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S5 E1 - Manchester to Birkenhead
S5 E2 - Southport to Leyland
S5 E3 - Preston to Rochdale
S5 E4 - Haworth to Huddersfield
S5 E5 - Honley to Chesterfield
S5 E6 - London Euston to Cheddington
S5 E7 - Bletchley to Newport Pagnell
S5 E8 - Northampton to Nuneaton
S5 E9 - Leicester to Loughborough
S5 E10 - Nottingham to Leeds
S5 E11 - Southampton to Basingstoke
S5 E12 - Winchfield to Crowthorne
S5 E13 - Wokingham to Bradford-on-Avon
S5 E14 - Chippenham to Gloucester
S5 E15 - Cheltenham to Wolverhampton
S5 E16 - Norwich to Brandon
S5 E17 - Ipswich to Chelmsford
S5 E18 - Ilford to Rochester
S5 E19 - Faversham to Dorking
S5 E20 - Brighton to Chichester
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Synopsis
On his first journey of this series, Michael Portillo goes from Manchester, birthplace of George Bradshaw – the publisher of this trusted guide, to Chesterfield, burial place of George Stephenson, the father of the railway. For the second journey Michael is guided by his Bradshaw’s from London’s Euston station to Leeds. He finds out what happened to the once proud Euston Arch and then alights at Cheddington, scene of the Great Train Robbery. On the third journey of the series, Michael begins at Southampton where he learns to set tables aboard the luxury liner Queen Elizabeth before she sets sail. He finishes in Wolverhampton where he hears Queen Victoria made an emotional visit which signalled the end of her exile from public life after mourning her husband, Prince Albert. The final journey takes Michael from one cathedral city, Norwich and a painful encounter with a polecat, through to another cathedral city, Chichester, from where he heads for a taste of life in the fast lane at Goodwood.
