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Great Continental Railway Journeys

Series 8

2025 • 20 Episodes

Series 8

Bradshaw's 1913 Guide in hand, Michael Portillo embarks on another rail journey.

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Pula to Pazin

S08 E01 • Monday, Mar 10, 2025 • Mar 10 • 29m

Michael Portillo mounts a valiant defence against fierce latter-day Roman gladiators in Pula's amphitheatre as he begins a journey across the Balkan countries of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Buzet to Pag

S08 E02 • Tuesday, Mar 11, 2025 • Mar 11 • 28m

Ably assisted by Lila, an expert labrador, Michael Portillo hunts for truffles in the Istrian countryside near the hilltop town of Buzet.

Knin to Split

S08 E03 • Wednesday, Mar 12, 2025 • Mar 12 • 28m

Michael Portillo’s railway adventure reaches the Dalmatian coastal city of Zadar, once an important Venetian trading hub and still a centre for the production of Maraschino cherry liqueur.

Sarajevo

S08 E04 • Thursday, Mar 13, 2025 • Mar 13 • 29m

In Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia, Michael Portillo traces the fateful last journey in 1914 of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie.

Mostar to Dubrovnik

S08 E05 • Friday, Mar 14, 2025 • Mar 14 • 29m

Michael Portillo enjoys a journey on the historic line from Sarajevo to Mostar, descending 600 metres through the Dinaric Alps, reflecting on the divisions which tour apart the old Yugoslavia.

Bergen to Flåm

S08 E06 • Monday, Mar 17, 2025 • Mar 17 • 28m

Michael Portillo embarks on a Scandinavian railway adventure from the Norwegian port of Bergen to the Danish capital, Copenhagen.

Myrdal to Heddal

S08 E07 • Tuesday, Mar 18, 2025 • Mar 18 • 28m

Michael Portillo’s rail journey continues on the Bergen Line, heading towards the Norwegian capital of Oslo, with its fine modernist architecture and 19th-century parliament building.

Larvik to Holstebro

S08 E08 • Wednesday, Mar 19, 2025 • Mar 19 • 28m

Michael’s saga resumes in Larvik on Norway’s southern coast, where he investigates the city’s prized natural resource, a distinctive blue rock named larvikite.

Aarhus to Odense

S08 E09 • Thursday, Mar 20, 2025 • Mar 20 • 29m

Michael Portillo’s Scandinavian rail adventure reaches Denmark’s second city, Aarhus, an architectural playground with dazzling contemporary buildings set alongside historic half-timbered houses.

Roskilde to Copenhagen

S08 E10 • Friday, Mar 21, 2025 • Mar 21 • 29m

Michael Portillo concludes his epic rail journey across Norway and Denmark, crossing an 18-kilometre box girder bridge between the islands of Funen and Zealand, known as the Great Belt Bridge.

Maienfeld to the Rhine Gorge

S08 E11 • Monday, Mar 24, 2025 • Mar 24 • 28m

Michael Portillo is transported 150 years back in time to the tiny Alpine village home of Switzerland’s most famous child, Heidi, and heads to the Rhine Gorge, also known as the Swiss Grand Canyon.

Sedrun to Schwyz

S08 E12 • Tuesday, Mar 25, 2025 • Mar 25 • 29m

Michael Portillo ventures into the bowels of an immense hydroelectric dam to learn how the Swiss use their mountainous environment to power the country.

Zurich

S08 E13 • Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025 • Mar 26 • 28m

In Zurich, Michael has a brush with the absurd in the anarchic paintings of the Dadaists and visits the Grossmunster Church to learn about the rebellious pastor at the centre of the Swiss Reformation.

Rotkreuz to Brienz

S08 E14 • Thursday, Mar 27, 2025 • Mar 27 • 29m

Michael Portillo scales the Swiss Alps on one of the the steepest cog railways in the world and visits the 19th-century fairy-tale Grand Hotel Giessbach.

Zweisimmen to Lausanne

S08 E15 • Friday, Mar 28, 2025 • Mar 28 • 29m

Aboard the Golden Pass Express, Michael Portillo wends his way in style down steep mountainsides from Interlaken to the Swiss Riviera. In Lausanne, he contends with a knife-wielding robotic arm.

Nantes to Lorient

S08 E16 • Monday, Mar 31, 2025 • Mar 31 • 28m

Michael Portillo’s rail travels take him to the north west corner of France, where he explores the beautiful regions of Brittany and Normandy and learns of their connections with Great Britain.

Brest to St Brieuc

S08 E17 • Tuesday, Apr 1, 2025 • Apr 1 • 28m

Michael Portillo’s railway journey reaches the naval port of Brest, home to France’s oceanographic fleet. He also learns how to make a sweet, buttery Breton cake called kouign-amann.

Rennes to Mont Saint-Michel

S08 E18 • Wednesday, Apr 2, 2025 • Apr 2 • 29m

Michael Portillo’s railway adventure reaches Rennes, capital of Brittany. At the Lycee Emile Zola, he hears how the school was used as a military court for the second trial of Alfred Dreyfus.

Bayeux to Argentan

S08 E19 • Thursday, Apr 3, 2025 • Apr 3 • 28m

In Bayeux, Michael Portillo admires the Bayeux Tapestry, the 70-metre-long work of art commissioned to record William the Conqueror's conquest of England and the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Lisieux to Giverny

S08 E20 • Friday, Apr 4, 2025 • Apr 4 • 29m

In the apple orchards of the Calvados region, Michael Portillo discovers how the classic digestif has been distilled since 1865 at the Pierre Huet estate.

Great Continental Railway Journeys

Series 8

2025 • 20 Episodes

Bradshaw's 1913 Guide in hand, Michael Portillo embarks on another rail journey.