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Great British Railway Journeys

Series 14

2023 • 15 Episodes

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

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Preston to Rawtenstall

S14 E01 • Monday, Jun 19, 2023 • Jun 19 • 28m

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.

Urmston to New Islington

S14 E02 • Tuesday, Jun 20, 2023 • Jun 20 • 29m

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.

Oldham to Wakefield

S14 E03 • Wednesday, Jun 21, 2023 • Jun 21 • 28m

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.

Wakefield to Leeds

S14 E04 • Thursday, Jun 22, 2023 • Jun 22 • 28m

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.

Bradford to Hebden Bridge

S14 E05 • Saturday, Jun 24, 2023 • Jun 24 • 28m

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.

Tilbury to Barbican

S14 E06 • Monday, Jun 26, 2023 • Jun 26 • 28m

Michael Portillo travels through the Britain of his youth from London’s Docklands and East End to the ‘city within a city’, the Barbican.

Waterloo to Regent's Park

S14 E07 • Tuesday, Jun 27, 2023 • Jun 27 • 29m

Michael Portillo continues his railway exploration of the post-war Britain of his youth on a journey from London to Cambridge, starting at South Bank.

Paddington to Ongar

S14 E08 • Wednesday, Jun 28, 2023 • Jun 28 • 29m

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.

Felixstowe to Norwich

S14 E09 • Thursday, Jun 29, 2023 • Jun 29 • 29m

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.

Brandon to Cambridge

S14 E10 • Friday, Jun 30, 2023 • Jun 30 • 29m

Michael Portillo completes his railway journey through the east of England during the post-war period, heading from RAF Lakenheath to the city of Cambridge.

Derby to Hinckley

S14 E11 • Monday, Jul 17, 2023 • Jul 17 • 28m

Michael Portillo explores the postwar Britain of his youth on a railway journey from the Midlands to the West Country, beginning in the city of Derby.

Coventry to Leamington Spa

S14 E12 • Tuesday, Jul 18, 2023 • Jul 18 • 28m

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.

Long Itchington to Moseley

S14 E13 • Wednesday, Jul 19, 2023 • Jul 19 • 28m

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.

Wolverhampton to Cheltenham

S14 E14 • Thursday, Jul 20, 2023 • Jul 20 • 28m

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.

Tewkesbury to Filton

S14 E15 • Friday, Jul 21, 2023 • Jul 21 • 28m

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.

Great British Railway Journeys

Series 14

2023 • 15 Episodes

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