Gainsborough to Ely Great British Railway Journeys : Season 8 Episode 9
BBC Two 30m
Aired: January 12th, 2017 @ 6:30 PM EST on BBC Two
Steered by his Bradshaw's railway handbook to Gainsborough, Michael Portillo wraps his head around an ingenious Victorian machine which changed shopping forever. In Lincoln, he discovers the verse and popularity of 19th-century Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and finds poetry thrives today in a city pub.
