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Dickens in America

20051 Season

Documentary

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Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

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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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Not available to stream in United States yet.

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Status: Returning Series
First aired: Apr 5, 2005
Studio: Lion Television, BBC

Time to finish

8 hrs

10 episodes. About 2 weeks at an hour a night.

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SERIES

Dickens in America

20051 Season

Documentary

Your rating

Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

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.

Where to watch

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Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Apr 5, 2005 · 30m
The Passage Out
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 · Airs Apr 12, 2005 · 30m
Boston
After her transatlantic voyage she visits Boston's extraordinary School for the Blind - Helen Keller's alma mata.
E3 · Airs Apr 19, 2005 · 30m
New England
The Yale University Glee Club serenades Miriam Margolyes as she continues retracing Charles Dickens 's 19th-century road trip through America.
E4 · Airs Apr 26, 2005 · 30m
New York
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 · Airs May 3, 2005 · 30m
Philadelphia
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 · Airs May 10, 2005 · 30m
Washington and Richmond
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.
E7 · Airs May 17, 2005 · 30m
Pittsburgh to Louisville
Miriam 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.
E8 · Airs May 24, 2005 · 30m
The Midwest and St. Louis
Having 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.
E9 · Airs May 31, 2005 · 30m
Canada
Miriam 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.
E10 · Airs Jun 7, 2005 · 30m
The Journey Home
Before 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.

Details

Status: Returning Series
First aired: Apr 5, 2005
Studio: Lion Television, BBC

Time to finish

8 hrs

10 episodes. About 2 weeks at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Episodes

0 of 0 watched

E1 · Airs Apr 5, 2005 · 30m
The Passage Out
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 · Airs Apr 12, 2005 · 30m
Boston
After her transatlantic voyage she visits Boston's extraordinary School for the Blind - Helen Keller's alma mata.
E3 · Airs Apr 19, 2005 · 30m
New England
The Yale University Glee Club serenades Miriam Margolyes as she continues retracing Charles Dickens 's 19th-century road trip through America.
E4 · Airs Apr 26, 2005 · 30m
New York
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 · Airs May 3, 2005 · 30m
Philadelphia
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 · Airs May 10, 2005 · 30m
Washington and Richmond
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.
E7 · Airs May 17, 2005 · 30m
Pittsburgh to Louisville
Miriam 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.
E8 · Airs May 24, 2005 · 30m
The Midwest and St. Louis
Having 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.
E9 · Airs May 31, 2005 · 30m
Canada
Miriam 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.
E10 · Airs Jun 7, 2005 · 30m
The Journey Home
Before 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.

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