Tom Richardson

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with his copy of Bradshaw’s Victorian railway guidebook, he travels the length and breadth of the British Isles to see what of Bradshaw’s World…

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with his copy of Bradshaw’s Victorian railway guidebook, he travels the length and breadth of the British Isles to see what of Bradshaw’s World…

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with his copy of Bradshaw’s Victorian railway guidebook, he travels the length and breadth of the British Isles to see what of Bradshaw’s World…

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with his copy of Bradshaw’s Victorian railway guidebook. He travels the length and breadth of the British Isles to see what of Bradshaw’s world…

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with his copy of Bradshaw’s Victorian railway guidebook, he travels the length and breadth of the British Isles to see what of Bradshaw’s World…

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks once again using his Bradshaw’s ’Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland’ from the Victorian era. Portillo is on a railway journey through…

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks once again using his Bradshaw’s ’Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland’ from the Victorian era. Portillo is on a railway journey through…

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks once again using his Bradshaw’s ’Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland’ from the Victorian era. Portillo is on a railway journey through…

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks once again using his Bradshaw’s ’Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland’ from the Victorian era. Portillo is on a railway journey through…

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks once again using his Bradshaw’s ’Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland’ from the Victorian era. Portillo is on a railway journey through…

On the last leg of his journey from a notorious slum in Manchester to the grandeur of a ducal seat in Derbyshire, Michael Portillo tunes in to the music of…

Michael Portillo continues his journey north on Robert Stephenson’s first inter-city railway line from the capital. Along the line at Bletchley he meets one of the Second World War’s most…

Steered by his Bradshaw’s Michael Portillo heads north on his journey from London to Leeds, stopping in Northampton, the land of shoemakers, where Victorian ’clickers’ have been making shoes for…

Guided by his Victorian Bradshaw’s Michael Portillo continues his journey north along Robert Stephenson’s London to Birmingham line. He begins this leg in Leicester, where he picks up the trail…

On the final leg of his journey along the first inter-city line to be built from the capital, Michael Portillo rediscovers a once-famous poet in Nottingham. In Mansfield he travels…

Michael Portillo embarks on a series of journeys through London. He travels on the capital’s first underground railway, the Metropolitan Line, from Amersham, where he discovers the foundations for modern-day…

Michael Portillo is invited aboard the construction locomotive for Crossrail to travel under the Thames and to meet Mary, on whom the project depends. He travels on the capital’s first…

Guided by his Bradshaw’s, Michael Portillo takes the high-speed line to Stratford to explore the legacy of the Olympic Park. He hears how an Indian lawyer, who learnt his trade…

Guided by his Victorian Bradshaw’s Guide, Michael Portillo explores London’s theatreland and discovers how 19th-century engineering made for spectacular theatricals. At Charing Cross, Michael learns about the ambitious building programme…

On the last of his journeys in the capital, Michael Portillo explores Albertopolis and reaches dizzying heights inside a Victorian landmark. He meets some of Battersea’s most famous residents and…

Michael braves the awesome power and drenching spray of Niagara Falls on the Maid of the Mist to share what artists, daredevils and millions of tourists have billed as one…

Michael heads west through New York State. He has a lightbulb moment in Schenectady, when he discovers how Thomas Edison’s General Electric Company also leads the way in modern rail…

Michael Portillo continues his railroad journey through New York State following his Appleton’s Guide. Beginning in the city of Poughkeepsie, he visits a famous all-female university, alma mater of Jane…

Michael follows America’s mighty Hudson River north, riding on the United States’ national rail carrier service, Amtrak. He learns from Amtrak’s police chief about some of the nation’s most infamous…

From Manhattan, Michael follows his Appleton’s Guide east, travelling on the Long Island Railroad. He begins in Brooklyn, where he learns the incredible story behind the world’s first steel suspension…

Michael continues his American journey in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where he narrowly avoids a scrap with an historic gang of New York and visits the grim tenement buildings where…

Michael begins his American odyssey in New York City. Starting at Grand Central Terminal, the ’gateway to the nation’, he boards the Manhattan subway system, the busiest rail transit system…

Bradshaw’s 1913 Continental Railway Guide in hand, Michael Portillo visits Italy, where he experiences first-hand the nation’s need for speed in a state-of-the-art Maserati sports car. Michael discovers how the…