Great Railway Journeys
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Great Railway Journeys
BBC foreign correspondent Fergal Keane travels through Japan, beginning his journey on the businessman's bullet train in Tokyo.
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Using Spain's comprehensive rail network, former Cabinet minister Michael Portillo explores his complex Spanish roots and reveals his family's troubled past.
Ian Hislop travels from Kolkata, the former capital of the British Raj and present seat of the Marxist government of West Bengal, to Rajasthan.
Series 3
Victoria Wood makes a round trip to the north of Britain from Crewe, taking in both the east and west coasts, and Thurso, the most northerly point possible by train.
Series 1
Self-confessed railway enthusiast Michael Palin travels from Euston in London to the Kyle of Lochalsh, along routes steeped in history.