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OLIVER TWIST
8PM, BBC4 ★★★ The first half of the Christmas
2007 adaptation, with William Miller in the lead. It is entertaining fare, but don’t go expecting grit – Tom Hardy’s Bill Sikes is light on menace, while Timothy Spall’s Fagin (left) is more of a harmless eccentric than a sinister exploiter of children. Concludes tomorrow.