Forgive the politics, but 'Were you up for Portillo'? [video=youtube;BVvWE6V9ulE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVvWE6V9ulE[/video]
Excellent set of series - it was good to see this episode again. Lots of great facts about Britain that're easy to forget over time. I think he does a good job presenting the shows. Thanks for the reminder.
He makes a good presenter as he is genuinely interested in his subject. Also is interested in what people have to say instead of projecting himself all the time. The other series he did about European railways, again using Bradshaw's for reference is well worth watching (although it is a bit depressing comparing some of those railways with ours) and one about how the railways shaped WW1 are worth catching if you haven't seen them.
Did anyone ever hear the R4 stuff he did on his father? It seems that the reason Portillo was born here (instead of Spain) is that his pops had to flee Franco and the Falange. He was on the Left and thus had to come here.
Funny to think that he and Diane Abbott were school mates. One perceived as privileged and the other who likes to give the impression she fought her way up after a tough start in life.
Thanks for the reminder as I hadn't seen the programme.My father was in charge of repairs for one of the trawler fleets (can't remember which one) and when a trawler returned he came home with huge fillets of cod or haddock in the late '50s/early'60s that I was sick of fish.Wouldn't be the case today with the advantage of freezers. Remember him going on trials with a trawler after repairs up the Humber and North Sea with the expectation of being "dropped off" at Bridlington.The skipper had other thoughts and eventually let him off at Aberdeen at 2am.He wasn't very happy with no hotels open so got a taxi back to Hull!!!
