia let this genuinely heartwarming tale of a fictional character touch on real issues with grace

Evening Standard

Roald Dahl favourite takes centre stage in first Christmas 2024 advert

A well-known friendly giant appears in the Sainsbury’s car park in search of some festive help

The Independent UK

‘It’s the damnedest thing I’ve ever seen’: 10 film flops that became classics – ranked!

Hindsight can be a wonderful thing – as much-loved movies including Citizen Kane, The Shawshank Redemption and Blade Runner have proved

The Guardian - UK

The 32 greatest Anne Hathaway movies

She's been Jane Austen and assistants, Catwoman and con artists

Total Film

Tim Burton says it’s ‘really wrong’ to remove offensive language from Roald Dahl books

Director said you could ‘get rid of everybody if you really wanted to’

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13 parent-approved Halloween movies — no nightmares guaranteed

From gentle witches to friendly ghosts, discover 11 Halloween films that balance spooky fun with family-friendly entertainment for all ages.

Evening Standard

OPINION - When I met Roald Dahl, he said antisemitic things — but the campaign to cancel him is wrong

Many years ago I was a theatre critic, and over the years I’ve seen and written about plays of all sorts, from the powerful and provocative to the bland and banal. But I’ve never experienced the strange, eerie, even disturbing emotions that occurred recently when hearing my own name repeated…

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Giant; Roots; Look Back in Anger – review

John Lithgow as Roald Dahl towers over Nicholas Hytner’s production of an extraordinary debut play; Morfydd Clark finds her voice in a Wesker revival; and a John Osborne staging is a step backward

Evening Standard

Giant at the Royal Court review: shocking, challenging Roald Dahl play is spectacularly good

Mark Rosenblatt’s fearless script is one thing, but the play about the author’s vile antisemitism is made extraordinary by the performances, led by John Lithgow

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Giant – exploration of Roald Dahl and antisemitism that speaks to our times

Sophisticated play melds fact with fiction in its dramatisation of a scandalous moment in the author’s life

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m an ordinary man who plays crazy parts’: John Lithgow on tackling Roald Dahl

When John Lithgow got the role of author and antisemite Roald Dahl, friends feared for his safety. He reveals why he’s never been one to shy from a challenge

Evening Standard

Best toys to gift for Christmas 2024 that kids will love, from Jellycat to Sylvanian Families

Endless fun beyond Christmas morning

The Guardian - UK

Nothing But the Best review – raffish Alan Bates comedy is a time capsule of 60s London

Millicent Martin and Denholm Elliott also star in Clive Donner’s 1964 satire on class, filled with macabre twists

Evening Standard

Roald Dahl's grandson beaten up by pickpocketing gang after tackling thief on Westminster Bridge

Ned Donovan, a Met special constable, was attacked as he challenged thief he noticed was trying to steal from a tourist

The Guardian - UK

‘People came just to see how awful it was’: from Wonkaland to Fyre, the inside story of festivals so bad they went viral

The sad Oompa-Loompa at Wonkaland, an elf at a low-rent British Lapland, the DJ who tried to save Blobbyland, and a fixer at the ill-fated Fyre festival reveal what happened next

Evening Standard

Anthony Horowitz: I'm thinking about quitting children's books over censorship

Anthony Horowitz is one of our most successful authors, but he is not sure if he can continue to write children’s books because of attacks on artistic freedom, he tells Anna Davis

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