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Portillo's Hidden History of Britain
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Series 2
Series 1
S2-E5 Brighton: A Seaside Escape
Michael Portillo ends his journey in Sussex at the popular seaside destination of Brighton, where...
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S2-E4 The Palace of Dreams
In the late 1930s there were almost 5,000 cinemas in Britain. Bradford's New Victoria was...
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S2-E3 Countdown to WW3
Michael Portillo visits a top-secret Cold War stronghold, just a mile from the Cambridge campus...
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S2-E2 Local Heroes: Manchester Fire Station
Michael Portillo ventures inside Manchester's London Road Fire Station, which was decommissioned in 1986 after...
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Behind bars: Michael Portillo visits a prison with a grisly past for Channel 5's Portillo's Hidden History of Britain
Michael Portillo visits the British prison where 18 American servicemen were executed during World War II
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