Great British Railway Journeys - Episodes- Followmy.tv

Michael Portillo experiences a terrifying ‘victory roll' in a World War II Spitfire, meets a biographer of A.A. Milne and lends a hand at the community-owned... read more

Michael visits the village of Ditchling, once the home of a community of Catholic artists, before heading to Bexhill-on-Sea to learn about the role of ARP wa... read more

Michael Portillo follows his 1930s Bradshaw's guide to the unspoilt East Sussex port of Rye, where he learns about the loss of a generation of lifeboatmen in... read more

Michael heads to the splendid Walmer Castle, home during the 1920s to a Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Lord Beauchamp, whose openly homosexual lifestyle le... read more

Armed with his interwar copy of Bradshaw's Guide to the Railways, Michael reaches the Kent seaside resort of Herne Bay, where he learns about a pioneering av... read more

Michael continues his journeys in greater London, beginning on its southeastern fringe in the village of Chislehurst and ending up in Kennington to learn abo... read more

Michael continues his travels through the capital in the heart of London's East End. He begins in Hackney Wick, which today is transformed from the time of h... read more

Michael's rail tour of London continues in Hampstead, where Sigmund Freud found refuge from the Nazis. He ends up in Finsbury to learn about the influence of... read more

Armed with his 1930s Bradshaw's guide, Michael is in London, where he tracks the River Thames from east to west. Starting in Dagenham, he ends up at the icon... read more