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Season 9 · Episode 6
Landed Mon, 8 Jan 2018 · 13:30 your time · 1 episode · 30m
Season 9, Episode 6 of Great British Railway Journeys aired Monday, 8 January 2018 at 6.30pm UK time on BBC iPlayer.
- S09E06Whitland to SwanseaMichael Portillo embarks on an adventure from the coalfields of south Wales to the southernmost tip of Cornwall. His first stop is Whitland in Carmarthenshire, where in the early 20th century, thrill-seekers gathered on Pendine Sands to indulge their need for speed. In Llanelli, Michael retraces the fateful events of a national rail strike in 1911 and is stirred by the sound of a male voice choir as they sing the town's unofficial anthem. At Loughor, he discovers a passionate preacher, who led a religious revival which gripped Edwardian Wales and had profound implications for the nation's established Church. In a suburban semi-detached house in the 'sprawling, crawling town of Swansea', Michael discovers the restored home of the poet Dylan Thomas, and the tiny bedroom in which he wrote two-thirds of his published work.
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