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hello now this is the fiddler's arms i'd like to introduce you to billy who plays the artful dodger
or dodger as we call this programme and ellie-may who plays polly
and they are both in fagin's gang and we spend a lot of time in here don't we we do oh yeah
home away from home so should we show them around the pub all right here we go fagin lives upstairs with
the kids and minnie's the landlady she runs the pub and he lives upstairs and she often
gets involved in some of their little scams and a lot of their meetings happen over here
we have uh down here is this little snug this is the roughest pub in london
right the worst people ever in here so he jumps in and what happens is if they've stolen something
bad they shut that and then you pull this little lever go straight in a minute we'll do a jump cut
out comes there you go see billy jenkins
wow secrets of telly
this leads out this is an entire set that's been built okay in there we've taken over this
whole studio manchester and then it all
runs through so you can come here so what's good for this is in a production way in tv terms it
means that these guys as actors can run in and really feel like they're part of the whole world
it does feel like london a small part of london you can feel it you can feel it
uh we have a thing called the trans light and it's a special thing whereby
it's a backdrop so you can see the back of there's the docks and this is actually the river fleet now
in this period we've actually done a lot of homework it's myself and lucy wrote the series
most of the characters in this program they're not fictional from oliver twist or if they're not from
uh our minds most people are historical figures and there's a whole list of characters in this
who really existed that's did you know that yeah henry fox talbot there you go the very first very
good well if you watch this clip come around here because uh we'll cut to a clip now of an episode
coming up where we meet henry fox talbot the man who invented the calotype which is in
fact the first ever camera how would you like to take part in a little experiment testing out a new
invention of mine and a lot of stuff happens on the street pickpocketing all sorts dodger first
meets um fagin he does do your first job here yeah and there's a nice clip of that pick a card
any card here you go you're wasting your time mate you're wasting your time i'll shuffle them
right and then i'll give them a little more of a shuffle any more shuffling i'll shuffle off
oh just a little bit more don't worry oi trying to rob for me where you well have to
try harder than that to get this purse ha
should we show them the secret door this is the secret door
okay we'll show them the secret door okay so this is the secret door to fagin's lair the secret door secret
alleyway whatever you want to call it right so i'm come in here follow me all right we're coming here
this pops up there is no handle pops up nothing out you carry on polly
there you go this is not magic of television this is not fagin's lair
you cut to fagin's lair again through the magic of television this is
do you want to show them the secret hidy hole so when the police come where do we go oh
she's dropping nearly hurt myself then tang is the smallest so we get her to hide in here
very brilliant because it completely blends in no one's looking in there theres a kennel
usually for bullseye none of us can really fit in there this is polly's bed yeah that's where i sleep
a lovely extremely comfortable cupboard and then my ones up here you know i like the um old ladders and that
we have to have a special safety person to to tie him up upstairs
uh because he's very high and then tom chitling who's like the enemy the baddie
he sleeps up in that bed
you look around there you'll see his bed yes up there so it's all different levels and then
here's the roof there's the dangerous door there's nothing on the other side of that so yeah that's a door there's a
door to nowhere you've got to be careful all right you open that and you're going straight down
there's the rooftop charlie baker's bed this is where charlie sleeps another character
she likes the outdoors and that in there like the nature girl likes to be away from everyone else
she wants to be back at home in the north which she's not so here we are and then this is a roof and then obviously all
this lovely green will be replaced with wonderful uh green screen right behind your backs and then
and then the chimney tops and the roof terraces and then down there is the police station so this
is where the chief of police works again uh in this series this is the real chief of police a man
called charles rowan played by david threlfall and the police at the time weren't very good they
were kind of cobbled together it wasn't like the police we know now duff and blathers were both in
oliver twist they played hapless police officers so we've taken those characters
and put them with the real chief of police so what we've done in this series is basically mixed up
fictional characters with non-fictional characters into a big melting pot so it's kind of educational
as well as entertaining uh and sad and funny and all those things and there's a lot of oh there's
a light there's a lot of moments especially with the two of these well there's lots of fun in the
series and there's lots of cheeky chappy moments where he does this there's also moments where he
does this no no right right yeah yeah same with and same with ellie may she's and i must say
ellie may is her first this is ellie may's first ever television yeah and she's unbelievable and in
fact you know uh i think it's important he's done loads of stuff he's been in the crown
no i haven't i've done a little bit
but i think what's been so good about this series you'll meet all the different all the
other actors in it and we've got a lovely mix of people who've been you you'll recognize them brand
new people you've never seen before and it is and i think you'll enjoy the programme and uh yeah and
and your i think she's the ellie may here is a very good lesson to anyone out there who wants
to get into television who wants to do stuff that it's never too late it's never too late you don't
need drama school you dont need none of that i didn't have any of that never too late there you go you're lucky so you know yeah
so you know shes a yeah anyway it makes me feel quiet emotional
thanks for watching
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see you later
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