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Michael Portillo during filming at Taunton station in 2017. Great British Railway Journeys is a 2010–present BBC documentary series presented by Michael Portillo, a former Conservative MP and Cabinet Minister who was instrumental in saving the Settle to Carlisle line from closure in 1989.
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo FRSGS (/ p ɔːr ˈ t ɪ l oʊ / por-TIL-oh; [a] born 26 May 1953) [1] is a British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative Party politician. His broadcast series include railway documentaries such as Great British Railway Journeys and Great Continental Railway Journeys.
Great Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television.The premise of each programme is that the presenter, typically a well-known figure from the arts or media, would make a journey by train, usually through a country or to a destination to which they had a personal connection.
Great Coastal Railway Journeys is a BBC documentary series produced by Naked West and presented by Michael Portillo, [1] a former Conservative MP and Minister of State for Transport. [ 2 ] Following the format of Great British Railway Journeys and related series with Portillo as presenter, each episode of this series features a coastal railway ...
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Great Continental Railway Journeys is a British television documentary series presented by Michael Portillo. [1] In the early series, Portillo explores the railway networks of continental Europe , but in later series he also ventured further afield.
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Following the format of the highly successful Great British Railway Journeys and related series with Portillo as presenter, each episode features a railway journey in south-east Asia using Bradshaw's Through Routes to the Chief Cities, and Bathing, and Health Resorts of the World (1913) [a] as a historical reference, in order to consider how ...