Great British Railway JourneysSeason 16, Episode 1 - Paddock Wood To Frant

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 Wadhurst, where more than 30 iron memorial slabs bear witness to The Weald as once the country's leading producer of iron.

Great British Railway Journeys was broadcast on SBS ONE at Tuesday 16 September 2025, 10:00.