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Past Schedule of Great Continental Railway Journeys program

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  1. Fri 6:30 PM, 4 Apr 2025 on BBC Two channel
    20/20. In the apple orchards of the Calvados region, Michael Portillo discovers how the classic digestif has been distilled since 1865 at the Pierre Huet estate. [S] [HD]
  2. Thu 6:30 PM, 3 Apr 2025 on BBC Two channel
    19/20. In Bayeux, Michael Portillo admires the 70-metre-long Bayeux Tapestry. [S] [HD]
  3. Wed 6:30 PM, 2 Apr 2025 on BBC Two channel
    18/20. Michael Portillo's railway adventure reaches Rennes, capital of Brittany. [S] [HD]
  4. Tue 6:30 PM, 1 Apr 2025 on BBC Two channel
    17/20. Michael Portillo's railway journey reaches the naval port of Brest, home to France's oceanographic fleet. He also learns how to make a sweet, buttery Breton cake called kouign-amann. [S] [HD]
  5. Mon 6:30 PM, 31 Mar 2025 on BBC Two channel
    16/20. Michael Portillo's rail travels take him to the north west corner of France. [S] [HD]
  6. Fri 7:30 PM, 28 Mar 2025 on BBC Two channel
    15/20. Michael wends his way in style down mountainsides from Interlaken to the Swiss Riviera. [S] [HD]
  7. Thu 7:30 PM, 27 Mar 2025 on BBC Two channel
    14/20. Michael Portillo scales the Swiss Alps on one of the the steepest cog railways in the world and visits the 19th-century fairy-tale Grand Hotel Giessbach. [S] [HD]
  8. Wed 7:30 PM, 26 Mar 2025 on BBC Two channel
    13/20. In Zurich, Michael has a brush with the absurd in the anarchic paintings of the Dadaists. [S] [HD]
  9. Tue 7:30 PM, 25 Mar 2025 on BBC Two channel
    12/20. Michael Portillo ventures into the bowels of an immense hydroelectric dam to learn how the Swiss use their mountainous environment to power the country. [S] [HD]
  10. Mon 7:30 PM, 24 Mar 2025 on BBC Two channel
    11/20. Michael Portillo visits the tiny village home of Switzerland's most famous child, Heidi. [S] [HD]
  11. Fri 7:30 PM, 21 Mar 2025 on BBC Two channel
    10/20. Michael Portillo concludes his epic rail journey, crossing an 18-kilometre bridge. [S] [HD]
  12. Thu 7:30 PM, 20 Mar 2025 on BBC Two channel
    9/20. Michael Portillo's Scandinavian rail adventure reaches Denmark's second city, Aarhus. [S] [HD]