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S1-E4 Imber Village - The Wages of War

In 1943, the village of Imber in Wiltshire's Salisbury Plain began to be used as...

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S1-E3 Shepton Mallet

Michael Portillo explores Shepton Mallet prison, which over its 400-year history has seen numerous executions...

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S1-E2 Orford Ness: Defence of the Realm

On the Suffolk coast lie some of Britain's most mysterious ruins - concrete bunkers, rusting...

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S1-E1 Royal London Hospital: Healthcare for All

Michael Portillo visits four abandoned locations that were at the centre of relatively unknown historical...

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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