
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.
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...
Air Date: 2005-04-12
After her transatlantic voyage she visits Boston's extraordinary School for the Blind - Helen Keller's alma mata.
Air Date: 2005-04-19
The Yale University Glee Club serenades Miriam Margolyes as she continues retracing Charles Dickens 's 19th-century r...
Air Date: 2005-04-26
Miriam Margolyes continues retracing Charles Dickens's trip through America and finds herself going out on a night pa...
Air Date: 2005-05-03
In Philadelphia Miriam Margolyes finds a city obsessed with Charles Dickens. It still has the "solitary prison" he wr...
Air Date: 2005-05-10
Miriam Margolyes meets a pistol-toting Christian minister and prison inmates in Washington DC, "the headquarters of t...
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...
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...
Air Date: 2005-05-31
Miriam Margolyes crosses the American/Canadian border to meet obsessive Victorian collectors and learns what it took ...
Air Date: 2005-06-07
Before regaling New York's Lincoln Center with anecdotes of her pan-American trip, Miriam Margolyes visits the Shaker...