The concept is good, but the execution is typically poor from the BBC. Some of the acting is good namely Dodger and Fagin, but the rest are very amateurish like a parody of a village play. Obviously we understand this is a work of fiction but no attempt has been made to actually get things right. In the mid 19th century, the average wage of a market worker was less than a shilling per day, yet the workers seem to be willing to gamble 2 shillings on a card trick. The production is also overshadowed by the BBC diversity rules, this leads to a view of victorian England having a 50% ethnic minority population. Worst of all the production suggests that the mill owner would be black.

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