Preston to Rochdale Great British Railway Journeys : Season 5 Episode 3
BBC Two 30m
Aired: January 8th, 2014 @ 6:30 PM EST on BBC Two
Michael Portillo continues his journey through the North West of England. He celebrates Victorian trade with the Preston Guild then heads to Rochdale where he discovers a pioneering movement that helped improve the lot of working families. Michael follows in the tracks of swathes of nineteenth-century working people who made day trips from the industrial towns to Hebden Bridge to walk in the beautiful Calder Valley.
