Great British Railway Journeys
Stoke Mandeville to Beaconsfield
Season 12 Episode 2 of 15
Michael Portillo continues his travels through England's Home Counties at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, where he discovers the legacy of a German Jewish doctor who fled the Nazis to settle in Britain. He then heads through the Chiltern Hills to Princes Risborough, before reaching Beaconsfield and revisiting his much-loved childhood haunt, Bekonscot Model Village
Great British Railway Journeys airs on BBC Four HD at 7:00 PM, Tuesday 13 May. (Subtitles, audio description.)
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Michael Portillo
Presenter
Alison Kreps
Series Editor
John Comerford
Executive Producer
Tom Richardson
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