Great British Railway Journeys: Birmingham to Stafford

Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with his copy of Bradshaw's Victorian railway guidebook, travelling the length and breadth of the British Isles to see what of Bradshaw's world remains. The series of journeys along the tracks that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution continues in the manufacturing centres of the Midlands. Michael learns how the railways helped to make Birmingham the pen-making capital of the world, hears the chilling tale of one of 19th century Britain's most notorious murderers, and samples the delicacies concocted in a Victorian kitchen at Shugborough Hall.