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Oliver Twist - Episode 1

The moment where Oliver Twist asks for more gruel is right up there with Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" line. You know it's coming, you wait, you get ready because it's on its way and then, bam! it's arrived: "Please sir, I want some more". Newcomer William Miller, as Oliver, wisely plays it straight as he holds out his bowl and blinks his sweet saucer eyes at wicked workhouse boss Mr Bumble (Gregor Fisher) in Sarah Phelps's roistering dramatisation of the Dickens story.

English
  • Originally Aired February 15, 2009
  • Runtime 90 minutes
  • Network PBS
  • Created December 1, 2010 by
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Name Type Role
Sarah Phelps Writer
Charles Dickens Writer
Coky Giedroyc Director