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Highgate Cemetery

Season 1 Episode 102 | 26m 45s

London’s Highgate Cemetery contains some of the finest funerary architecture in Great Britain. Host Roberto Mighty shares Victorian-era attractions and visits the lives of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy; Mary Ann Evans/”George Eliot”, author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch; Black World War I hero Lt. Walter Tull; and discusses landscape architecture.

Aired: 10/01/21
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
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Host Roberto Mighty explores the legendary St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, in New Orleans.
Host Roberto Mighty tours Laurel Hill and West Laurel Hill Cemeteries in Philadelphia.
Join Host Roberto Mighty on an exclusive tour of New York’s spectacular Woodlawn Cemetery.
Host Roberto Mighty explores historic Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, KY.
Join Host Roberto Mighty at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, a veritable shrine for book lovers.
Join Host Roberto Mighty at Ohio’s Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati.
Visit Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery and Leonard Bernstein & Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Host Roberto Mighty visits National Historic Landmark Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Visit Spring Grove Cemetery and celebrate the lives of Frances Wright and Henry Boyd.
Visit more inspiring historical figures from London, Paris, and the USA.
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Host Roberto Mighty explores the legendary St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, in New Orleans.
Host Roberto Mighty tours Laurel Hill and West Laurel Hill Cemeteries in Philadelphia.
Join Host Roberto Mighty on an exclusive tour of New York’s spectacular Woodlawn Cemetery.
Host Roberto Mighty explores historic Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, KY.
Join Host Roberto Mighty at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, a veritable shrine for book lovers.
Join Host Roberto Mighty at Ohio’s Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati.
Visit Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery and Leonard Bernstein & Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Host Roberto Mighty visits National Historic Landmark Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Visit Spring Grove Cemetery and celebrate the lives of Frances Wright and Henry Boyd.
Visit more inspiring historical figures from London, Paris, and the USA.