Great British Railway Journeys
Kielder Forest to Edinburgh
Season 11 Episode 2 of 15
Michael Portillo is in Northumbria en route to the Highlands, heading to Kielder Forest to discover what lay behind a national initiative to plant one of the largest manmade woodlands in Europe. Crossing the border to Scotland, Michael arrives in the weaving town of Hawick to visit Lovat Mill, where, in the 1930s, tweed was big business, and also goes to the movies, sitting in the front stalls at the Dominion cinema in Morningside
Great British Railway Journeys airs on Yesterday HD at 12:00 PM, Tuesday 2 July. (Subtitles.)
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Michael Portillo
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Alison Kreps
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Anthony Holland
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