All Programs / They bent our ear

Dramatic readings of 14 travelers who came to the United States in 1820-1850 and wrote of what they saw.

Available Episodes

1964-03-09Fredrika Bremer00:29:11
1964-03-09Fredrika Bremer00:29:11
1964-03-02William Makepeace Thackeray00:28:52
1964-02-24Sir Charles Lyell00:28:56
1964-02-14Alexander Mackay00:29:14
1964-02-10Charles Dickens00:28:50
1964-02-10Charles Dickens00:28:50
1964-01-31Chevalier and Grattan00:28:55
1964-01-24James Silk Buckingham00:28:54
1964-01-20James Fenimore Cooper00:29:05
1964-01-20James Fenimore Cooper00:29:05
1964-01-14Captain Frederick Marryat00:29:02
1964-01-14Captain Frederick Marryat00:29:02
1964-01-06Francis Joseph Grund00:29:14
1964-01-06Francis Joseph Grund00:29:14
1963-12-27Harriet Martineau00:28:37
1963-12-27Harriet Martineau00:28:37
1963-12-23Frances Trollope00:28:50
1963-12-23Frances Trollope00:28:50
1963-12-16Captain Basil Hall00:28:35
1963-12-16Captain Basil Hall00:28:35
Subjects
Authors--19th century; Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865--Travel; Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865. Hemmen i den Nya verlden. English; Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855; Chevalier, Michel, 1806-1879. Lettres sur l'Ame_rique du Nord. English; Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851--Knowledge--United States; Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Novels. Selections; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Travel--United States; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. American notes; Early U.S. History; Foreign Literature; Geologists--Great Britain--Biography; Grattan, Thomas Colley, 1792-1864. Civilized America; Grund, Francis J. (Francis Joseph), 1804-1863; Hall, Basil, 1788-1844; Hall, Basil, 1788-1844. Travels in North America; Journalists--England--Biography; Journalists--United States--Attitudes; Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875--Travel--United States; Mackay, Alexander, 1808-1852; Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848--Diaries; Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848--Travel--America; Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876--Travel--United States; Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876. Society in America; News & Journalism; Satirists, English; Sociology; Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863--Travel--United States; Travel & Leisure; Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863--Travel--United States; Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863. Domestic manners of the Americans; U.S. Literature; United States--Description and travel; United States--History--19th century; Women's History
Creators
Lowell Institute; Miller, Perry, 1905-1963; WGBH (Radio station : Boston, Mass.)
Genres
Docudrama; History
Time Periods
1960-1969