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Where To Stream Great British Railway Journeys Season 14 Episode 11

Derby to Hinckley

Michael Portillo explores the postwar Britain of his youth on a railway journey from the Midlands to the West Country. Beginning in Derby's famous 19th-century railway works, Michael hears how the Victorian sheds now house some of the most up to date assembly lines in Britain for building electric trains. In Leicester, Michael looks back to the early 1970s, when around 10,000 Asians arrived in the city after being expelled from Uganda by the dictator Idi Amin. On the outskirts of the city,...