
Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.
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Air Date: 2010-01-04
Ep1: Liverpool to Eccles. Michael begins his journey on the world's first passenger railway line, learns to speak Sc...
Air Date: 2010-01-05
Michael is in Manchester to find out more about George Bradshaw himself. He also gets fitted for a trilby in Denton a...
Air Date: 2010-01-06
Michael travels back in time on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, finds out about the latest Roman discoveri...
Air Date: 2010-01-07
Michael searches for the last liquorice grower in Pontefract, discovers how the railways turned Hull into one of the ...
Air Date: 2010-01-08
Michael goes bird-watching on the wild cliffs of Flamborough Head, learns to decipher traditional knitting patterns i...
Air Date: 2010-01-11
Michael explores the origins of the temperance movement in Preston, samples the attractions of Blackpool, a resort ma...
Air Date: 2010-01-12
Michael returns to the historic Settle-Carlisle line to find out what has happened to it since he helped save it in t...
Air Date: 2010-01-13
Michael takes a steamboat tour of Lake Windermere, visits Wordsworth's home village of Grasmere and makes sausages wi...
Air Date: 2010-01-14
Michael meets the wild clansmen of Carlisle, the Border Reivers, witnesses a wedding in Gretna Green and visits a sec...
Air Date: 2010-01-15
Michael makes apple juice in the Clyde valley orchards, pays a thrilling visit to the top of the Forth Rail Bridge an...
Air Date: 2010-01-18
Michael finds out about free holiday trains for the GWR workers in Swindon, samples the Spa in Bath, and tries his ha...
Air Date: 2010-01-19
Michael samples local Cheddar strawberries, explores Cheddar Gorge and the famous caves, and visits one of the oldest...
Air Date: 2010-01-20
Michael finds out about Torquay's micro climate, goes salmon fishing on the Dart estuary and spends some of Totnes' n...
Air Date: 2010-01-21
Michael visits the largest clay mine in the world near St Austell, goes pilchard fishing in Mevagissey and finds out ...
Air Date: 2010-01-22
Michael searches for the lost church of St Piran, explores the last working tin mine in Cornwall and harvests oysters...
Air Date: 2010-01-25
Michael visits an architectural wonder, the Duke of Devonshire's stables in Buxton, helps to repair the ancient peat ...
Air Date: 2010-01-26
Michael visits the oldest working factory in the world at Cromford, explores the country's first public park in Derby...
Air Date: 2010-01-27
Michael meets the queen's saddler in Walsall, learns how to cook an authentic Indian curry in Birmingham and visits B...
Air Date: 2010-01-28
Michael relives the Coventry Blitz, meets the last pure breed Aylesbury duck farmer in Buckinghamshire and finds out ...
Air Date: 2010-01-29
Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. In a series of fou...