Great Continental Railway Journeys
Nantes to Lorient
Season 8 Episode 16 of 20
Michael Portillo travels across north-west France, exploring the regions of Brittany and Normandy and their historic connections with Great Britain. He begins in Nantes, where he finds various fantastic creatures - both animal and mechanical - in the city's former shipyards. In the Gulf of Morbihan, Michael investigates a rounded stone cairn which conceals a 6,000-year-old burial chamber and in Lorient, he visits the enormous German submarine base from which the Nazis directed the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War
Great Continental Railway Journeys airs on BBC Two Wales HD at 6:30 PM, Monday 31 March. (Subtitles, new.)
Topics
Leisure hobbies
Tourism ➝ Travel
Michael Portillo
Presenter
Celestino Ingrao
Director
John Comerford
Executive Producer
Alison Kreps
Series Editor