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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

In Manchester, Michael Portillo ventures inside the London Road Fire Station, which was decommissioned in...

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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