We dont have any upcoming events for this artist right now. At the winter sports resort of Semmering, rails of a slippier kind prove hard to navigate when Michael takes to a toboggan. Michael Portillo follows in the footsteps of Edwardian travellers to trace a route recommended in his Bradshaw's guide, journeying from the heart of France to the Mediterranean coast. In Vienna, he encounters a pre-Cold War spy and hears for himself the concert that caused a riot in 1913. Ebooks list page : 44962; 2022-09-26 Great Coastal Railway Journeys S01E06 Inverness to the Cairngorms 1080p HEVC x265-MeGusta; 2022-09-25 Great Coastal Railway Journeys S01E21 Avonmouth to Six Bells 1080p HEVC x265-MeGusta; 2022-09-25 Great Coastal Railway Journeys S01E22 Barry Island to Pyle 1080p HEVC x265-MeGusta; 2021-05-05 Great British Railway Journeys S12E08 Potters Bar To Cardington . 8.6 (19) Rate. He then heads over the rail bridge across the lagoon to Venice, where he finds a microcosm of pre-First World War Europe in the Venice Biennale art exhibition. That gave way to a red jacket, orange shirt and yellow trousers. The Atlantic coast of France and Spain, Bordeaux, claret, trams. . Season 1. A romantic stop at the ruined Schloss in Heidelberg follows before Michael gets an insider's guide to share dealing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. In Palermo, Michael takes in the art and architecture of the Futurists and feasts on spaghetti and sardines in the citys Ballaro market. Michael concludes his Sicilian journey on the circular railway around Mount Etna, aboard the sleek, futurist-inspired train inaugurated by Mussolini in 1937, La Littorina. From there, he travels to Salzburg, before heading to the magnificent scenery of the Salzkammergut region to visit the emperor's Austrian summer house at Bad Ischl, where in 1914 European history changed course forever. In Lviv, Michael learns to make Vareniki, the sour cheese-filled pasta, which is so popular in Ukraine, and encounters a much loved 19th-century poet before boarding the overnight express to Odessa. At Prague Central Station, Michael meets a woman who, as a young girl, travelled by train to safety in London. Inspired by the music and story of Poland's national icon Frederic Chopin, Michael takes to the floor to dance the polonaise with high school students rehearsing for their leavers' ball. Books have been published to accompany the first three series, with a chapter by each of the presenters on their particular journey: A similar book was also published on Great Little Railways: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Arriving in Tbilisi Michael is struck by the warm welcome of Georgians and is invited to a wedding, where he experiences the legendary feast, known as a supra. It took Portillo to Bulgaria, Turkey, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Germany, and Spain. Armed with his 1913 railway guide, Michael Portillo travels the Habsburg imperial line from Vienna across the awe-inspiring Semmering Pass, a handmade railway line blasted through the Alps. [1] Using an 1899 copy of Appleton's Guidebook to the railways of the United States and Canada, Portillo explores historic Canadian railways and learns about the places along the way. Fingers crossed there will be no more . Season 2. Michael ends his journey in futuristic style with a high-speed boat trip across Lake Garda. The painter Gustav Klimt seemed to mock the stiff morality of the establishment with his painting The Kiss. From Agrigento he heads inland to Enna and the picturesque but remote village of Gangi. Michael Portillo uses his 1913 Bradshaw's Continental Railway guide to complete his journey through Switzerland. Steered by his 1913 railway guide, on this journey Michael Portillo explores the once-great empire of Austria-Hungary, domain of the famous Habsburg monarchs. [8] A third series followed in January 2012, including five episodes on railways in Ireland. From the Grand Hotel Europe, advertised in his Bradshaw's, Michael explores the beauty and history of St Petersburg, from the great Nevsky Prospekt to the magnificent Winter Palace with its Hermitage Museum, then rides the first railway ever built in Russia between the city and the Tsar's village - Tsarskoye Selo. His journey begins in Lyon, where he learns how the city got its gastronomic reputation, and takes instruction from a leading chef on making an omelette. Along the way, Michael discovers the parlous state of Greek finances at the time of his guidebook. Steered by his 1913 railway guide, Michael journeys through a prosperous pre-war Europe of emperors, kings, pomp and elegance. Aboard the West Galician Railway, Michael hears how a 19th-century British railwayman sought his fortune in Galicia and ended up running the company. "Chief Minister is Interviewed for Popular BBC Show", "UNESCO World Heritage Sites Thuringia", Article by Michael Portillo - 25 Oct 2013, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great_Continental_Railway_Journeys&oldid=1132138884, 2010s British documentary television series, 2020s British documentary television series, Documentary television series about railway transport, Television shows set in the Czech Republic, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, The assassination attempt at the royal wedding of the British princess, One of the world's oldest roller-coasters in Copenhagen's. Michael is in his element, stoking the boiler on the footplate of the enormous locomotive. In Lund, he samples a Smorgasbord before having a Highland fling in Gothenburg, where he test drives a vintage Volvo. He then heads to Poznan and rides one of the few remaining steam-powered commuter trains, visits a factory in Wroclaw that manufactures car bodies for locomotives, and ends his journey in Krakow, where he takes a tour in an iconic vehicle of the communist era. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. BBC's Great Continental Railway Journeys - Facebook Watch He samples the best of Swedish fika and takes an icy dip one of the countrys 96,000 lakes. At the city's Great Synagogue he hears how the once sizeable Jewish population is beginning to recover after the violent pogroms of the 19th and early 20th centuries and the Holocaust. Starting in 2020, a new series featuring railways and locations in South East Asia is being broadcast on BBC2.[9]. . Steered by his 1913 railway guide, Michael Portillo takes the train from the former political capital of Italy, Turin, to Casanova's capital of romance, Venice. Heading to Bilbao, he explores the industrial ties between France and Spain and learns to cook a traditional Basque dish. Armed with his 1913 Continental Railway Guide, Michael Portillo embarks on a Greek odyssey from Athens's port of Piraeus north to the city of Thessaloniki, captured the year before from the Ottoman Turks, who had ruled much of Greece for 400 years. Great Continental Railway Journeys - Season 7 - IMDb His final stop is the industrial city of Stuttgart, where he visits the Porsche factory and learns of the origin of the Volkswagen Beetle. Leaving London behind, Michael follows the most popular route of the Edwardian traveller through France. Transylvania to the Black Sea The new boulevard was a metaphor for the empire which, beneath a veneer of pomp, was dissolving into dozens of ethnicities. Along the way, Michael discovers the parlous state of Greek finances at the time of his guidebook. He learns from the buffet car cooks how to prepare a supper of meat-filled dumplings - Dagestani specialities called pylmeni. After sampling la dolce vita in Portofino, Michael takes the train as it clings to the cliffs along the Riviera Di Levanti to reach the impossibly picturesque and remote villages of the Cinque Terre, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a national park. Released in 2013. One newspaper commented that only Eric Morecambe was funnier. For the similar show broadcast from 2010, see. Boarding one of the narrowest gauge railways in the world, the Little Train of Pelion, Michael travels to the village of Milies, where he learns about the place of the Orthodox Church in Greek national life. He left plans and models of every detail of his concept and it is now nearing completion, with spires and towers soaring above the Catalan capital extolling Christ, the Trinity, the Evangelists and the Apostles. Hard on their heels in Madrid, he visits the scene of a grim assassination attempt at the royal wedding of a British princess and a Spanish king. Michael discovers from a British engineer how the leaning tower of Pisa was rescued from near collapse. The first series, which used the longer title, was broadcast on BBC2 in 1980. Michael learns how diplomacy brought Britain and Spain closer together and rides on a hair-raising scenic railway. The first series was originally broadcast on BBC Two in 2012. Genres: Chamber Music, Television Music. Among the golden onion domes and icons of Tula, Michael is moved by the sound of a Russian Orthodox choir. Ever keen to try his hand, Michael takes instruction from a top chef on how to make an omelette, but his efforts fail to impress. Michael bags a ride in a high performance Porsche to the manufacturers Stuttgart headquarters and discovers that, in the 1930s, the founder designed an affordable car for mass production the Beetle. Copyright 2023 Ravel-Chapuis Music Library, Great Continental Railway Journeys (BBC2). Michael Portillo follows his Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide to continue his journey through the Netherlands. Michael Portillo travels to Spain, the country his father fled during the bloody civil war. In the spa of kings, Marienbad, now known as Marianske Lazne, Michael samples the sulphurous waters and wallows in peat and mud. Braving the force of the Goettingen wind tunnel, Michael investigates the track where model trains are fired at up to 360km per hour. And he discovers a beautiful art nouveau Palace of Music with an emotional history. Feature films include Flying Blind starring the late Helen McCrory and documentaries including BAFTA winning The Murder Trial (Channel 4) and The Age Of Nature (BBC). Michael takes a spin around the track at Le Mans in a French-built car, which won two endurance races during the 1920s. Fortified by railway wine and Swiss fondue, Michael makes his way to the capital, Bern, where in a 1930s bi-plane, he follows in the slipstream of the Swiss pilot Oskar Bider, first to fly across the Alps. Great Continental Railway Journeys - TheTVDB.com At the time of his guidebook it was a magnificent terminus, but today it stands ruined and derelict. In the vast port, Michael joins a pilot boat as it leads a supertanker to its berth. Michael hears how new rail lines transported spectators to the Nazi Olympic Games of 1936. His father fled to Oxford and got to know his future wife, who was looking after refugee children. Great Canadian Railway Journeys is a BBC travel documentary series presented by Michael Portillo and aired on BBC Two. The beauty of the Carpathian mountains with their snow-clad granite peaks, gorges and lakes appears to him unchanged from their description in his 100-year-old guidebook and he is privileged to catch sight of some of the wild brown bears and wolves who continue to live in the region's last stretches of unbroken forest. The image of the teenage warrior endures as a symbol of resistance, and her life is celebrated in an annual parade. From Tallinn, Michael crosses the Baltic Sea by ferry to Helsinki, where he discovers the music of the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius and learns how his masterpiece Finlandia spurred Finns towards independence. Start the wiki. Michael continues his rail journey through Spain with his 1930s Bradshaws guide. Michael Portillo embarks on a scenic thousand-mile rail journey from the Swedish capital, Stockholm, to Abisko in the northern reaches of the Arctic Circle, steered by his 1936 edition of Bradshaws Continental Railway Guide. Thats very nice, she replied. Great Continental Railway Journeys - Episodes - IMDb Along the way, he recreates the famous Italian Job on an historic Fiat test track and follows fashion in Milan before investigating the early 20th century British love affair with Lake Como in a seaplane. Coming back down to earth, Michael samples the amber wine of Georgia and learns about its role in Georgian national culture. [6] This series relied on narrators rather than presenters who appeared on camera. Arriving in Istanbul, Michael orients himself with a boat trip on the Bosphorus, samples some Turkish delight and crosses from Europe to Asia on the Marmaray metro line which now joins the two continents. Plucking up Dutch courage Michael takes to two wheels in Amsterdam's fast moving cycle lane and heads for the Indies district, where he samples a delicious "rijstafel" of dishes from the Dutch empire. In GREAT CONTINENTAL RAILWAY JOURNEYS, British broadcaster and journalist Michael Portillo travels on the great train routes . Michael begins in the port of Batumi on the dazzling Caucasian Riviera. Following in the footsteps of early 20th-century British tourists, Michael tours this compact country, which boasted a mighty navy and a global empire to rival that of Britain. Heading south west from Warsaw, Michael's fellow passengers come to his rescue with a crash course in Polish pronunciation. After sipping sherry in Jerez, he traces Winston Churchill's tense diplomatic mission to Algeciras on Spain's Costa del Sol and finishes with tales of British espionage on the Rock of Gibraltar. At the Skoda factory in Pilsen he investigates how the machine products of peacetime gave way to the manufacture of armaments for war and test drives a state of the art passenger train locomotive made there today. He then travels south along the tourist trail of the castle-studded Rhein river and ends his journey in the Rheingau to taste the wines of its age old vineyards. Steered by his 1913 Bradshaw railway guide, Michael Portillo takes the train down the spine of Italy as he travels from Rome to Sicily. Michael Portillo, I said, seemed slimy . His destination lies close to his heart: the ancient kingdom of Spain and land of his father, recommended in Michaels guidebook for its exceptional climate and glorious history. The first series, which used the longer title, was broadcast on BBC2 in 1980. Series 5 of Great Continental Railway Journeys begins on Tuesday 20 September on BBC Two at 9pm. An attempt to make Portugal's national sweetmeat proves challenging, but help is at hand. One of the most spectacular events I have witnessed was a Thracian classical dance in the Roman Theatre in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv. In the shadow of the citys splendid cathedral, Michael learns to dance the Jota. That feeling was confirmed as soon as I exited Vienna's stunning new main station. At Martigny, Michael puts his faith in St Bernard after he is buried in snow. His destination is Istanbul, a multi-ethnic city where Europe and Asia meet via an underground railway. Inspired by the music and story of Poland's national icon Frederic Chopin, Michael takes to the floor to dance the polonaise with high school students rehearsing for their leavers' ball. In Ploesti, he helps out in the world's first oil refinery and at Sinaia, he discovers a fairy tale castle with the most modern conveniences. 2012-11-08. Michael Portillo heads for the Netherlands, where he roots around the world's largest flower auction in Haarlem, operates a crane in Europe's largest container port, Rotterdam, and investigates Amsterdam's famous red-light district. Beginning in Dresden, Michael explores the city of one of his favourite opera composers, Richard Wagner. In Madrid, he visits the scene of an assaination attempt at the royal wedding of a British princess and a Spanish king. He then travels the Habsburg imperial line across the Semmering Pass, a line blasted through the Alps. He hitches a ride in a 1913 carriage to discover one of the secrets of its restoration. At Belorussky Station in Moscow, Michael hears how thousands of Russians journeyed to the capital in 1913 to mark the Romanov royal family's tercentenary year. Moving south to the city of Arles, he learns how its light and the famous mistral drew artists from all over Europe. Arriving in the Italian port of Trieste, Michael savours the imported coffee that fuelled a cafe culture. In a vast stadium, Michael hears how new rail lines were constructed to transport crowds of spectators to the Nazi Olympic Games of 1936. At the capitals Royal Institute of Technology, Michael investigates transport of the future in a near vacuum tube. His unique window on Europe between the world wars takes him through a tumultuous period in German history, when the nations first democracy and its vibrant culture of art, design and decadence were swept away by fascism, nationalism and the increasing likelihood of war. On a railway journey from the capital, Palermo, through the ancient town of Agrigento and the port of Siracusa, to Europes largest volcano, Mount Etna, Michael explores Sicilian life under the dictatorship. When The Rite of Spring premiered, there was pandemonium. GREAT CONTINENTAL RAILWAY JOURNEYS: Series One He discovers the magnificent art and architecture of the Dutch Golden Age and marvels at the engineering ingenuity of this fiercely independent nation. Armed with his 1913 railway guide, Michael Portillo embarks on a journey from the Swiss Alps to the shores of Lake Geneva. Among its cobbled streets and classical buildings Michael discovers the seeds of Ukrainian nationalism in song. Is your network connection unstable or browser outdated? The new series starts in Romania. After braving one of the world's oldest rollercoasters in Copenhagen's famous Tivoli Gardens, Michael takes the train across the Oresund Bridge linking Denmark to Sweden, where he retraces the tracks of a train which carried a revolutionary Russian passenger on an epic voyage.