First published MAR 4, 2023 Updated 17 hours ago Podcast: The Detail This is  The Detail 's Long Read - one in-depth story read by us every weekend This week, it's  Roald Dahl and the Big Fat Fuss , an opinion piece written and read aloud here by  Madison Hamill  and published on  Newsroom.co.nz . Madison Hamill is a book editor and author of the award-winning essay collection Specimen . When the global news media caught wind that new editions of Roald Dahl's classic children's books had been rewritten to take out the 'offensive' sections, she decided to wade into the ensuing culture war herself, looking at the relationship between editors and authors in producing work, and the trend of putting modern sensibilities into historical contexts.

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