April 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 ...Read more
April 12, 2005 • 30m
After her transatlantic voyage she visits Boston's extraordinary School for the Blind - Helen Keller's alma mata.
April 19, 2005 • 30m
The Yale University Glee Club serenades Miriam Margolyes as she continues retracing Charles Dickens 's 19th-century road trip through America.
April 26, 2005 • 30m
Miriam Margolyes continues retracing Charles Dickens's trip through America and finds herself going out on a night patrol with off...Read more
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 ...Read more
May 10, 2005 • 30m
Miriam Margolyes meets a pistol-toting Christian minister and prison inmates in Washington DC, "the headquarters of tobacco-tinctu...Read more
May 17, 2005 • 30m
Miriam Margolyes follows Dickens's trail inland 1,000 miles along the course of the Ohio River to Louisville, Kentucky, in the com...Read more
May 24, 2005 • 30m
Having sailed down the Ohio River on a Mississippi steamboat, Miriam Margolyes arrives in St Louis. She attempts to teach at a hig...Read more
May 31, 2005 • 30m
Miriam Margolyes crosses the American/Canadian border to meet obsessive Victorian collectors and learns what it took to be a 19th-...Read more
June 7, 2005 • 30m
Before regaling New York's Lincoln Center with anecdotes of her pan-American trip, Miriam Margolyes visits the Shaker community of...Read more