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.

In 1825, a British engineer named George Stephenson designed a machine – the Locomotion No 1 – capable of using a steam engine to move itself along tracks. As Michael Portillo explains tonight, it was ...

This year marks 200 years of the modern British railway, and to celebrate the momentous occasion, Michael Portillo will be visiting County Durham in a new BBC documentary series. In the first episode ...

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 ...

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Great British Railway Journey presenter Michael Portillo has shown viewers his love for local culture and railway history, but there was a time he warned the rail route that is now known as the ...

Michael explores highlights and hidden secrets of the country, starting out in the cosmopolitan second city of Porto, whose chic shopping boulevards and tourist hotspots hides a proud industrial past ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Michael Portillo was a Minister for Defence in the United Kingdom with seven videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1995 Foreign Legislature. The year ...