Great Asian Railway Journeys: Chinatown to Gardens by the Bay

Michael Portillo arrives in the island city state of Singapore on the last leg of his 2,500-mile exploration of south-east Asia. In Tai Seng he marvels at the world's largest subterranean rail depot where self-driving MRT trains are operated. He then takes a cable car to the island of Sentosa where he learns about one of Britain's worst military defeats and the brutal Japanese occupation that followed. At the Singapore Stock Exchange, Michael appreciates the island's success as a financial centre and, in the residential district of Ang Mo Kio, visits an urban farm of the future - on a car park roof