The Sunday Telegraph London, December 23rd, 2007
'Aha!' you exclaim, summoning hitherto unsuspected reserves of seasonal insincerity. 'Just what I wanted: another (bloody) adaptation of Oliver Twist' [Tuesday-Saturday, BBC1 ]. But it became clear from the start that director Coky Giedroyc and writer Sarah Phelps were determined to rescue Oliver Twist from the land of fairy tale and turn it back into drama.
It opened with a shot of a bare tree at night. Then came Oliver's mother, battling against a gale and collapsing outside the workhouse gates. Immediately, you had atmosphere, menace and a sense of real bravado. Meanwhile Martin Phipps's B...
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