Dickens in America
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Play S1 E1Join 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.
Cast: Miriam Margolyes, Nathaniel Parker
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Season 1
10 episodes
- 1. The Passage OutMiriam 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 - and what hasn't.CC30minApr 5, 2005
- 2. BostonAfter her transatlantic voyage she visits Boston's extraordinary School for the Blind - Helen Keller's alma mata.CC30minApr 12, 2005
- 3. New EnglandThe Yale University Glee Club serenades Miriam Margolyes as she continues retracing Charles Dickens 's 19th-century road trip through America.CC30minApr 19, 2005
- 4. New YorkMiriam 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 Island, makes an unexpected discovery at the New York Public Library and is incarcerated in the notorious "Tombs" prison.CC30minApr 26, 2005
- 5. PhiladelphiaIn 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 raven stuffed and mounted in the local library - and the only life-size statue of Dickens in the world.CC30minMay 3, 2005
- 6. Washington and RichmondMiriam 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 also a tour of Virginia's tobacco factories.CC30minMay 10, 2005
- 7. Pittsburgh to LouisvilleMiriam 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 to improve her manners by an American etiquette instructor and attends the Kentucky derby.CC30minMay 17, 2005
- 8. The Midwest and St. LouisHaving 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 Chuzzlewit and meets the United Houma Indian Nation on a sacred burial ground.CC30minMay 24, 2005
- 9. CanadaMiriam 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.CC30minMay 31, 2005
- 10. The Journey HomeBefore 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 Military Academy.CC30minJun 7, 2005
Dickens in America
20051 season10 episodesReturning Series
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.
Creators and cast
- Created by
- Andrew Lockyer
- Studio
- Lion Television, BBC
Maturity rating
Not yet rated.
Audio languages
English
Where to watch
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