Aired Monday August 8, 6:00pm - 7:00pmon BBC Two HD

Great Indian Railway Journeys

Name: 6:00pm - Series 1 Episode 4
Start: 2022-08-08T17:00:00Z
End: 2022-08-08T18:00:00Z
Location: BBC Two HD

Series 1 Episode 4: Lucknow to Kolkata

On an epic railway journey from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh to Kolkata in West Bengal, Michael Portillo uses his Bradshaw's 1913 Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel, published when the British Raj was fifty-five years old, to chart a course through India's history from the days of The East India Company to the dawn of independence.

Category: Adventure / Documentary / Travel
Original air date: 2018-04-10

Cast and crew

Ben RowlandDirector
Michael PortilloHost