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Season 11 · Episode 11
Landed Mon, 20 Jan 2020 · 13:30 your time · 1 episode · 30m
Season 11, Episode 11 of Great British Railway Journeys aired Monday, 20 January 2020 at 6.30pm UK time on BBC iPlayer.
- S11E11Canterbury to Alexandra PalaceSteered by his 1930s Bradshaw's guidebook, this week Michael Portillo explores the east of England in the interwar period. 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.In Maidstone, Michael learns of the international origins of the most British symbol of remembrance, before paying his respects at a war memorial based on London's Cenotaph.Outside Sevenoaks, Michael visits the country home of one of his political heroes, Sir Winston Churchill, and discovers how the 1930s were wilderness years at Chartwell, as Churchill warned against Nazi German appeasement.As Michael enters the capital, there is a visit to the brand new London Bridge station before he heads to Alexandra Palace, the birthplace of television.
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