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TV tonight: all aboard with Michael Portillo for a family journey – The Guardian
The presenter makes tracks to his parents’ native Spain with a trusty 30s guidebook. Plus: Grace Dent dives into retro summer viewing. Here’s what to watch tonight
Great Continental Railway Journeys
8pm, BBC Two
Michael Portillo continues to indulge his penchant for train travel, taking an unusually personal tack in this series as he explores his fathers native Spain with a 1936 edition of his Bradshaws Continental Railway Guide. Beginning in Salamanca, where his leftwing father was an academic, Portillo hears of the violent chaos caused by General Francos rise to power that would ultimately cause his father to flee the country and settle in England. Amm…
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