S10E5:Birmingham to the Potteries

8 Feb 201929 minTV-G

Michael Portillo’s railway adventure reaches Birmingham, where learns how 90 per cent of the nation’s chain workshops were located there and that female workers earned a pittance, leading to a 1910 strike. In Landywood, he engages in some detective work involving Arthur Conan Doyle and a miscarriage of justice. In Stoke-on-Trent, Michael visits Wedgwood, the center of Britain’s ceramic industry.