Michael Portillo has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is Michael Portillo.
Great Continental Railway Journeys
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A must-have purchase for any armchair fan of unique and award-winning travel programming. Great Continental Railway Journeys is now a firmly established series on BBC2, following in the illustrious tracks of its predecessor - Great British Railway Journeys. Both series are fronted by ex-politician Michael Portillo, and in this European odyssey he travels around continental Europe using George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide. Now coming up for its fourth instalment this autumn, Portillo guides the train-travelling fan across Europe, arriving at a myriad of magical and historically fascinating cities we all dream of travelling to by train. From London to Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Copenhagen, Oslo, Lisbon, Madrid, Berlin, Monte Carlo, Prague, Munich, Zurich, Rome, Budapest, and St Petersburg all the way down to Constantinople, Haifa and Jerusalem, Portillo describes the great feats of engineering that built the various railway lines connecting Europe and further afield and the men and women who made these journeys famous through their deeds and words. This audiobook covers every single journey Portillo has undertaken across Europe, capturing all the colour, beauty, excitement and fervour of journeying across this historic continent can muster.
©2015 FremantleMedia Ltd 2015. First published in great Britain in 2015 by Simon & Schuster UK (P)2016 Bolinda
Portillo's Hidden History of Britain
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Portillo's Hidden History of Britain presents a compelling and wonderfully evocative history of Britain through the stories of its 'lost' or abandoned buildings. The chapters will cover a variety of historical themes: Crime and Punishment, Health and Medicine, Defence and Warfare, Manufacturing Industry, Transport and Communication, and Entertainment and Leisure. Using a combination of his own investigations and archive research, plus memories and quotations from the contributors he interviewed for the series, Michael will explain what the buildings were used for and by whom, why they were abandoned and what they can tell us about our past. For example: Learn what the ruins of London Road Fire and Police Station in Manchester reveal about the history of the emergency services in the last 100 years. How Bradford's art deco Odeon cinema encapsulates a century of filmmaking and movie-going. The walls of all these buildings have ears, and Michael's mission is to find out what they heard. With evocative text that brings each location vividly to life, Michael describes the building and its activities in its heyday and compares this past life with its faded grandeur or melancholic abandonment seen today. Filled with fascinating insights and observations, his narrative provides a compelling and original perspective on Britain's social, military and industrial history.
©2018 Michael Portillo (P)2018 Michael O'Mara
Michael Portillo
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In Top of the Class, John Wilson meets leading figures in their fields and takes them back to the places and people they left behind. In this episode from the third series, Michael Portillo heads back to his former school in Harrow. In his day, it was a boys' grammar school and in this visit, to celebrate one hundred years of the school, Michael is one of the guest speakers. The school has changed greatly since Michael's time there and is now a mixed comprehensive. At the school, Michael is reunited with one of his former teachers, Mr. Ken Waller, who remembers him as a very conscientious pupil and someone who he never thought would go into politics! John Wilson also manages to get the school to find an old school report of Michael's which he has never seen.
©2012 AudioGO Ltd