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Northallerton to Chester-Le-Street

Michael Portillo confronts a detachment of Gurkhas, produces a fine heritage cheese and discovers a monster cracker that is key to making plastic.

Michael Portillo confronts a detachment of Gurkhas, produces a fine heritage cheese and discovers a monster cracker that is key to making plastic, before ending his postwar journey from Merseyside to Teesside in a recreated 1950s street, where childhood memories are rekindled in the Beamish Museum hairdresser.

28 minutes

Last on

Fri 5 Jul 202408:20

Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterMichael Portillo
DirectorMike Arnott
Series EditorAlison Kreps
Executive ProducerJohn Comerford
Production CompanyFremantle

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Steam railway programmes on BBC iPlayer

Steam railway programmes on BBC iPlayer

A collection of programmes from the BBC archives on the beauty of steam locomotives.