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• 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 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.

• 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 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 1 And 2 | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £12.95   |  Saving you £17.04 (131.58%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Steered by his 1913 Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, Michael Portillo journeys through a prosperous pre-war Europe of emperors and kings, pomp and elegance. A continent whose industrialists, factories and mines had created wealth, whose scientists and engineers were discovering and constructing the marvellous and whose artists were challenging old ways, whilst intellectuals plotted revolution. This early 20th century handbook opened up an exotic world to the Edwardian tourist; fr.

• Great Continental Railways Journeys: Series 1 to 4 | DVD | (21/11/2016) from £N/A   |  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 eight-disc set features 23 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

• Great Continental Railway Journeys Series 3 | DVD | (23/03/2015) from £12.49   |  Saving you £12.50 (100.08%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Great British Railway Journeys Series 5 | DVD | (19/01/2015) from £5.98   |  Saving you £31.00 (776.94%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Armed with his copy of Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook, Michael Portillo takes to the tracks and over a series of four journeys, he travels from coast to coast to see what of Bradshaw's Britain remains. This 4 DVD set features 20 episodes covering 4 different journeys: Manchester to Chesterfield London to Leeds Southampton to Wolverhampton Cheltenham to Wolverhampton On his first journey of this series, Michael Portillo goes from Manchester, birthplace of George Bradshaw, the publisher of his 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 Handbook 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 table 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.

• Railways of The Great War with Michael Portillo | DVD | (11/08/2014) from £21.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In this five part series for BBC2, Michael Portillo marks the centenary of the First World 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 will track down the fascinating, emotional and sometimes tragic s.

• Great British Railway Journeys: Series 4 | DVD | (27/01/2014) from £15.90   |  Saving you £24.09 (151.51%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Armed with his copy of Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook Michael Portillo takes to the tracks and over a series of five journeys he travels from coast to coast to see what of Bradshaw's Britain remains.;This 5 DVD set features 25 episodes covering 5 different journeys;High Wycombe to Aberystwyth;Portsmouth to Grimsby;Stirling to John O'Groats;Paddington to New Abbott;Killarney to Galway;Michael's first journey follows the track that help fuel the Industrial Revolution. Beginning in the rolling Chiltern Hills he makes his way through to the stunning Severn Valley and finishes at the Victorian sea-side resort of Aberystwyth. He then travels from port to port from the centuries old naval hub of Portsmouth to the historic Grimsby docks. On Michael's third journey he explores the awe inspiring scenery of rural and coastal Scotland from Stirling in the east and ending at 'the start of Great Britain' John O' Groats. The fourth journey of the series he retraces the footsteps of the master engineer of the Great Western Railway Isambard Kingdom Brunel beginning at London Paddington Station through to Newton Abbott in Devon the scene of one of Brunel's heroic failures. In Michael's final journey he uses 'Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland' as he journeys through the Republic of Ireland from Killarney to Galway on the Atlantic Coast.

• Great American Railroad Journeys: Series 1 and 2 | DVD | (04/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A companion to the phenomenally successful Great British Railway Journeys, this series sees Michael Portillo swapping his treasured copy of Bradshaw's handbook for its Stateside counterpart an 1879 edition of Appleton's Guidebook to the railroads of America and Canada. This seven DVD set features 35 episodes covering four different journeys: New York City to Niagara Falls Philadelphia to Jamestown St. Louis, Missouri to the Grand Canyon The Twin Cities to Memphis, Tennessee Michael's first journey takes him from New York City to Niagara Falls; the second traverses the mid-Atlantic states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and 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, then follows the course of the Mississippi towards Memphis, Tennessee. Along the way Michael takes in Broadway and the great immigration hub of Ellis Island; he visits the Military Academy at West Point, discovers the stories of African slaves; he attempts to conduct a cattle auction and has a taste of the Old West in Kansas, before savouring the fiery flavours of New Mexico! Michael then explores Chicago s vast rail hub, discovers the home of the Blues in Memphis and immerses himself in the culture and history of the continent s first settlers: the Native Americans.

• Great Continental Railway Journeys: Series 2 | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In 1913 Europe was criss-crossed by a network of railways stretching from Finland in the North to Constantinople in the East and Cadiz in the West all of them described in 'Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide and General Handbook'. Steered by his copy of this guide Michael Portillo embarks on a series of six new railway adventures travelling from station to station visiting the towns and villages described by the Guide whilst telling the story of Europe in 1913. Episodes Comprise: Madrid to Gibraltar Turin to Venice Dresden to Kiel Copenhagen to Oslo Prague to Munich Bordeaux to Bilbao In this series Michael returns to his native Spain to discover what the intrepid tourists of the Belle Epoque experienced on their travels through the fading Spanish empire. He travels South from Madrid and finishes with tales of British espionage on the Rock of Gibraltar. The second journey takes Michael from the former political capital of Italy Turin to Casanova's capital of romance Venice. Continuing to follow his Bradshaw's in the third journey Michael explores Germany and learns how tourists in the early 20th century would have been visiting quite a new country which they admired and envied but also feared. Michael then travels north into Scandinavia and discovers the royal roots of those Edwardian travellers' close dynastic ties with the kingdoms of Denmark and Norway. He also visits the final resting place of George Bradshaw in Oslo. For his fourth journey Michael explores the stunning art nouveau architecture of Prague then travels through the Czech Republic crossing into Bavaria arriving in Munich and discovers an early 20th century pioneer who laid the foundations for the city's pre-eminence in science and technology today. In his final journey Michael sets off to sample the delights of the French and Spanish Atlantic coast heading first to Bordeaux and finishing in Bilbao in the Spanish Basque country.

• Great British Railway Journeys - Complete Series 1-5 (23 disc box set) | DVD | (26/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

• Great Continental Railway Journeys: Series 2 | DVD | (10/07/2017) from £5.22   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In 1913, Europe was criss-crossed by a network of railways stretching from Finland in the North, to Constantinople in the East, and Cadiz in the West, all of them described in Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide and General Handbook . Steered by his copy of this guide, Michael Portillo embarks on a series of six new railway adventures, travelling from station to station, visiting the towns and villages described by the Guide whilst telling the story of Europe in 1913. This two-disc set features six hour-long episodes covering six different journeys: Madrid to Gibraltar Turin to Venice Dresden to Kiel Copenhagen to Oslo Prague to Munich Bordeaux to Bilbao In this series, Michael returns to his native Spain to discover what the intrepid tourists of the Belle Epoque experienced on their travels through the fading Spanish Empire. He travels south from Madrid and finishes with tales of British espionage on the Rock of Gibraltar. The second journey takes Michael from the former political capital of Italy, Turin, to Casanova's capital of romance, Venice. Continuing to follow his Bradshaw's, in the third journey, Michael explores Germany and learns how tourists in the early 20th century would have been visiting quite a new country, which they admired and envied but also feared. Michael then travels north into Scandinavia and discovers the royal roots of those Edwardian travellers' close dynastic ties with the kingdoms of Denmark and Norway. He also visits the final resting place of George Bradshaw in Oslo. For his fourth journey, Michael explores the stunning Art Nouveau architecture of Prague, then travels through the Czech Republic, crossing into Bavaria, arriving in Munich and discovering an early 20th century pioneer who laid the foundations for the city's pre-eminence in science and technology today. In his final journey, Michael sets off to sample the delights of the French and Spanish Atlantic coast, heading first to Bordeaux and finishing in Bilbao in the Spanish Basque country.