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Dickens in America: Pistols, Preachers and Prisons

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

3/4. In the company of cowboys, Miriam Margolyes follows the author's footsteps along the Ohio river to Louisville, Kentucky, where she attends the famous Derby. She also meets a pistol-toting Christian minister, visits the women inmates at the penitentiary and tours Virginia's tobacco factories.
(The series concludes 19 December)

Revised repeats from BBC4 Charles Dickens 's David Copperfield begins at 7.45pm on BBC Radio 4; part 12 of Bleak House is on Thursday at 8pm on BBC1; Oliver Twist continues on Friday at 9.15pm on BBC Radio 2

Contributors

Presenter:
Miriam Margolyes
Director:
Sarah Howitt
Producer:
Richard Shaw
Source: Radio Times

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