Great British Railway Journeys - Season 12

Great British Railway Journeys - Season 12

Season 12

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Episodes15
DatesApr 26, 2021 - May 14, 2021
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Episodes

Oxford to Abingdon
Season 12Episode 130 min

Oxford to Abingdon

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.

Apr 26, 2021
Stoke Mandeville to Beaconsfield
Season 12Episode 230 min

Stoke Mandeville to Beaconsfield

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.

Apr 27, 2021
West Ruislip to Windsor
Season 12Episode 330 min

West Ruislip to Windsor

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.

Apr 28, 2021
Guildford to Aldershot
Season 12Episode 430 min

Guildford to Aldershot

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

Apr 29, 2021
Farnborough to Winchester
Season 12Episode 530 min

Farnborough to Winchester

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

Apr 30, 2021
Saxmundham to Dedham
Season 12Episode 630 min

Saxmundham to Dedham

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.

May 3, 2021
Colchester to Chadwell Heath
Season 12Episode 730 min

Colchester to Chadwell Heath

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.

May 4, 2021
Potters Bar to Cardington
Season 12Episode 830 min

Potters Bar to Cardington

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.

May 5, 2021
Sawbridgeworth to Cambridge
Season 12Episode 930 min

Sawbridgeworth to Cambridge

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.

May 6, 2021
Newmarket to Walsingham
Season 12Episode 1030 min

Newmarket to Walsingham

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.

May 7, 2021
Crewe to Shotton
Season 12Episode 1130 min

Crewe to Shotton

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.

May 10, 2021
Rhyl to Anglesey
Season 12Episode 1230 min

Rhyl to Anglesey

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

May 11, 2021
Bangor to Betws y Coed
Season 12Episode 1330 min

Bangor to Betws y Coed

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.

May 12, 2021
Blaenau Ffestiniog to Barmouth
Season 12Episode 1430 min

Blaenau Ffestiniog to Barmouth

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.

May 13, 2021
Aberystwyth to Newtown
Season 12Episode 1530 min

Aberystwyth to Newtown

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.

May 14, 2021

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