Seasons & Episodes
The Passage Out
Miriam Margolyes retraces the route of Charles Dickens' 19th century road-trip though America to find out what has chang
Boston
After her transatlantic voyage she visits Boston's extraordinary School for the Blind - Helen Keller's alma mata.
New England
The Yale University Glee Club serenades Miriam Margolyes as she continues retracing Charles Dickens 's 19th-century road
New York
Miriam Margolyes continues retracing Charles Dickens's trip through America and finds herself going out on a night patro
Philadelphia
In Philadelphia Miriam Margolyes finds a city obsessed with Charles Dickens. It still has the "solitary prison" he wrote
Washington and Richmond
Miriam Margolyes meets a pistol-toting Christian minister and prison inmates in Washington DC, "the headquarters of toba
Pittsburgh to Louisville
Miriam Margolyes follows Dickens's trail inland 1,000 miles along the course of the Ohio River to Louisville, Kentucky,
The Midwest and St. Louis
Having sailed down the Ohio River on a Mississippi steamboat, Miriam Margolyes arrives in St Louis. She attempts to teac
Canada
Miriam Margolyes crosses the American/Canadian border to meet obsessive Victorian collectors and learns what it took to
The Journey Home
Before regaling New York's Lincoln Center with anecdotes of her pan-American trip, Miriam Margolyes visits the Shaker co
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