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Season 10 · Episode 5
Landed Fri, 8 Feb 2019 · 13:30 your time · 1 episode · 30m
Season 10, Episode 5 of Great British Railway Journeys aired Friday, 8 February 2019 at 6.30pm UK time on BBC iPlayer.
- S10E05Birmingham to the PotteriesMichael Portillo reaches Birmingham and discovers how a radical reformer would make his mark on the city of a thousand trades. At Highbury Hall, he finds Joseph Chamberlain's splendid mansion home and hears how he established a political dynasty including a prime minister and a foreign secretary. Next stop is Cradley Heath, at the time of his Bradshaw's one of five chain-making towns in the West Midlands. Michael learns how 90 percent of the chain workshops in England and Wales were located here and that female workers earned a pittance to produce goods in their homes.
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