Season 2
5 episodes · Nov 2, 2018
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- S2E1
Plastic Surgery Pioneers: Cambridge Military Hospital
Nov 2, 201860mMichael visits the beautiful, forbidding and now abandoned military hospital in the garrison town of Aldershot to uncover the pioneering work of reconstructive surgeons.
- S2E2
Local Heroes: Manchester Fire Station
Nov 9, 201860mIn Manchester, Michael ventures inside the London Road Fire Station, which was decommissioned in 1986 after 80 years' service.
- S2E3
Countdown to WW3
Nov 16, 201860mMichael Portillo visits a top-secret Cold War stronghold, just a mile from the Cambridge campus where he spent his university years. The bunker, formerly known as RSG-4, was built in 1953 to house 300 local government officials from Cambridgeshire in the event of a nuclear attack. The former politician is also given access to the decommissioned Soviet nuclear submarine U-475 Black Widow - currently moored at Strood on the River Medway - revealing how close the world came to a full-scale nuclear war.
- S2E4
The Palace of Dreams
Nov 30, 201860mThe New Victoria in Bradford was Britain's first cinema.
- S2E5
Seaside Escape
Dec 7, 201860mMichael Portillo explores the history of the British seaside resort. He gets up close and personal with the ghostly skeleton of Brighton's West pier, which has become one of the UK's most well known ruins. He meets Jo Berry, daughter of Conservative MP Sir Anthony Berry who was killed by an IRA bomb at Brighton's Grand Hotel.