These scenes were dark, in other words ... It was hard to see why they didn’t run back to the workhouse: at least Oliver Twist got a bowl for his gruel. This lot just held out their cupped ...

They were spellbound by the show based on Dickens' Oliver Twist and my mother recalls my ... uttered by Oliver as he is holding up his empty bowl, Mr Bumble chases him and grabs him by his ear.

It is one of English Literature’s most brutal deaths and a new exhibition shows Charles Dickens was worried that Nancy’s murder in Oliver Twist might ... The scene where Bill Sikes beats ...