Michael Portillo opened up about ageing as he explored Asia.

Michael Portillo is back on screens with Series 9 of BBC travel show Great Continental Railway Journeys and he has revealed what keeps pulling him back to Europe's railways.

Famed British broadcaster Michael Portillo visited the Lartigue Monorail in Listowel and met with volunteers at the historic railway to shoot footage for the BBC series Great Railway Journeys on ...

Michael Portillo is on the last stretch of his railway adventure through the Balkan countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina and ...

Michael Portillo takes to the rails to explore one of Britain’s oldest surviving landscapes, the woods and pasture of the Weald in south east England. Michael Portillo’s rail exploration of the ...

Michael Portillo’s Scottish coastal railway journey reaches Invergordon on the Cromarty Firth, the third great inlet on the northeast coast of the Highlands. Michael Portillo's coastal railway journey ...

Continuing his travels in Budapest, Michael Portillo begins in the small town of Huvösvölgy, in the hills above the city, at ...

Michael Portillo returns to BBC Two and BBC iPlayer with four new Great Railway Journeys to air this spring. “I am delighted that these new journeys are about to reach the screen,” said Portillo.

He was a staunch Brexiteer.

The latest stage of Michael Portillo's trek takes him past lochs and castles on the Far North Line to Britain's northernmost railway station at Thurso.

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