Roald Dahl’s widow and biographer say first Charlie was black but writer was persuaded to make him white Roald Dahl originally wanted the eponymous hero of his much-loved children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to be black,his widow has said. In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s nowadays programme for Roald Dahl day on Wednesday, Liccy Dahl said: “His first Charlie that he wrote about was a diminutive black boy.” Related: Quentin Blake: ‘A original Roald Dahl character to draw, and nearly 40 years after my first’ Roald Dahl originally wanted Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to be black #r4today pic.twitter.com/h2P4NkI78fContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com