Great Continental Railway Journeys Series 8Episodes Available now

Rennes to Mont Saint-Michel

18/20Michael Portillo’s railway adventure reaches Rennes, capital of Brittany.

17/20Michael's journey reaches the naval port of Brest, home to France’s oceanographic fleet.

16/20Michael Portillo’s rail travels take him to the north west corner of France.

20/20Michael discovers how Calvados has been distilled since 1865 at the Pierre Huet estate.

19/20Michael Portillo admires the 70-metre-long Bayeux Tapestry.

12/20Michael Portillo ventures into the bowels of an immense hydroelectric dam.

11/20Michael Portillo visits the tiny village home of Switzerland’s most famous child, Heidi.

15/20Michael wends his way in style down mountainsides from Interlaken to the Swiss Riviera.

14/20Michael Portillo scales the Swiss Alps on one of the steepest cog railways in the world.

13/20In Zurich, Michael has a brush with the absurd in the anarchic paintings of the Dadaists.