Name: Great British Railway Journeys
Rating: 8.5

S01E01 - Liverpool to Eccles Air Date: 04 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo journeys around Britain by train. He learns to speak Scouse in Liverpool and finds out about the first railway fatality.

S01E02 - Manchester to Bury Air Date: 05 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo travels around Britain by train. He is fitted for a trilby in Denton and discovers the role the railways had in the creation of fish and chips.

S01E03 - Todmorden to York Air Date: 06 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael travels back in time on the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway and sees the latest Roman discoveries in York.

S01E04 - Pontefract to Bridlington Air Date: 07 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael searches for the last liquorice grower in Pontefract and goes fishing for sea bass in Bridlington.

S01E05 - Filey to Scarborough Air Date: 08 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo learns to decipher traditional knitting patterns in Filey and meets Scarborough's 4,000-year-old Gristhorpe Man.

S01E06 - Preston to Morecambe Air Date: 11 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo explores the temperance movement's origins in Preston, visits Blackpool and meets Morecambe Bay's keeper of the sands.

S01E07 - Settle to Garsdale Air Date: 12 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo revisits the Settle-Carlisle line, explores the Ribblehead viaduct and learns about the navvies who helped to build it.

S01E08 - Windermere to Kendal Air Date: 13 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo takes a steamboat tour of Lake Windermere, visits Wordsworth's home village of Grasmere and makes sausages with a local Herdwick sheep farmer.

S01E09 - Carlisle to Glasgow Air Date: 14 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo meets the wild Border Reivers clansmen, witnesses a wedding in Gretna Green and visits a World War I munitions factory.

S01E10 - Edinburgh to Kirkcaldy Air Date: 15 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo makes apple juice in the Clyde Valley orchards, scales the Forth Rail Bridge and relives childhood memories in Kirkcaldy.

S01E11 - Swindon to Bristol Air Date: 18 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo finds out about free holiday trains for the GWR workers in Swindon, samples the spa in Bath and tries his hand at glass blowing in Bristol.

S01E12 - Yatton to Weston Super Mare Air Date: 19 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael samples Cheddar strawberries, explores Cheddar Gorge and the famous caves, and visits one of the country's oldest piers at Weston-super-Mare.

S01E13 - Torquay to Totnes Air Date: 20 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo finds out about Torquay's microclimate, goes salmon fishing on the Dart estuary and spends some of Totnes's new local currency.

S01E14 - Bugle to Mevagissey Air Date: 21 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo visits the largest clay mine in the world, goes pilchard fishing in Mevagissey and finds out how the estate of Heligan shaped British gardens.

S01E15 - Truro to Penzance Air Date: 22 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo searches for the lost church of St Piran, explores the last working tin mine in Cornwall and harvests oysters on the Helford River.

S01E16 - Buxton to Matlock Air Date: 25 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo helps to repair the ancient peat landscape of the Peak District and travels on the historic steam railway to Rowsley.

S01E17 - Cromford to Burton-on-Trent Air Date: 26 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo visits the oldest working factory in the world at Cromford and explores the country's first public park in Derby.

S01E18 - Walsall to Bournville Air Date: 27 January 2010 18:30 -

Series in which Michael Portillo travels the country by train. He meets the Queen's saddler in Walsall and learns how to cook an Indian curry in Birmingham.

S01E19 - Coventry to Watford Air Date: 28 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael Portillo relives the Coventry Blitz and finds out how the trains helped to evacuate millions of children during World War II.

S01E20 - St Pancras to Westminster Air Date: 29 January 2010 18:30 -

Michael visits one of the grandest railway stations and hotels in the country - St Pancras. He also rides the world's first tube line to Smithfield market.

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