Aaron Tracy

Personally, I hate the idea of that amazing Agatha Christie mystery not being published anymore.

And I genuinely think it would be a tragedy if Huckleberry Finn disappeared.

But changing a dead author's words is the slipperiest of slopes.

It's really complicated stuff.

For some.

For others, it's easy.

Here's Margaret Atwood, the great novelist of The Handmaid's Tale, a book about a dystopian society that encourages censorship, speaking to BBC News.

So, if we follow Atwood's advice, no one should touch Dahl's books.

Readers should just be allowed to choose which stories of his they want to read.

Filmmaker Wes Anderson feels similarly to Atwood.

Anderson, of course, adapted several Dahl stories for Netflix.

He disagrees with me about the big issue here being that Dahl isn't alive to give his consent to changes.

If it were up to Anderson, he wouldn't even let a living Dahl make any changes.

You know, I'm probably the worst person to ask about this because, you know, if you ask me, should Renoir be allowed to touch up one of his pictures and modify it, I would say no.

It's done.

Somebody bought it.

It's in a museum.

I don't think even the artist.

I don't want even the artist to modify their work.

I understand the motivation for it, but I sort of am in the school where when the piece of work is done and we've...