Dickens in America

1x05 Philadelphia

Air Date: 2005-05-03

Runtime: 30 minutes

Overview: In Philadelphia Miriam Margolyes finds a city obsessed with Charles Dickens. It still has the "solitary prison" he wrote about, a Dickens Society, a Dickens Drinking Club, his pet raven stuffed and mounted in the local library - and the only life-size statue of Dickens in the world.