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S01E01: 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.

Genres:

Drama

Air Date:

Dec 18, 2007

Runtime:

30 minutes

Production:

BBC One , WGBH , BBC

Casts:

Gregor Fisher, Edward Fox, Tom Hardy, Timothy Spall, Sophie Okonedo, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Morven Christie, William Miller, Sarah Lancashire, Nicola Walker, Adam Arnold, John Sessions, Michelle Gomez, Rob Brydon, Anna Massey, Connor Catchpole, Paul Chahidi, Anton Saunders, Edward Tudor-Pole, Ruby Bentall