S8E9:Gainsborough to Ely

12 Jan 201729 minTV-G

Steered by his Bradshaw's railway handbook to Gainsborough, Michael Portillo wraps his head around an ingenious Victorian machine which changed shopping forever. In Lincoln, he discovers the verse and popularity of 19th-century poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and finds poetry thrives today in a city pub. At Ely, Michael discovers the architecture of the city's magnificent cathedral.