Great British Railway Journeys

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Great British Railway Journeys

Michael Portillo's rail exploration of the historic wooded region of southeast England known as The Weald continues from Tonbridge at the heart of the area's rail network. Touring hazelnut orchards near Hildenborough, Michael learns about the Kentish cobnut and lends a hand to c...

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Season 16
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Michael Portillo takes to the rails to explore one of Britain's oldest surviving landscapes, the woods and pasture of The Weald in South East England. Between the chalk hills of the North and South Downs little more than an hour's rail journey from London, he finds the pretty 12th century church of St Peter and St Paul in ...
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