BBC - Great British Railway Journeys Series 11 (2020) Part 11 Canterbury to Alexandra Palace

Great British Railway Journeys Series 11

Michael Portillo begins a new series of railway journeys through 1930s Britain, armed with an interwar Bradshaw's guide. He explores an unmistakably modern era of glamorous locomotives, cinema and dance halls but also a time of high unemployment and widespread poverty.

Part 11 Canterbury to Alexandra Palace

Beginning in Canterbury in Kent, Michael treads the boards as he uncovers the political message behind a play, published in 1936, inspired by the 12th-century murder of Archbishop Thomas a Becket. Outside Sevenoaks, Michael visits the country home of one of his political heroes, Sir Winston Churchill,

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