Fan site for author Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
Netflix is using an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice in its Willy Wonka reality show. As a Dahl expert—and living human being with eyes and ears and a brain—I hate every single thing about this. Also, it doesn’t even sound like him. Wilder’s and Dahl’s heirs should be ashamed.
Quentin Blake’s website has a page of information about how he draws, as well as some videos of him in action. I especially liked this one of him drawing a hornswoggler!
I’ve had a couple people reach out to alert me to this news: Roald Dahl’s original sketches to be auctioned. These are drawings that Dahl himself made prior to publication of his memoir Boy – Tales of Childhood. Apparently Quentin Blake was booked up, so Ian Craig from the publishing house Jonathan Cape did the final … Continue reading "Dahl items at auction this week"
In case you haven’t spotted them in bookstores yet, the Roald Dahl Story Company has officially endorsed new books that are “inspired” by Roald Dahl characters. There are two of them so far: Charlie and the Christmas Factory and The Twits Next Door. I guess when a writer is gone and there’s no new content to … Continue reading "Brand New Stories Featuring Roald Dahl’s Iconic Characters Coming in…
I was really tickled a few weeks back to receive an email from Oliver Houston, a playwright living in the UK who is working on a new piece that will reference Dahl’s failed play “Your Loving Wife” (aka “The Honeys”). Oliver has been researching the play but couldn’t confirm which theatre it played in Bournemouth. … Continue reading "Lots of new information about “Your Loving Wife”"
Apologies to anyone who had issues with the trivia quizzes lately! Something broke and I had to get some help to fix it. Thankfully it’s all resolved now, so you should be able to resume putting your Dahl knowledge to the test!
In case you’ve been living under a rock, there have been a lot of news stories written about Roald Dahl in recent weeks, specifically about the decision by his publishers to rewrite some of the text in line with modern sensibilities. A lot of people somehow seemed to think Netflix was to blame. After a … Continue reading "The Roald Dahl rewrite kerfuffle"
I get so many comments from people who have purchased one of Lagoon Games’s Dahl board/card games that haven’t come with instructions. Unfortunately I don’t own any of the games myself so I’m unable to help. However, the manufacturer has a website where you can download the instruction sheets for a few of the games. … Continue reading "Missing instructions for your Lagoon Game?"
In December 2020, the British Medical Journal published a very special scientific paper: “Toxicological analysis of George’s marvellous medicine: literature review“. Graham Johnson, a consultant in emergency and paediatric medicine, and Patrick Davies, a consultant in paediatric intensive care, reviewed each of the 34 ingredients in George’s marvelous medicine against a poison control database to…
If you’re in the UK, there’s a new movie airing on Sky One on Christmas Eve called Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse. This movie is based on the “true story” of when six-year-old Roald Dahl met his favourite author, the 80-year-old Beatrix Potter. Two of the most famous children’s books authors meeting … Continue reading "Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse"