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Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/REX (1224675t) Cherie Lunghi as Nancy 'Oliver Twist' TV Programme. - 1982 - Set in 1848, Oliver Twist is the story of an orphan, born in a workhouse and brought up in harsh and cruel conditions, half-starved by the corrupt parish authorities Mrs Mann and Mr Bumble. He is unlucky enough to be chosen to ask for more gruel and is immediately found employment with Mr Sowerberry in an undertaker's establishment where he is treated quite as badly as he was in the workhouse. He escapes and makes his way to London where he falls in with the Artful Dodger, a boy of his own age, who introduces him to the villainous Fagin. Fagin runs a gang of boys who are pickpockets and thieves, and whose associates are Bill Sikes, a violent criminal, and his girlfriend, Nancy.