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Season 9 · Episode 12
Landed Tue, 16 Jan 2018 · 13:30 your time · 1 episode · 30m
Season 9, Episode 12 of Great British Railway Journeys aired Tuesday, 16 January 2018 at 6.30pm UK time on BBC iPlayer.
- S09E12York to FrizinghallArmed with his Edwardian Bradshaw's guide, Michael Portillo conducts important research in an historic tea room, built by an Edwardian immigrant to the city of York. Research of a more sombre kind leads Michael to the roots of our modern welfare state in the work of an early 20th-century Quaker investigator, whose family manufactured chocolate.Next stop is Leeds, where Michael discovers the city's textile heritage, which relied in Edwardian times on a group of skilled Jewish immigrants to take it forward. Michael learns how some of the big names built their empires in Leeds and measures up to a footballing legend. At Bradford Grammar School, Michael hears the story of a talented Edwardian student who became a famous composer and enjoys one of his works, sung by a music pupil of today.
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Great British Railway Journeys
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