Posted by Peter Ceresole on January 19, 2010 at 14:58:53 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Great British Railway Journeys posted by Owen Roberts on January 19, 2010 at 10:07:57:
This series is running on BBC 2 in the UK. Last week there was an item on Windermere.
Yup. Part of Michael Portillo's second career. As a politician I found him fairly detestable, but he was younger then and as a broadcaster he's fine- an intelligent chap whose father, one remembers, was a Spanish Republican. Heart in the right place then...
Didn't he meet several Dixons there? All except for the actual farmer, who was quite the opposite and rather good fun. But AR had obviously met quite a few of them too...
They had the obvious 'stunt' about Portillo's supposed belief that Kendal Mint cake was a cake, not a sweet, but apart from that I found it rather enjoyable.