Oliver Twist
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Oliver Twist
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Written by:
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Charles Dickens
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Marty Ross - adaptation
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Sam Mendes
About this listen
The classic tale in 3D, like you’ve never heard it before.
An Audible Original adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, executive produced by Academy-Award winning director Sam Mendes, with an original score by The Feeling’s Dan Gillespie Sells (Everyone’s Taking About Jamie), and with an all-star cast including Brian Cox (Succession) as Fagin, Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah) as Bill Sikes, Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) as Nancy, Adeel Akhtar (Four Lions) as Mr Bumble, Lucian Msamati (Gangs of London) as Mr Brownlow, Paapa Essiedu (The Lazarus Project) as Toby Crackit, Kit Connor (Heartstopper) as Noah Claypole, Diane Morgan (Philomena Cunk) as Mrs Mann, Julia Davis (Nighty Night) as Mrs Sowerberry, Nick Mohammed (Ted Lasso) as Mr Sowerberry and Patricia Allison (Sex Education) as Rose Maylie. And introducing Emilio Villa Muhammad as Oliver Twist and Elijah Wolf as the Artful Dodger.
Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist is born into the grimmest of 19th century English workhouses with a life of grinding poverty ahead of him. But the boy is a fighter and after being evicted from the workhouse for asking for 'more' and surviving a stint as an undertaker’s assistant, he walks many miles to London and finds a whole new life with a gang of young pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and their guardian Fagin.
Oliver’s adventures are only beginning as he finds his way into the home of wealthy Mr. Brownlow. Even there he is not safe, for Fagin and his even more dangerous colleague, the thief Bill Sikes, seek to snatch him back and lead him deeper into a life of crime. Only Nancy, Bill Sikes’ girlfriend, can ensure Oliver’s future safety, even if that puts her own life at risk. Full of twists and turns, the story moves towards a dramatic climax when murder prompts a manhunt and a final confrontation with the forces threatening Oliver’s future.
Sit back and listen as this 19th century classic is brought to the most vivid, cinematic life in an epic, immersive audio drama.
Also starring: Josephine Arden, Rachel Atkins, Annette Badland, Saffron Coomber, Jason Forbes, Pete Gold, Gerard McDermott, Lizzie Waterworth, David Holt, Harry Myers, Alistair Nwachukwu, Amaka Okafor, Stellan Powell, Richard Reed, Garry Robson, Lizzie Stables, Sam Stafford, Mark Straker, Harry Tuffin, Ben Whitehead, Elijah Wolf, Sarah Whitehouse.
Parental guidance is advised for younger listeners.
Now available in Dolby Atmos on Audible.
Public Domain (P)2022 Audible, Ltd
Oliver Twist
Fagin
Bill Sikes
Nancy
Jack Hawkins
Rose Maylie
Mr Bumble
Mrs Mann
Mr Brownlow
Mr & Mrs Sowerberry
Noah Claypole
Toby Crackit
Meet the creators
Executive Producer
Sam Mendes founded and ran the Donmar Warehouse in London for ten years. He was the founding director of Neal Street Productions and The Bridge Project. His work has been seen at the National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court, Old Vic, Young Vic, BAM, the West End and on Broadway. His films include American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Revolutionary Road, Skyfall, Spectre, 1917 and most recently Empire of Light. Awards include an Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture and three further Academy Award nominations, five BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, three Tony Awards, five Olivier Awards, the Olivier Special Award, two Directors Guild of America Awards, the PGA award, the Jason Robards Award, and the Hamburg Shakespeare Prize. He has also won the Director’s Guild Award for lifetime achievement.
He is an Honorary Fellow of the National Film and Television School, and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was made a CBE in 2000 and knighted in 2020 for services to drama.
Composer
Dan is an Ivor Novello award winning songwriter best known as being the lead vocalist and frontman of his pop band The Feeling. Their debut album, Twelve Stops And Home sold over a million copies, whilst their second album, Join With Us reached the No. 1 spot in the UK Charts. Dan’s career has seen him write for theatre, television, dance, and film.
In 2017, Dan composed the music for the coming-of-age musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie which opened at The Crucible Theatre, before transferring to the West End. 'Jamie' has since toured the UK and been seen across the world including Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Seoul. In 2021, the show was adapted into an Amazon Original Movie with Film4.
Dan has composed, arranged, and produced for and with a range of other artists as varied as Becky Hill, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Rufus Wainwright and Shakka Khan.
Director
David is a director and producer who has worked in audio for over fifteen years, often collaborating with writer Marty Ross. David has directed a wealth of multi-cast productions from the epic to the romantic, including The Simon and Garfunkel Story, Romeo and Jude, JK Rowling’s The Christmas Pig, Murder on the Orient Express, Moby Dick, Knight Sir Louis, Arabian Nights, Inseparable, Treasure Island and The Dark Water Bride
Writer
Born and raised in Glasgow, Marty left school at 16. After working as a hiking guide in the Scottish Highlands, on the Cornish coast and the Austrian alps, Marty got a break writing for the BBC, ranging from radio dramas about the likes of Else Lasker Schuler (My Blue Piano) and William Shakespeare (Rough Magick), to science fiction & horror serials Ghost Zone and Catch My Breath, as well as dramatisations of classic Scottish ghost stories. Marty has written a host of audio dramas including the Rondo-nominated Blood & Stone, Night of the Orchid, Medusa on the Beach, The Woman on the Bridge and Crooker’s Kingdom as well as Doctor Who & Dark Shadows audio drama. Since 2015 he has written primarily for Audible, starting with Romeo & Jude and continuing with Treasure Island; Arabian Nights; The Darkwater Bride; The Three Muskateers; Moby Dick and Sleeping Beauty. His stage play The Tale of Typhoid Mary was produced in autumn 2021, while Kisses in the Dark has topped podcast charts from Austria to Argentina.
Marty performs as a live storyteller with a repertoire ranging from original stories to classic folk tales, performed in diverse locations, from theatre spaces to the forests of the Scottish Isle of Arran, where Marty now lives.
What listeners say about Oliver Twist
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- CeceJune
- 2023-01-21
Oliver Twist
Very interesting abridged version, well dramatized. Highly enjoyable and addictive…. It was a nice gift.
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- Dawn
- 2023-03-15
Excellent performance
I love the way this book is performed like a movie instead of narrative like the rest. I’d tell my friends to get Oliver Twist for sure
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-12-21
Great Performance
The cast really breathed life into this Dickens classic. Special acknowledgement to the voice actor who portrayed Fagan. That said,, none were really less then he, in their individual efforts.
Good Stuff.
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- San
- 2022-12-07
Marvellous story
Wonderful characters! Well done!!! Couldn’t quit listening until it was done - such a delight to hear!
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- Allison T
- 2023-01-25
Wonderful!
This was a treat. The voices and music…just loved it! Will definitely listen again.
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- Nilton C. Teixeira
- 2023-04-02
Extraordinary adaptation!
This is an extraordinary audio adaptation of one of my favourite classics.
The production and direction are outstanding!
The sound is of the high quality, with 3D sound (what we used to call surround sound?) that made me jump out of my chair or look over my shoulder.
It’s a “movie on tape” with terrific characterization.
Now, this is not an audiobook that you can say that you have read the book (of course, you can fool yourself). This adaptation will give you a knowledge of the storyline.
I do recommend reading the book in full or try the unabridged audiobook (there are plenty of different editions available).
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- ToadyTheFree1
- 2022-12-07
JUST BRILLIANT! BRAVO! BRAVO!
This has been an absolutely captivating large cast audio production of OLIVER TWIST. Thank you everyone who made this happen. Being only 3 plus hours this is an intense bit of listening. Please just give it a
listen, superlatives are just not enough!
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-02-19
Really well done!
It felt like I was really in the theatre it was amazing. Would recommend it.
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- dursim
- 2022-12-09
Great book but performance needs a narrator.
The performance was good, but felt like a movie without screen display. During the fight parts was a pain to understand what was going on, also some dialogues have background sounds which make it even more burdensome
Definitely needs narrator to explain what is going on.
P.S: Love Diane Morgan but her accent was impossible
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-01-02
Lose Yourself in an old Tale
This audio book of Oliver Twist was so well done I was transported to the old streets of London. You could feel and almost taste and smell the poor city streets and the plight of the poor. It was a wonderful rendition of an old classic.
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