• 2005
  • 30m
Dickens in America

Summary Celebrated British actress Miriam Margolyes replicates Charles Dickens' 1842 journey across America. Along the way she explores Dickens' fame, his experiences, and her own reflections on the culture of the United States. View more details

  • 2005
  • 30m

Dickens in America

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Miriam Margolyes Nathaniel Parker Juan Williams William Schneider

All cast & crew

9.3

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Dec 31, 2004

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : New York City, New York, USA

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Summary Celebrated British actress Miriam Margolyes replicates Charles Dickens' 1842 journey across America. Along the way she explores Dickens' fame, his experiences, and her own reflections on the culture of the United States. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Dec 31, 2004

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : New York City, New York, USA

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Miriam Margolyes in Dickens in America (2005)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Apr 04, 2005
The Passage Out
Celebrated actress and Charles Dickens expert Miriam Margolyes boards the RMS Queen Mary 2 as she prepares to follow Dickens' path as he journeyed to the United States of America in 1842.
Episode 2 • Apr 11, 2005
Boston
Miriam Margolyes tours Boston, visiting the locations which Charles Dickens visited on his landmark 1842 trip.
Episode 3 • Apr 18, 2005
New England
The Yale University Glee Club serenades Miriam Margolyes as she continues retracing Charles Dickens 's 19th-century road trip through America.
Episode 4 • Apr 25, 2005
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.
Episode 5 • May 02, 2005
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.
Episode 6 • May 09, 2005
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.
Episode 7 • May 16, 2005
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.
Episode 8 • May 23, 2005
St Louis & the Mid West
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.
Episode 9 • May 30, 2005
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.
Episode 10 • Jun 06, 2005
Journey's End
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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