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Documentary series in which Michael Portillo travels the country by train.
Episode 15 : Northallerton to Chester-Le-Street
April. 05,2024
Michael Portillo confronts a detachment of Gurkhas, produces a fine heritage cheese and discovers a monster cracker, which is key to making plastic.
Episode 14 : York to Skipton
April. 04,2024
Michael Portillo’s journey finds him in York, a paradise for rail enthusiasts. He discovers the gardens at Harlow Carr in Harrogate and checks into the headquarters of Yorkshire Tea.
Episode 13 : Lincoln to York
April. 03,2024
Michael Portillo’s postwar journey from Merseyside to Teesside resumes at Brayford Pool in Lincoln, where England’s oldest canal, the Fossdyke, meets the city of Lincoln.
Episode 12 : Derby to Nottingham
April. 02,2024
Michael Portillo reaches the jet age in the Derby suburb of Peartree, where he tours the engineering colossus Rolls-Royce.
Episode 11 : Liverpool to Uttoxeter
April. 01,2024
Michael Portillo twists and shouts through postwar Liverpool, visiting the strikingly contemporary Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and visits the former home of artist and poet Adrian Henri.
Episode 10 : Dundee to Loch of the Lowes
March. 29,2024
Michael’s rail journey through post-war Scotland takes him over the River Tay to Dundee on the trail of Joseph McKenzie, the father of modern Scottish photography.
Episode 9 : Edinburgh to Queensferry
March. 28,2024
At the former Midlothian mining village of Newtongrange, Michael meets the son of a miner whose name loomed large in the disputes of the 1970s and 1980s, 'Red' Mick McGahey.
Episode 8 : Shawlands to Livingston
March. 27,2024
Michael Portillo continues his postwar Scottish railway adventure, this time from Glasgow to the capital, Edinburgh.
Episode 7 : Glasgow to Cumbernauld
March. 26,2024
At the home of Scottish football, Glasgow’s Hampden Park stadium, Michael admires the oldest football trophy in the world and hears how the 'passing game' was born there.
Episode 6 : Loch Lomond to Kelvinbridge
March. 25,2024
Michael Portillo boards the West Highland Line to begin a railway journey across Scotland’s central belt, from the Arrochar Alps to the Loch of the Lowes.
Episode 5 : Wokingham to Heathrow
March. 22,2024
Michael goes on a tour around Heathrow Airport, taking an eerie walk around the mothballed Terminal 1 building and ending up atop the iconic 87.5 metre control tower.
Episode 4 : Havant to Guildford
March. 21,2024
Michael Portillo reaches Havant, where the Scalextric factory was located, and Haslemere, the surprise birthplace of a musical phenomenon: the plastic recorder.
Episode 3 : Swanage to Portchester
March. 20,2024
Michael Portillo reaches England’s south coast to continue his exploration of postwar Britain, beginning on the steam-powered Swanage Railway in Dorset.
Episode 2 : Chippenham to Yeovil
March. 19,2024
Michael Portillo joins Navy Wings pilots for a spectacular close formation flight in the skies over Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton and visits the magnificent Elizabethan mansion of Longleat.
Episode 1 : Denham to Swindon
March. 18,2024
Beginning at London Marylebone, the last great Victorian railway terminus to be built in the capital, Michael Portillo embarks on a postwar exploration of Britain’s southern counties.
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