Miriam Margolyes
Dickens in America (2005)
Season 1
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.
Released April 4, 2005
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.charles-dickens-character
Production Companies: Lion Television, BBC
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - 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.
April 5, 2005, midnight
S1E2 - Boston
After her transatlantic voyage she visits Boston's extraordinary School for the Blind - Helen Keller's alma mata.
April 12, 2005, midnight
S1E3 - New England
The Yale University Glee Club serenades Miriam Margolyes as she continues retracing Charles Dickens 's 19th-century road trip through America.
April 19, 2005, midnight
S1E4 - 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.
April 26, 2005, midnight
S1E5 - 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.
May 3, 2005, midnight
S1E6 - 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.
May 10, 2005, midnight
S1E7 - 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.
May 17, 2005, midnight
S1E8 - 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.
May 24, 2005, midnight
S1E9 - 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.
May 31, 2005, midnight
S1E10 - 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.
June 7, 2005, midnight
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: April 4, 2005
Last Air Date: June 7, 2005, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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