Episodes Referencing This Book
June 19, 2023
Context:
Referenced indirectly through the character Bill Sykes when discussing how Wilde's punishment would be worse for him than 'for a Bill Sykes' - the murderer from the Dickens novel.
July 21, 2022
Context:
Extensively discussed as the hosts visit Saffron Hill, the location of Fagin's lair in the novel. A passage is read aloud describing Oliver's first impressions of the area.
December 20, 2021
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Mentioned as one of Dickens' earlier successful books before A Christmas Carol. Also referenced specifically when the hosts note that Saffron Hill, where Dickens visited a ragged school before writing A Christmas Carol, is where Fagin hangs out with the pickpockets in Oliver Twist.