Michael Portillo begins a new season of railway journeys this week.
The new season will take viewers through 1930s Britain, armed with an interwar 1936 Bradshaw’s guide.
Season Eleven, Episode One:
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Michael explores an unmistakably modern era of glamorous locomotives, cinema, and dance halls but also a time of high unemployment and widespread poverty, when storm clouds gathered across the Channel.
Episode Two:
Michael is in Northumbria en route to the Highlands. On this leg, he explores Kielder Forest, beginning at the County Show in Stocksfield. Michael discovers what lay behind a national initiative to plant one of the largest man-made woodlands in Europe.
Great British Railway Journeys – New Season premieres Tuesday, 3 November at 7.30pm
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