Dickens in America (2005)
Join actress and Dickens enthusiast Miriam Margolyes on a 10-part journey that follows the route of Charles Dickens tour of the United States and Canada in 1842. It was this trip upon which he based his travel book, American Notes - a comic, critical record of the country's morals, flaws and fashions.
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Episodes
- 1 1. The Passage Out2005-04-05 · 30mMiriam Margolyes retraces the route of Charles Dickens' 19th century road-trip though America to find out what has changed in the USA since the great author's visit to the States -
- 2 2. Boston2005-04-12 · 30mAfter her transatlantic voyage she visits Boston's extraordinary School for the Blind - Helen Keller's alma mata.
- 3 3. New England2005-04-19 · 30mThe Yale University Glee Club serenades Miriam Margolyes as she continues retracing Charles Dickens 's 19th-century road trip through America.
- 4 4. New York2005-04-26 · 30mMiriam Margolyes continues retracing Charles Dickens's trip through America and finds herself going out on a night patrol with officers of the NYPD. She also visits Roosevelt Islan
- 5 5. Philadelphia2005-05-03 · 30mIn Philadelphia Miriam Margolyes finds a city obsessed with Charles Dickens. It still has the "solitary prison" he wrote about, a Dickens Society, a Dickens Drinking Club, his pet
- 6 6. Washington and Richmond2005-05-10 · 30mMiriam Margolyes meets a pistol-toting Christian minister and prison inmates in Washington DC, "the headquarters of tobacco-tinctured saliva", according to Charles Dickens. There's
- 7 7. Pittsburgh to Louisville2005-05-17 · 30mMiriam Margolyes follows Dickens's trail inland 1,000 miles along the course of the Ohio River to Louisville, Kentucky, in the company of cowboys. Along the way she is taught how t
- 8 8. The Midwest and St. Louis2005-05-24 · 30mHaving sailed down the Ohio River on a Mississippi steamboat, Miriam Margolyes arrives in St Louis. She attempts to teach at a high school, visits the inspiration for Martin Chuzzl
- 9 9. Canada2005-05-31 · 30mMiriam Margolyes crosses the American/Canadian border to meet obsessive Victorian collectors and learns what it took to be a 19th-century lady's maid. Plus a visit to Niagara Falls
- 10 10. The Journey Home2005-06-07 · 30mBefore regaling New York's Lincoln Center with anecdotes of her pan-American trip, Miriam Margolyes visits the Shaker community of Mount Lebanon and the army cadets of West Point M
Cast
Miriam MargolyesHost
Nathaniel ParkerVoice of Charles DickensYou might also like
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