What the Dickens: Looking back at adaptations of the great writer's work
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Channel 4’s first major drama commission served notice that the BBC was not the only place in town for weighty drama. Over four consecutive Sundays in November 1982, its first month on air, the upstart channel broadcast the Royal Shakespeare Company’s groundbreaking, eight-and-a-half-hour production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.