Dickens in America(2005)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2005-04-05
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 0.0
Votes: 0
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 10
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.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 10E01
The Passage Out
Air Date: 2005-04-05
Miriam Margolyes retraces the route of Charles Dickens' 19th century road-trip though America to find out what has ch...
E02
Boston
Air Date: 2005-04-12
After her transatlantic voyage she visits Boston's extraordinary School for the Blind - Helen Keller's alma mata.
E03
New England
Air Date: 2005-04-19
The Yale University Glee Club serenades Miriam Margolyes as she continues retracing Charles Dickens 's 19th-century r...
E04
New York
Air Date: 2005-04-26
Miriam Margolyes continues retracing Charles Dickens's trip through America and finds herself going out on a night pa...
E05
Philadelphia
Air Date: 2005-05-03
In Philadelphia Miriam Margolyes finds a city obsessed with Charles Dickens. It still has the "solitary prison" he wr...
E06
Washington and Richmond
Air Date: 2005-05-10
Miriam Margolyes meets a pistol-toting Christian minister and prison inmates in Washington DC, "the headquarters of t...
E07
Pittsburgh to Louisville
Air Date: 2005-05-17
Miriam Margolyes follows Dickens's trail inland 1,000 miles along the course of the Ohio River to Louisville, Kentuck...
E08
The Midwest and St. Louis
Air Date: 2005-05-24
Having sailed down the Ohio River on a Mississippi steamboat, Miriam Margolyes arrives in St Louis. She attempts to t...
E09
Canada
Air Date: 2005-05-31
Miriam Margolyes crosses the American/Canadian border to meet obsessive Victorian collectors and learns what it took ...
E10
The Journey Home
Air Date: 2005-06-07
Before regaling New York's Lincoln Center with anecdotes of her pan-American trip, Miriam Margolyes visits the Shaker...
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