Dickens in America
- 2005
- Returning Series
- Documentary
- 1 season
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.
Latest: Season 1 · 2005
View all seasonsE1. The Passage Out
Apr 5, 2005 · 30m
Miriam 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.
E2. Boston
Apr 12, 2005 · 30m
After her transatlantic voyage she visits Boston's extraordinary School for the Blind - Helen Keller's alma mata.
E3. New England
Apr 19, 2005 · 30m
The Yale University Glee Club serenades Miriam Margolyes as she continues retracing Charles Dickens 's 19th-century road trip through America.
E4. New York
Apr 26, 2005 · 30m
Miriam 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.
E5. Philadelphia
May 3, 2005 · 30m
In 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.
E6. Washington and Richmond
May 10, 2005 · 30m
Miriam 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.
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