Dickens in America | 3: Pistols, Preachers and Prisons
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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- Type: Analysis
- Channel: BBC Four
- Duration: 27'32''
- Broadcast date: 2005
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
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- Literary Resource

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