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Great British Railway Journeys Season 14

June. 19,2023
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Great British Railway Journeys

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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Great British Railway Journeys

2010

Documentary series in which Michael Portillo travels the country by train.

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Ben Rowland
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Michael Portillo
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Great British Railway Journeys Season 14 Full Episode Guide

Episode 15 - Tewkesbury to Filton
First Aired: July. 21,2023

Michael visits the fairy-tale castle of Eastnor at the foot of the Malvern Hills, before heading to the Severn Estuary and Filton, the centre of Britain's postwar aviation industry.

Episode 14 - Wolverhampton to Cheltenham
First Aired: July. 20,2023

At the African and Caribbean Heritage Centre in Wolverhampton, Michael finds out about the impact of Enoch Powell's 1968 speech on immigration in Wolverhampton and across the nation.

Episode 13 - Long Itchington to Moseley
First Aired: July. 19,2023

Michael Portillo’s railway journey reaches the heart of the Warwickshire countryside, where work is underway the biggest project of new railway infrastructure in Britain for a hundred years: HS2.

Episode 12 - Coventry to Leamington Spa
First Aired: July. 18,2023

In Coventry, Michael recalls the destruction by the Luftwaffe of the city’s Gothic cathedral in November 1940, before heading to Leamington Spa to visit the Guide Dogs for the Blind National Centre.

Episode 11 - Derby to Hinckley
Episode 10 - Brandon to Cambridge
Episode 9 - Felixstowe to Norwich
First Aired: June. 29,2023

Michael Portillo continues his rail exploration of the east of England, starting on the seafront of Felixstowe and finishing in the plate glass campus of the University of East Anglia.

Episode 8 - Paddington to Ongar
First Aired: June. 28,2023

Michael Portillo ventures deep underground onto London’s newest railway: the Elizabeth Line. He travels across London before transferring to the Epping Ongar Heritage Railway.

Episode 7 - Waterloo to Regent's Park
Episode 6 - Tilbury to Barbican
Episode 5 - Bradford to Hebden Bridge
First Aired: June. 24,2023

Michael Portillo continues his postwar exploration of north west England in Bradford, Shipley and Hebden Bridge. In Centenary Square in Bradford, Michael encounters Bradford’s literary giant JB Priestley, author of An Inspector Calls. Just north of Bradford, at Shipley station, Michael discovers a nature reserve in the middle of a car park that's home to more than 14 species of butterfly and moth.

Episode 4 - Wakefield to Leeds
First Aired: June. 22,2023

From Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Michael visits the National Coal Mining Museum for England at Caphouse Colliery. He pauses to admire the tall spire of Wakefield Cathedral and its resident peregrine falcons before heading to the banks of the River Calder. In a vast factory, he finds the headquarters of a shirt manufacturer, Double Two, a pioneering wartime business co-founded by a Jewish refugee from Austria. In Leeds, Michael heads for the Chapeltown area to investigate the origins of the Leeds West Indian Carnival in 1967 and try his hand on the steel drums. In the city's Harehills district, he admires the back-to-back houses once condemned as slums but now highly prized for their character and community.

Episode 3 - Oldham to Wakefield
First Aired: June. 21,2023

Greater Manchester’s Metrolink tram delivers Michael to the former cotton town of Oldham. He heads across to Wakefield and the striking postwar sculptures of Barbara Hepworth.

Episode 2 - Urmston to New Islington
First Aired: June. 20,2023

Michael’s journey through north west England from Preston to Hebden Bridge reaches Greater Manchester, where Michael celebrates new beginnings for the nation in the years after the Second World War.

Episode 1 - Preston to Rawtenstall
First Aired: June. 19,2023

Michael Portillo strikes out to explore the Britain of his youth, starting at Preston’s Fulwood Barracks and heading across to Bury Bolton Street station in Greater Manchester.

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