An exploration of the English rural idyll with John Betjeman's 1973 meditation on the residential suburbs which grew up alongside the Metropolitan Line, the first steam underground in the world.
This episode explores the County Down coastline between Belfast and Strangford Lough, all the way along the Ards Peninsula. Adrian travels to the port of Belfast, home of the Titanic, to road test the largest hydraulic...
Michael Portillo crosses the Severn Estuary to begin a new railway journey along the south coast of Wales. Eschewing the train through the 19th-century Severn Tunnel, he joins maintenance workers on a hair-raising secret...
Michael Portillo continues his south Wales coastal railway journey in Barry Island, where he investigates 'what's occurring' at the busy docks. The waters upstream of the Barry Island Peninsula are tricky to navigate,...
Michael Portillo's rail adventure along the south coast of Wales reaches the town of Port Talbot, known across the world for its steel production. He marvels as tons of molten iron are poured into railway wagons for...
Poet John Wedgwood Clarke explores the Red River in Cornwall, a watercourse barely more than a stream that has been heavily polluted by centuries of tin mining. Now, this powerful symbol of Cornish identity, home to some...
Michael Portillo travels the breathtaking rural coastline of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire in south Wales. From Carmarthen Bay, he tracks up the estuary and River Towy to the historic town of Carmarthen and Middleton...
On the final leg of his rail journey along Wales's southern coastline, Michael Portillo reaches the country's most westerly station. At Milford Haven, Michael learns from the harbour master about the biggest energy port...
