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The Witches

Roald Dahl

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Podcasts 10
Quotes 23
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

The book was mentioned in a conversation about how writers find focus, with a reference to the author's practice of tying himself to a chair in a shed to meet deadlines.

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And like Roald Dahl used to tie himself to his chair. And he did, this is like, he was writing... Whoa, the children's author? Yeah, he had a shed.

— Episode: MFM Presents: Adulting with Michelle But...

Episode: MFM Presents: Adulting with Michelle Buteau and Jo...

The book was mentioned in a conversation about how writers find focus, with a reference to the author's practice of tying himself to a chair in a shed to meet deadlines.

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And like Roald Dahl used to tie himself to his chair. And he did, this is like, he was writing... Whoa, the children's author? Yeah, he had a shed.

The Megyn Kelly Show

The book's content was altered to remove potentially offensive language. A passage about witches being bald was altered to include a statement about it not being wrong for women to wear wigs.

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In The Witches, there's a paragraph explaining the witches are bald beneath their wigs. And the new line is, it adds on at the end of the line, there are plenty of other reasons why women might wear w...

— Episode: Alex Murdaugh Takes the Stand and MSNBC’...

Episode: Alex Murdaugh Takes the Stand and MSNBC’s ‘Non-Apo...

The book's content was altered to remove potentially offensive language. A passage about witches being bald was altered to include a statement about it not being wrong for women to wear wigs.

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In The Witches, there's a paragraph explaining the witches are bald beneath their wigs. And the new line is, it adds on at the end of the line, there are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs. And there is certainly nothing wrong with that.

The Toast

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The Toast

They noted that the 2020 remake of The Witches on HBO Max was based on Roald Dahl's book.

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The Witches ... is based on the Roald Dahl book.

— Episode: S3 Ep183: Stickittothemaneosis: Thursday...

Episode: S3 Ep183: Stickittothemaneosis: Thursday, November...

They noted that the 2020 remake of The Witches on HBO Max was based on Roald Dahl's book.

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The Witches ... is based on the Roald Dahl book.

Morning Wire

The hosts noted that Puffin added a new line to the book, changing a passage about witches wearing wigs to a more inclusive explanation.

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they also added some passages, like in the book, The Witches, a character explains that witches wear wigs because they're bald. Well, Puffin has now added a line of dialogue that reads, there are plen...

— Episode: Rewriting Roald Dahl & Will Ron Run? | 2...

Episode: Rewriting Roald Dahl & Will Ron Run? | 2.25.23

The hosts noted that Puffin added a new line to the book, changing a passage about witches wearing wigs to a more inclusive explanation.

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they also added some passages, like in the book, The Witches, a character explains that witches wear wigs because they're bald. Well, Puffin has now added a line of dialogue that reads, there are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there are certainly nothing wrong with that.

The Matt Walsh Show

He reported that the new edition added a line noting witches are bald beneath their wigs and that many women wear wigs for various reasons.

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A paragraph explaining that witches are bald beneath their wigs ends with a new line: there are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.

— Episode: Ep. 1117 - The Woke Speech Police Are No...

Episode: Ep. 1117 - The Woke Speech Police Are Now Rewritin...

He reported that the new edition added a line noting witches are bald beneath their wigs and that many women wear wigs for various reasons.

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A paragraph explaining that witches are bald beneath their wigs ends with a new line: there are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.

Episode: Ep. 599 - Biden's Coronavirus Adviser Says People...

The host criticized the film adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel, saying it added a disability to the villain that was not present in the original book and could send a harmful message to children.

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The new adaptation of The Witches is facing backlash because the villain has a disability, which the studio said was never the intention for viewers to feel that the fantastical nonhuman creatures were meant to represent them.

The Witches teaches kids that limb differences are hideous, and the studio said they worked with designers to reinterpret the catlike claws described in the book.

Fresh Air

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Fresh Air

Dahl's darkly comic novel about a boy confronting a plot to turn children into mice.

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Netflix has rolled out four short adaptations of equally short stories by Roald Dahl, the author of such well-known longer stories as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and The...

— Episode: Keegan-Michael Key On The History Of Ske...

Episode: Keegan-Michael Key On The History Of Sketch Comedy

Dahl's darkly comic novel about a boy confronting a plot to turn children into mice.

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Netflix has rolled out four short adaptations of equally short stories by Roald Dahl, the author of such well-known longer stories as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and The Witches.

Episode: Best Of: Allison Russell / The Evolution Of Female...

The spooky novel was referenced as part of Dahl's catalog in the discussion of his shortstory film adaptations.

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He's the author of such wellknown longer stories as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and The Witches.

The Bulwark Podcast

This book was mentioned as having a very egregious example of editing where a line about women's wigs and gloves was inserted. The story itself was described as terrifying, involving witches plotting to genocide children, with a dark ending where the narrator is turned into a mouse.

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The witches for example, which has the really egregious example of editing you mentioned where you have that bizarre line about women's like wigs and gloves and everything.

— Episode: Tim Miller: Here's Why You Need to Shut...

Episode: Tim Miller: Here's Why You Need to Shut Up

This book was mentioned as having a very egregious example of editing where a line about women's wigs and gloves was inserted. The story itself was described as terrifying, involving witches plotting to genocide children, with a dark ending where the narrator is turned into a mouse.

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The witches for example, which has the really egregious example of editing you mentioned where you have that bizarre line about women's like wigs and gloves and everything.

The illustration of the grand witches rotting face frightened me so much that I literally had a post-it note over it in the book because the book scared me, that image gave me nightmares but I found the tension and the stakes and the creativity of it magnetic and so I wanted to read it over and over and over again.

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

The Witches was recommended as a very scary book. The 90s film adaption was recommended as a good, scary film, while the remake was not recommended.

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It's like that scene in the witches by Roald Dahl where behind the closed doors, that's when they take off their human masks and only then can they let their lizard faces breathe a little bit.

— Episode: The Gang Explores The Reptilian Conspira...

Episode: The Gang Explores The Reptilian Conspiracy

The Witches was recommended as a very scary book. The 90s film adaption was recommended as a good, scary film, while the remake was not recommended.

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It's like that scene in the witches by Roald Dahl where behind the closed doors, that's when they take off their human masks and only then can they let their lizard faces breathe a little bit.

Roald Dahl, amazing author.

The Witches adaptation was really good, too.

Very good. Very scary.

And don't bother with the Witches remake.

The original 90s Witches is where it's at.

I did. I didn't know there was a remake.

It was a straight to HBO Max thing. It was not good. It was directed by somebody of note, actually, but it was very, very bad.

And Hathaway plays the Grand High Witch.

You can't fill freaking Angelica Houston's square toed shoes. You just can't do it.

The Rubin Report

The book underwent changes to its language, deemed offensive, specifically altering a passage about women wearing wigs in the 2022 edition compared to the 2001 edition.

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don't be foolish. My grandmother said you can't go around pulling the hair of every lady you meet even if she is wearing gloves. Just you try it and see what happens

— Episode: Stephen Colbert's Brain Melts When He He...

Episode: Stephen Colbert's Brain Melts When He Hears This I...

The book underwent changes to its language, deemed offensive, specifically altering a passage about women wearing wigs in the 2022 edition compared to the 2001 edition.

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don't be foolish. My grandmother said you can't go around pulling the hair of every lady you meet even if she is wearing gloves. Just you try it and see what happens

Don't be foolish. My grandmother said besides there are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there are certainly and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.

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