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Best podcasts of the week: How to die on screen, according to the stars of Halloween to Stranger Things

In this week’s newsletter: Actor Michael Nathanson hears from his peers on what happens when your character meets their end in Playing Dead. Plus: five podcasts adapted for TV

The Guardian - UK

Reasons why Merseyside parents pick certain names for their new born babies

Certain names appear to be more popular in Liverpool than anywhere else

Liverpool Echo

Dickens and Prince by Nick Hornby review – cultural greats collide

A joyful examination of two artists from different centuries and the unlikely parallels in their life and work

The Guardian - UK

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Ex-Tottenham midfielder who caught Pochettino's eye as Oliver Twist now a filmmaker

As a 10-year-old he found fame as a child actor playing the title role in a BBC production of a Dickens novel - and when his football career was blighted by injury, his creative instincts took over again

Daily Mirror

'Dickensian Tories trapped in the past expect public to grovel like Oliver Twist'

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps' refusal to meet union bosses and treatment of striking workers exposes the Tories as a party who don't care about the public, writes Kevin Maguire.

Daily Mirror

Oliver Twist: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

This comedian has gone through the entire internet to find the funniest videos, including a Bo Burnham song, Issa Rae’s web series and Rowan Atkinson interviewing Elton John

The Guardian - AU

From Dover’s cliffs to degraded porn: the astonishing alchemy of Cornelia Parker – review

This fabulous survey of her 40-year career has everything from soiled hankies to exploding sheds, as well as a vampire-like Margaret Thatcher – confirming Parker’s genius for finding poetry in the world around us

The Guardian - UK

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Dodger: the Oliver Twist prequel that’s scary, starry and totally irresistible TV

This Dickens spin-off claps along like The Goonies and is so ace it’s been promoted from CBBC to BBC One. No wonder Christopher Eccleston and Julian Barratt were lining up to star

The Guardian - UK

'We're like Oliver Twist begging for crumbs': Inside the town being 'swallowed up' by its neighbour

“We need serious investment and we need appropriate investment, not little fiddly schemes, we need something serious."

Manchester Evening News

Council tax rise approved at rowdy town hall meeting where councillors shouted and traded nicknames

Members came up with names for opponents referencing bins and a character from Oliver Twist during the budget debate

Manchester Evening News

Modern-day Fagin gang that trafficked vulnerable young girls convicted

A predatory gang who used vulnerable young girls to commit fraud across the country have been likened to a modern-day Fagin plot from Oliver Twist.

Evening Standard

Oliver Twist given new spin in BBC prequel to Charles Dickens novel

Exclusive: Spin-off based on Artful Dodger and crime-lord Fagin brings food poverty to fore

The Guardian - UK

Dodger trailer gives first look at CBBC's Oliver Twist prequel series

Christopher Eccleston and David Threlfall will star in the CBBC show.

Manchester Evening News

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