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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: PeterGrant on December 06, 2020, 09:06:16 am

Title: Re: Roald Dahl’s family
Post by: Buc on December 06, 2020, 10:38:05 am

Superb writer BFG loved that film .

Wasn't aware of his views all I knew about him was his height 6ft5in a fighter pilot born in Wales .

Title: Roald Dahl’s family
Post by: PeterGrant on December 06, 2020, 09:06:16 am

Have issued an apology for Dahl’s anti-Semitic views.

Seems odd to me. I like Dahl’s work and I don’t think his comments in 1983 are defensible but not sure why his family feel the need to apologise on behalf of a dead person 37 years later.