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great british railway journeys 2017 starting 2nd Jan
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I'm waiting for a second series of Great American Railroad Journeys seeing as the book to accompany the series that comes out at the end of next month covers the whole journey from New York to San Francisco (according to Amazon that is).
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Great news. Thanks
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Only the BBC could make a successful programme out of a man reading from a railway timetable
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Who is the better host - Michael Portillo or Chris Tarrant? In the immortal words of Harry Hill: There's only one way to find out.. FIGHT!!
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Who is the better host - Michael Portillo or Chris Tarrant? In the immortal words of Harry Hill: There's only one way to find out.. FIGHT!!
![]() Hehehe ![]() Easy how to tell...no advertising on BBC so a quick win for Michael ! |
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Who is the better host - Michael Portillo or Chris Tarrant?
Easy call for me: Michael Portillo. That's got nothing to do with politics or anything like that; simply that I prefer his knowledgeable, grown-up but relaxed and (most importantly) not dumbed-down style. Plus, his jackets and trousers are often a scream!
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Who is the better host - Michael Portillo or Chris Tarrant? In the immortal words of Harry Hill: There's only one way to find out.. FIGHT!!
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I'm waiting for a second series of Great American Railroad Journeys seeing as the book to accompany the series that comes out at the end of next month covers the whole journey from New York to San Francisco (according to Amazon that is).
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As there are only 3 weeks of GB series then it looks like they might do what they did last year and move on to two or three weeks of US journeys in the same slot straight after these from 23 January.
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Never liked him when he was in politics, but find him interesting and entertaining on his railway journeys.
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Never liked Portillo either and find it hard to put "clear blue water" (as he would put it when in his pomp) between his political career and the inoffensive schtick he employs nowadays. There are umpteen people who could present a well-researched BBC programme like this, eg John Sergeant, Jim Naughtie etc etc who don't have Portillo's baggage, pardon the pun.
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Actually, what they need to do is a series of great British Bus Journeys. There are some crackers. I'd recommend Orkney Route X1 - St Margaret's Hope to Stromness, and Isle of Skye 57, Portree - Uig - Portree. Some of the most wonderful scenery in Britain, and rich in history and legend.
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Thanks for the heads up, love watching this
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Actually, what they need to do is a series of great British Bus Journeys. There are some crackers. I'd recommend Orkney Route X1 - St Margaret's Hope to Stromness, and Isle of Skye 57, Portree - Uig - Portree. Some of the most wonderful scenery in Britain, and rich in history and legend.
There is a similar thing on this Christmas featuring the full steam train ride on the Flying Scotsman around Shropshire. They have done canal journeys in the style of MPs shows and Julia Bradbury's one series of railway walks along now closed lines keeps getting repeated. No idea why they have not made more of those. Bus journeys would be interesting - though I suspect they think these lack the romance of rail travel. Somehow cannot see Michael Portillo on a battered old bus in his multi coloured suits.
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Somehow cannot see Michael Portillo on a battered old bus in his multi coloured suits.
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Let's hope Michael's not on any Southern trains, lest the episodes consist of him waiting forlornly on an empty platform and/or wedged under somebody's armpit on an overcrowded 4-car unit from Tattenham Corner.
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I saw him filming by Waverley Station Edinburgh, this October, he was wearing a bright yellow jacket
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Only the BBC could make a successful programme out of a man reading from a railway timetable
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Only the English would watch this TV equivalent of muesli
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Whatever you think of Portillo's politics he refused to sanction the closure of the Settle and Carlisle line and supported the railways much more than Thatcher who saw the car and road transport as the future.
Portillo makes for a better programme than Tarrant IMHO. Portillo works well with the people he meets without ever appearing patronising and without ever feeling he needs to dumb down anything. The only thing to be said in favour of Tarrant is the the railways themselves tend to be more interesting. |
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It is preferable to watching only the TV equivalent of Corn Flakes.
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As there are only 3 weeks of GB series then it looks like they might do what they did last year and move on to two or three weeks of US journeys in the same slot straight after these from 23 January.
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what a great first episode to start the new series
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what a great first episode to start the new series
![]() That engineering company, Riley & Sons, who put the engine back together and who's boss Michael interviewed, is only a couple of hundred yards from the school I went to ! just by our old playing fields............
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