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Charlie bunce has spent his working life in broadcasting producing many awardwinning programmes. Jul, 2017 michael portillo, the host of the quintessentially british travel history show great british railways, was recently interviewed by mediaweek where he not only gave some interesting insights on how. For the second series of great american railroad journeys, i travel on. Michael portillo back on track as he explores indias. Oct 14, 20 michael portillo, who has a home in seville, has been visiting the great railways of europe for several years now while filming the great railway journeys documentary series. Another great documentary series with superb airial photography of service trains in. Michael portillos most popular book is great british railway journeys. Australias greatest train journey we were terribly excited when a caller rang during the week. His first took in historic east coast sites, but these new travels. Michael portillo travels the worlds largest rail network to experience some of americas finest history credit. Great british railway journeys series 4 michael portillo. Armed with bradshaws variety of railway guides, portillo explores beautiful countries through the eyes of the eponymous man, who wrote his guides well over 100 years ago. In the first series of great british railway journeys, we went across the ribblehead viaduct pulled by a steam locomotive and the valley was filled with people photographing and filming the train.