Michael Portillo Railway Journeys - his jackets?

[simonspider]

I hired him to speak at a charity bash in 2016. Without doubt one of the funniest and most entertaining speakers I've heard. Picked him up from the railway station before, thoroughly nice chap. Couldn't do enough for all the selfie requests on the night and was the last to go. Top man

[CooperD]

AppleJuice said:

This one?

I thought that jacket very over the top. I do like the plain ones he wears but I thought the purple jacket with the yellow trousers he wore was rather OTT as well.

[DoctorX]

AppleJuice said:

This one?

That’s the one. It’s pleasing that no one who has met him has a bad word to say about him, really enjoy his programmes.

[Sa Calobra]

I've missed his new series, what day/time is it on?

[Yipper]

A rubbish politician, but a very good political analyst and commentator.

Why the hell anyone would want to dress like an eccentric English toff grandpa is beyond reasoning.

[DoctorX]

Oh no! Our nice thread has been Yippered!

[DoctorX]

Sa Calobra said:

I've missed his new series, what day/time is it on?

6.30 BBC2 Mon-Fri.

[AppleJuice]

DoctorX said:

6.30 BBC2 Mon-Fri.

Great Continental Railway Journeys is on BBC Four right now - episode where he goes to Hamburg and Miniatur Wunderland:

[anonymous-user]

simonspider said:

I hired him to speak at a charity bash in 2016. Without doubt one of the funniest and most entertaining speakers I've heard. Picked him up from the railway station before, thoroughly nice chap. Couldn't do enough for all the selfie requests on the night and was the last to go. Top man

Fantastic story,

I really like him. Glad to hear he’s a great bloke in real life,

[Kitchski]

AppleJuice said:

DoctorX said:

Just catching up with the new series. As much as I like his style, that red, checkered/pixelated thing he was wearing last week is a step too far!

This one?

Watched the Isle Of White episode the other day with one of my 8yr old sons (as they know the railway there, so it's kinda interesting).

That jacket is now known as the 'Minecraft' jacket. It was fully approved by an 8yr old boy

[shakotan]

CooperD said:

AppleJuice said:

This one?

I thought that jacket very over the top. I do like the plain ones he wears but I thought the purple jacket with the yellow trousers he wore was rather OTT as well.

I reckon if you saw him from 60ft away, the jacket would look EXACTLY like he was wrapped in a rasher of cooked bacon.

[Chocmonster]

I think he picked that material for a jacket as it reminded him of the Moquette style used on carriage seats.

[crankedup]

Not too many former frontline high profile politicians can reinvent themselves and become a mainstream entertainment presenter. Really engaging personality which was wasted in politics.

[WelshChris]

He wore it when he filmed at our place a couple of months ago - on TV next Friday 19th. A thoroughly nice bloke - spent two days filming with him and had a whale of a time.

[BrotherMouzone]

^^^^

Brilliant.

Love the series, particularly the European ones, but haven’t watched any of the new ones yet. All on iPlayer ready to go.

[Fast and Spurious]

shakotan said:

I reckon if you saw him from 60ft away, the jacket would look EXACTLY like he was wrapped in a rasher of cooked bacon.

[The Mad Monk]

simonspider said:

I hired him to speak at a charity bash in 2016. Without doubt one of the funniest and most entertaining speakers I've heard. Picked him up from the railway station before, thoroughly nice chap. Couldn't do enough for all the selfie requests on the night and was the last to go. Top man

Did he charge?

[Kitchski]

Got to be one of the first threads I've read where it seems nobody has a bad word to say about someone in the public eye.

[Escort3500]

Kitchski said:

Got to be one of the first threads I've read where it seems nobody has a bad word to say about someone in the public eye.

You’ve missed Yipper’s contribution (above).

[marcosgt]

Escort3500 said:

Kitchski said:

Got to be one of the first threads I've read where it seems nobody has a bad word to say about someone in the public eye.

You’ve missed Yipper’s contribution (above).

To be fair he wasn't a 'rubbish politician', but he comes over as such a genuinely nice bloke on the train programmes that you suspect he wasn't really happy with his smug looking "Mr Nasty" politician persona.

It's really quite hard to reconcile some of his Conservative Party conference speeches with the person we see today who seems genuinely interested in everyone he meets (a skill I suspect you can't learn) and willing to have a go at anything.

I wonder if he'd have been happier as Prime Minister or doing what he does now? It looks like that latter to me!

I remember seeing him in WH Smiths on Waterloo station the day before he unexpectedly lost his seat and being very pleased he had the next day, but I think he's one of the best presenters on TV these days!

Politics' loss was TV's gain and I'm not sure we didn't all do better out of it!

His colour choices, though, are 'interesting' to say the least!

M

Edited by marcosgt on Thursday 11th January 10:41