The Dark History of Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl is one of the most beloved children's authors in the world. But the man behind the books had a much darker mindset and personality than we were lead to believe. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Cinzia Listen to my podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6VfwtK0ydOe3rqXXNXdsZ9?si=kFnhlb1BSLimQgWBtvkpCA The Classical Academic Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheClassicalAcademic/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lady.of.the.library/ Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6341226-c-dubois Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:11 Thanks for 100K subscribers 2:25 Why The Witches Was a Banned Book 4:17 Why James & the Giant Peach has been Banned 4:53 Why Revolting Rhymes was pulled in Australia 5:26 The Dodgy Book Cover Controversy 5:44 What's a Snozzberry? 7:12 Why Children Should read Dark stories 8:50 Dahl's Racism 13:27 Dahl's AntiSemitism 16:32 Dahl's wife Patricia Neal 17:56 How Dahl helped Stroke Survivours 18:55 Dahl's time as a pilot and spy 20:07 His ex-wife & daughter speak out 20:50 The Dark Side of Dahl's personality 21:06 Dahl's abuse of his publishers 24:27 Conclusion Disclaimer: I am a Book Depository Affiliate. I am not sponsored for any of my reviews and will always disclose if a book I am reviewing has been sent to me for review.