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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.

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  • Originally Aired December 18, 2007
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Network BBC One
  • Created August 24, 2012 by
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  • Modified May 5, 2023 by
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Name Type Role
Charles Dickens Writer
Sarah Phelps Writer
Coky Giedroyc Director