Hollywood superstar Danny Glover travels along the oldest line in Africa when he takes the Bamako Express from St Louis on the coast of Senegal to Bamako in poverty-stricken Mal ...
09-05-2024
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After more than forty years of Castro's revolution, Cuba's infrastructure is crumbling and the trains no longer run to time. Despite this, comedian Nick Hancock decides to cross ...
07-05-2024
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The Cornish fish cook Rick Stein crosses Mexico from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. \n\nAs a young backpacker, Rick wandered all over Mexico and fell in love with the countr ...
06-05-2024
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BBC foreign correspondent Fergal Keane travels through Japan, beginning his journey on the businessman's bullet train in Tokyo, where he receives earthquake training and lessons ...
02-05-2024
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Former Cabinet minister Michael Portillo reveals his complicated Spanish roots. His father was a professor of law and a poet at Salamanca University who joined the Republican si ...
01-05-2024
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Ian Hislop travels through India from Kolkata, the former capital of the British Raj and present seat of the Marxist government of West Bengal, to the romantic desert forts of R ...
04-04-2024
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Victoria Wood makes a round trip to the north of Britain from Crewe, taking in both the east and west coasts.\n\nAlong her way, Victoria stops off at Carnforth station, location ...
03-03-2024
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Michael Palin, a keen train spotter when young, fulfills his boyhood dream of travelling the length of the country, from Euston to Kyle of Lochalsh.
04-05-2023
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