Dickens in America | 03: Pistols, Preachers and Prisons

Duration: 27'32''

Synopsis

Miriam Margolyes follows the trail of Charles Dickens in North America. She follows the Ohio River to Louisville, improves her manners with an etiquette instructor, and visits a prison, a tobacco farm and the Kentucky Derby

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