"Actor: Michael Portillo"

• Great British Railway Journeys: Series 16 | DVD | (02/06/2025) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Michael Portillo's Long Weekends: Series 2 | DVD | (02/06/2025) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Michael Portillo's Long Weekends: Series 1 | DVD | (31/03/2025) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Great Continental Railways Journeys: Series 1 - 5 | DVD | (04/09/2017) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Clad in his trademark colourful jackets, Michael Portillo embarks on a series of railway adventures which take him through the European continent and beyond! Steered by his 1913 Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, Michael journeys through a pre-war age of emperors, kings, pomp and elegance across a continent whose industrialists had created wealth, whose scientists were discovering the marvellous and whose artists were challenging old ways... whilst intellectuals plotted revolution. This ten-disc set features 29 different journeys: Series 1: London to Monte Carlo / Hungary to Austria / Berlin to The Rhein / Switzerland / Amsterdam to Northern France Series 2: Madrid to Gibraltar / Turin to Venice / Dresden to Kiel / Copenhagen to Oslo / Prague to Munich / Bordeaux to Bilbao Series 3: Tula to St Petersburg / Rome to Taormina / Warsaw to Krakow / La Coruna to Lisbon / Haifa to the Negev Desert / Lyon to Marseille Series 4: Sofia to Istanbul / Vienna to Trieste / Pisa to Lake Garda / Athens to Thessaloniki / The Black Forest to Hannover / Barcelona to Mallorca Series 5: Transylvania to the Black Sea / Zermatt to Geneva / Tangier to Marrakech / Genoa to the Brenner Pass / Riga to Tampere / Rotterdam to Utrecht

• Great British Railway Journeys: Series 1-4 | DVD | (27/03/2017) from £35.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Armed with his Victorian copy of Bradshaw's Railway Handbook, Michael Portillo takes to the tracks, travelling from coast to coast to discover what of Bradshaw's Britain remains. Passionate about trains, Michael Portillo charts the great British romance with the railways in this phenomenally successful series. Armed with his copy of George Bradshaw's famous railway handbook, he retraces seventeen journeys that were first documented in the Victorian guide (and an additional two from its Irish companion!), witnessing what's changed and discovering how our love of the railways began. Throughout, he makes stops at some of Britain's most beautiful cities and secluded villages, meeting extraordinary people and hearing how their lives have been shaped by the railways. This 19-disc set comprises the complete series 1-4.

• Great Coastal Railways Journeys: Series 3 | DVD | (22/07/2024) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Great British Railway Journeys: Series 14 | DVD | (02/09/2024) from £23.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Great British Railway Journeys: Series 3 | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £18.85   |  Saving you £21.14 (112.15%)   |  RRP £39.99

  All 25 episodes from the third series of the documentary in which Michael Portillo traces historic rail journeys across Britain taking as his guide 'Bradshaw's Handbook'.;The episodes are: 'Great Yarmouth to Beccles' 'Darsham to Felixstowe' 'Sudbury to Southend' 'Epping to Hackney' 'Fenchurch to Embankment' 'Windsor to Didcot' 'Reading to Alton' 'Winchester to Isle of Wight' 'Brockenhurst to Poole' 'Wareham to Portland' 'Oxford to Pershore' 'Hartlebury to Great Malvern' 'Lydney to Newport' 'Cardiff to Brecon' 'Port Talbot to Milford Haven' 'Berwick-Upon-Tweed to Morpeth' 'Bardon Mill to Wigton' 'Cockermouth to Eskdale' 'Kirkby-in-Furness to Lancaster' 'Heysham to Snaefell' 'Bray to Dublin' 'Enfield to Drogheda' 'Dundalk to Portadown' 'Belfast to Whitehead' and 'Ballymoney to Derry'.

• Great American Railroad Journeys: Series 1 to 3 | DVD | (01/10/2018) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A companion to the phenomenally successful Great British Railway Journeys, this series sees Michael Portillo swap his treasured copy of Bradshaw's Handbook for its stateside counterpart an 1879 edition of Appleton's General Guide to the United States and Canada. This eleven-DVD set features 55 episodes covering six different journeys: New York City to Niagara Falls Philadelphia to Jamestown St. Louis, Missouri, to the Grand Canyon The Twin Cities to Memphis, Tennessee Boston, Massachusetts, to Toronto, Ontario Reno, Nevada, to San Diego, California Michael's first journey takes him from New York City to Niagara Falls and the second traverses the mid-Atlantic cities and states: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Jamestown, Virginia. The third follows the trail of 19th-century pioneers from St. Louis to the Grand Canyon. Michael's fourth journey begins in Minnesota's Twin Cities and ends in Memphis, Tennessee, while the fifth takes him a thousand miles from leafy New England over mountain ranges to the Great Lakes. In his sixth and final journey Michael travels a thousand miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains south along the coast of California to tell the story of a state that has transformed the world. Along the way Michael encounters revolutionaries and feminists, pilgrims and witches and rides some of the oldest and most breathtaking railroads in the world. He takes in Broadway, attempts to conduct a cattle auction, discovers gold and silver, learns how America's most famous railroad conquered the wild landscapes of the west and immerses himself in the culture and history of the continent's first inhabitants: the Native Americans.

• Great Continental Railway Journeys: Series 6 | DVD | (30/04/2018) from £15.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Michael Portillo embarks on two memorable railway journeys across Europe armed only with his 1913 Bradshaw s Guide and sporting his trademark colourful jackets! On his travels, Michael visits towns and villages along the way exploring the sights and sampling local traditions while telling the story of what happened in continental Europe in 1913, when everything changed just before the world went to war.

• Railways Of The Great War With Michael Portillo | DVD | (24/10/2016) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this five part series, Michael Portillo marks the centenary of the Great War by discovering the central role the railways played in securing victory, repatriating the dead and wounded and feeding the insatiable appetite for weaponry and supplies that the theatre of war demanded. This is a story of how a British invention that brought trade, travel and prosperity in peacetime became an engine of war. Michael tracks down the fascinating, emotional and sometimes tragic stories of the wartime railways that criss-crossed Britain and Europe. They were the crucial new arm of modern warfare at a time when motorised transport on the roads was in its infancy. Over these five episodes Michael visits the key railway locations that would become synonymous with the victories, defeats, battles and campaigns of the Great War, showing how integral they were to our success often in surprising ways and how they helped to shape the Europe we know today.

• Great British Railway Journeys - Series 2 | DVD | (09/01/2012) from £4.98   |  Saving you £35.01 (703.01%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Former Minister of State for Transport Michael Portillo takes to the tracks in the second series of the BBC TV Documentary Great British Railway Journeys.Passionate about trains, Michael Portillo embarks on five epic rail journeys, each split into five legs, travelling the length and breadth of the UK as he retraces routes that were described in his original 1860's copy of Bradshaw's Railway Handbook. This box set features 25 episodes covering 5 different journeys including;Brighton to Cromer Ledbury to Holyhead Newcastle to Melton Mowbray London Bridge to Hastings Ayr to Skye Along the way he witnesses all the things that have changed since the early days of rail transport and what still remains of Bradshaw's Britain, discovering the effect the railways had on the public and finding out how the British love of trains all began. Michael samples some classic Cromer crab, gets a rare chance to drive a heritage diesel and gets up close and personal with a pedigree Hereford bull.He also discovers a secret World War II chemical weapons plant at Rhydmwyn, takes a steam train across the beautiful North Yorkshire Moors, attempts to make an authentic Melton Mowbray pork pie, discovers how the railways turned cricket into a national sport and hunts for gold in Scotland's mountains.

• Great British Railway Journeys: Series 10 | DVD | (06/05/2019) from £15.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Michael Portillo makes various railway journeys across the UK, using a 150-year-old Bradshaw's Guide (a collection of railway timetables and a guidebook). He looks at the history, culture and industry of the towns that he passes through, and the way that things have changed since Bradshaw wrote his Guide.

• Great British Railway Journeys: Series 5 to 8 | DVD | (04/09/2017) from £61.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Armed with his Victorian copy of Bradshaw's Railway Handbook, Michael Portillo takes to the tracks, travelling from coast to coast to discover what of Bradshaw's Britain remains. Passionate about trains, Michael Portillo charts the great British romance with the railways in this phenomenally successful series. Armed with his copy of George Bradshaw's famous railway handbook, he retraces fourteen journeys that were first documented in the Victorian guide (plus an additional one from its Irish companion!), witnessing what's changed and discovering how our love of the railways began. Throughout, he makes stops at some of Britain's most beautiful cities and secluded villages, meeting extraordinary people and hearing how their lives have been shaped by the railways. This 15-disc set comprises the complete series 5-8.

• Great British Railway Journeys: Series 15 | DVD | (18/11/2024) from £24.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Great British Railway Journeys: Series 1 | DVD | (02/07/2018) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Passionate about trains, Michael Portillo charts the great British romance with the railways as he retraces four journeys that were first documented in the monthly railway guide, Bradshaw's Handbook. He sees what's changed and discovers how our love of the railways all began. This 4 disc DVD set features 20 episodes covering 4 different journeys: Liverpool to Scarborough Preston to Kirkcaldy Swindon to Penzance Buxton to London Portillo makes stops en route to visit some of Britain's most beautiful cities and hidden-away villages, meeting extraordinary people and hearing stories of how their lives have been shaped in some way by the railways. Throughout these monumental journeys, Portillo explores the secret ammunition factory at Gretna, sails the last steam boat on Lake Windermere, learns to talk 'scouse' in Liverpool, takes a dip in Bath Spa, cooks a traditional curry in Birmingham, tries his hand at oyster fishing in Cornwall and meets survivors of the Coventry Blitz.

• Great Indian Railway Journeys: Series 1 | DVD | (30/04/2018) from £13.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following his phenomenally successful series exploring the railways of Britain, Continental Europe and the USA, this captivating new series sees Michael Portillo embarking on a fresh adventure as he takes to the tracks of one of the world's largest and most spectacular rail networks. Steered by his 1913 copy of Bradshaw's Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel, Michael makes four journeys through an extraordinarily varied landscape of mountains, deserts and plains, encountering Maharajas and Mughals, visiting exquisite palaces and temples and discovering India's vibrant cities.

• Great Alaskan and Canadian Railway Journeys: Series 1 | DVD | (01/04/2019) from £33.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Michael Portillo journeys through the stunning wilderness of the 49th US state on its most extreme railroads, before crossing the border into Canada, the world's second largest country, to explore its lakes and mountains, visit its cities and ride its most scenic and spectacular railroads. Michael heads first for the Last Frontier of the United States armed with his 1899 Appleton's Guidebook to Alaska. He boards the Alaska Railroad to travel past lakes and glaciers and through mountain tunnels, admiring the magnificent landscape and glimpsing the wildlife of the region, while learning what it took to build this epic 470-mile line. Along the way, Michael joins the US Arctic Warriors for parachute training, gets a taste of the pioneering spirit and explores the art of the First Nations helping to carve a totem pole before shaking his tail feathers in a grouse dance . Switching to his 1899 edition of Appleton's Canadian Guidebook, Michael crosses the border into Canada and rides the spectacular transcontinental railway, explores Canada's Atlantic maritime provinces and makes a 1,000-mile journey across the vast Canadian Prairie. During his travels he meets modern day Canadians descended from immigrants and fur traders, indigenous groups and people of the Métis nation. He encounters beaver and bear, rides with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, joins the lumberjacks of British Columbia to corral logs downriver and attempts to play Canada's national sport, ice hockey. Tomato wine, Saskatoon Berry Pie, Acadian oysters and Nova Scotia lobster are among the delicacies that sustain him on his journey.

• Great Continental Railway Journeys: Series 6 | DVD | (21/10/2024) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Great Continental Railways Journeys: Series Three | DVD | (15/08/2016) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A