Eleanor & Alasdair Read That

We Read The Witches


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Eleanor and Alasdair read a Roald Dahl book about some absolutely horrid women. "Which one?" you quite reasonably ask. It's The Witches: a grotesquely funny revenge caper fuelled by 'stranger danger' anxiety. What do you do when a beloved children's author is a bit of a bigot? Which of Dahl's books scandalised nine-year-old Eleanor's schoolteacher? And exactly what accent was Anne Hathaway doing in the movie? Listen, and find out if The Witches really is a revolting classic or just a rotten stinker.

Content Warning: References to antisemitism, misogyny & fatphobia. And we do impressions of the actor Bill Paterson.

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Eleanor & Alasdair Read ThatBy Eleanor Morton & Alasdair Beckett-King

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