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Michael Portillo makes various railway journeys across the UK, using a 150-year-old Bradshaw's Guide (a collection of railway timetables and a guidebook). He looks at the history, culture and industry of the towns that he passes through, and the way that things have changed since Bradshaw wrote his Guide.
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Episode 1
29 mins
Michael Portillo takes to the rails to explore one of Britain's oldest surviving landscapes, the woods and pasture of the Weald in south-east England. At Bedgebury Pinetum, Michael finds the largest collection of conifers in the world.





