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Great Continental Railway Journeys

  • TV Series
  • 2012– 2012–
  • 1h
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Michael Portillo in Great Continental Railway Journeys (2012)
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Michael Portillo travels across the European continent with his handy Bradshaw guide book. Looking at history and trying 21st century things that changed since before The Great War...Michael Portillo travels across the European continent with his handy Bradshaw guide book. Looking at history and trying 21st century things that changed since before The Great War...Michael Portillo travels across the European continent with his handy Bradshaw guide book. Looking at history and trying 21st century things that changed since before The Great War...
IMDb RATING
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367
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  • Stars
    • Michael Portillo
    • Andrew Martin
    • Mitch Waite
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    • Andrew Martin
    • Mitch Waite
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    Kenneth Letts
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    • Trivia
      Michael Portillo travels across the European continent with his handy Bradshaw guide book.
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      [introduction to each episode]

      Michael Portillo: I'm embarking on a new railway adventure that will take me across the heart of Europe. I'll be using this - my Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, dated 1913 - which opened up an exotic world of foreign travel for the British tourist. It told travellers where to go, what to see, and how to navigate the thousands of miles of tracks criss-crossing the Continent. Now, a century later, I'm using my copy to reveal an era of great optimism and energy, where technology, industry, science and the arts were flourishing. I want to rediscover that lost Europe that, in 1913, couldn't know that its way of life would shortly be swept aside by the advent of war.

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    5/10
    Great places that need a new gude
    As I'm not able to travel myself I always enjoy TV programmes that take us on a journey, showing us interesting places and people. Sadly I can't watch this now without getting upset that Portillo is enjoying explorations that he and his fellow Brexiteers have made much harder for British people. Of course with his Spanish passport he can continue to travel around Europe quickly and as often as he likes. I hope the BBC don't continue to pay him for trips that his campaigning has made difficult for his viewers. Let's have some European guides introduce us to their countries instead?!
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      • November 8, 2012 (United Kingdom)
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