Great British Railway Journeys Season 10 Episode 5 - Birmingham to the Potteries

Airdate: 2019-Feb-08

Episode summary:

Michael Portillo reaches Birmingham and discovers how a radical reformer would make his mark on the city of a thousand trades. At Highbury Hall, he finds Joseph Chamberlain's splendid mansion home and hears how he established a political dynasty including a prime minister and a foreign secretary. Next stop is Cradley Heath, at the time of his Bradshaw's one of five chain-making towns in the West Midlands. Michael learns how 90 percent of the chain workshops in England and Wales were located here and that female workers earned a pittance to produce goods in their homes.

About Great British Railway Journeys series:

Documentary series in which Michael Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country by train.