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Early Travellers in North America

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on BBC Two England

Six programmes providing eyewitness accounts from
British writers who travelled in North America in Victorian times. With extracts from their journals, contemporary stills and archive footage.
Bed and Board. The candid truth about American eating habits, with advice to tourists and emigrants about hotels, entertainment and etiquette. In many ways the opinions of early travellers still apply today - but not quite all.
Fanny Trollope observed: "I hardly know any annoyance so deeply repugnant to English feelings as the incessant, remorseless spitting of Americans."
Producer Charles Miller
* TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888

Contributors

Unknown:
Fanny Trollope
Producer:
Charles Miller
Isabella Bird:
Joanna David
Charles Dickens:
Adrian Rawlins
Rudyard Kipling:
Richard Lintern
Susanna Moodie:
Carolyn Pickles
William Makepeace Thackeray:
Robert Bathurst
Anthony Trollope:
Christopher Douglas
Frances Trollope:
Patsy Byrne
Source: Radio Times

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