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Documentary series in which Michael Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country by train.

Genres: Travel
Station: BBC iPlayer (UK)
Rating: 8.5/10 from 2 users
Status: Running
Start: 2010-01-04

Great British Railway Journeys Season 12 Air Dates


S12E01 - Oxford to Abingdon Air Date: 26 April 2021 17:30 -

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Michael Portillo strikes out on another series of railway journeys, starting with a tour of the Home Counties and beyond in the city of dreaming spires, Oxford.


S12E02 - Stoke Mandeville to Beaconsfield Air Date: 27 April 2021 17:30 -

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Michael Portillo continues his travels through England's Home Counties at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, where he discovers the legacy of a German Jewish doctor who fled the Nazis.


S12E03 - West Ruislip to Windsor Air Date: 28 April 2021 17:30 -

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Michael Portillo heads for leafy Hatch End, where he investigates an illustrator whose work was so popular in the 1920s and 30s that his name entered the English dictionary.


S12E04 - Guildford to Aldershot Air Date: 29 April 2021 17:30 -

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Michael Portillo resumes his tour of the Home Counties in the picturesque and historic county town of Guildford.


S12E05 - Farnborough to Winchester Air Date: 30 April 2021 17:30 -

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Michael is heading for Farnborough, Hampshire, famous today for its airshow and home to what was then the Royal Aircraft Establishment.


S12E06 - Saxmundham to Dedham Air Date: 03 May 2021 17:30 -

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Armed with his 1930s Bradshaw's, Michael Portillo explores interwar East Anglia. Starting at Sutton Hoo, he visits the experimental Summerhill School and learns about the Kindertransport refugees.


S12E07 - Colchester to Chadwell Heath Air Date: 04 May 2021 17:30 -

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Michael Portillo continues his Bradshaw's-inspired journey through East Anglia, where he discovers the Essex origins of the BBC and joins the Women's Land Army to pick damsons at Tiptree.


S12E08 - Potters Bar to Cardington Air Date: 05 May 2021 17:30 -

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Michael's Bradshaw travels resume in leafy Hertfordshire, where he attempts a canoe slalom course, visits the estate of Dame Barbara Cartland and hears the shocking story of the R101 airship.


S12E09 - Sawbridgeworth to Cambridge Air Date: 06 May 2021 17:30 -

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Steered by his Bradshaw's guide, Michael Portillo heads for the Hertfordshire village of Perry Green to learn about Henry Moore became one of the defining artists of British modernism.


S12E10 - Newmarket to Walsingham Air Date: 07 May 2021 17:30 -

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Michael Portillo is in Suffolk on the last leg of his 1930s Bradshaw's inspired tour of East Anglia, visiting the racecourse at Newmarket and the Roman Catholic shrine at Walsingham.


S12E11 - Crewe to Shotton Air Date: 10 May 2021 17:30 -

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Oh, Mr Porter, what could he do? Michael Portillo is in Crewe, a town steeped in railway history and immortalised in Victorian music hall, to investigate the making of the iconic cinema classic, The Night Mail during the 1930s.


S12E12 - Rhyl to Anglesey Air Date: 11 May 2021 17:30 -

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Michael Portillo's 1930s Bradshaw's-inspired railway tour of North Wales takes him to a coast lined by magnificent castles and sweeping bays.


S12E13 - Bangor to Betws y Coed Air Date: 12 May 2021 17:30 -

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Michael Portillo continues his 1936 Bradshaw's-inspired railway tour of North Wales in the coastal city of Bangor before turning south from Llandudno Junction to travel the Conwy Valley Line to Betws y Coed, the gateway to Snowdonia.


S12E14 - Blaenau Ffestiniog to Barmouth Air Date: 13 May 2021 17:30 -

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In the Welsh mountains of Snowdonia, Michael Portillo reaches an abandoned mine, where in 1940 the wartime government sought sanctuary for the National Gallery's priceless art collection.


S12E15 - Aberystwyth to Newtown Air Date: 14 May 2021 17:30 -

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Armed with his 1930s Bradshaw's Guide, Michael Portillo travels from Aberystwyth into the Cambrian Mountains at Devil's Bridge and finishes in Newtown, Powys.

Michael's 250-mile tour of North Wales draws to a close in style at the birthplace of the nation's first classical music festival, Gregynog Hall, near Newtown. Michael is intrigued to discover that its founders, sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, used the fortune they inherited from their grandfather, a noted Welsh railway builder, to establish the country estate as a centre for art and music from 1933. In the glorious music room, a Welsh harpist helps to evoke the spirit of festivals past and present.

Next Episode of Great British Railway Journeys is

Season 15 / Episode 11 and airs on 01 April 2024 05:00

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