Oliver Twist
Created by Sarah Phelps
On BBC One
A faithful period adaptation of Dickens' social critique, following an orphan's journey from workhouse cruelty through criminal underworld to redemption, grounded in Victorian atmosphere and the material conditions of poverty.
An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
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