Michael Portillo Railway Journeys - his jackets?

[greygoose]

He has a series on Channel 5 too going to various places in Portugal, not by train this time.

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greygoose said:

He has a series on Channel 5 too going to various places in Portugal, not by train this time.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=&t=2073121

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AlexRS2782 said:

2025 bump for those that enjoy these - new series of "Continental" started on Monday (10/03) in the usual 6.30PM BBC2 slot and available via iPlayer. Looks like they were filmed / produced in '23 based on the credits so must have been waiting a while to release them.

Appears to be 20 episodes in total in this run so runs for the next 4 weeks.

I'd missed that, so I will set my box and watch the others on iPlayer.

Thanks for spotting it !

[Zad]

Thanks for the clarification, i did wonder if it was new, or just an older one I had missed. Must admit, I have really enjoyed this "new" series around the former Yugoslavia. Having known a chap who came from there just after the war, it is interesting to see his homeland, and to realise how little I know of the area. I wasn't expecting so much greenery, or the entire place to be so rural compared to western Europe.

[suffolk009]

Since this thread was originally about his lively jackets, we must acknowledge the awful fit of the Nehru collared jacket he's been wearing around Portugal.

It's as if two different cutters had done the left and right sides and then sent it all of to be sewn together. First time I saw it I assumed he'd just not put it on properly, but no - one side the collar is up under his ear, the other it is down below his shirt collar. I've never seen anything quite so badly cut.

[AlexRS2782]

AlexRS2782 said:

2025 bump for those that enjoy these - new series of "Continental" started on Monday (10/03) in the usual 6.30PM BBC2 slot and available via iPlayer. Looks like they were filmed / produced in '23 based on the credits so must have been waiting a while to release them.

Appears to be 20 episodes in total in this run so runs for the next 4 weeks.

And now that's finished, another 4 weeks back in the UK started Monday 07/04.

[AlexRS2782]

For anyone interested, there's a 2 part special covering the 200 years celebration from a little earlier this year - same setup as the usual shows but based around the history of the railway in the north, where it began, etc.

First part was Tuesday night at 8pm, with the second next week, or both parts are available via iPlayer.

[Randy Winkman]

I watched the first one and enjoyed it. Being honest, because I watch so many history documentaries, I mostly got the feeling I was being reminded of facts that I'd heard before but that's not really a criticism. It was good to see what's left of old lines and bridges and also be reminded that rail started before steam trains, with lines for animal drawn wagons to move stuff.

[hidetheelephants]

Plate ways and tram ways existed long before Stephenson and his new-fangled locomotives, generally built at mines to move ore to a harbour or to a mill or foundry for processing.

[Zad]

Nice to see they addressed it not being the first actual railway. The invention of the World Wide Web was very similar, several other inventions and developments all being brought together in the same place to produce a definite step forward, and which was then rapidly copied and expanded. Good to see Locomotion No.1 too, many rail history programmes seem to just skip over this era, and the fact that so much still physically exists from that time.