[Closed] PSA: tonight @21:00 on BBC2 - Great Continental Railway Journeys

Can't wait. Caught the train to Athens once via everywhere top fun.

Portillo is enough to turn me off, as is the annoying, insistent, repetetive, background music. Mute and subtitles then?

Well PSA'd that man.

I'd love to take a train across India one day.

I spent 3 weeks travelling around Europe with an Interail card in the late 80s. It was fanbleedintastic.Paris to Nice on a TGV. What more can a man want. I was with a fit girly too!

is the intention of this PSA to warn us to avoid BBC2@9pm?
sounds interminably dull.

is the intention of this PSA to warn us to avoid BBC2@9pm?
sounds interminably dull.

well yes, 'Great' in the title promised a lot.

Thanks for the heads up. On my to watch list for tonight 🙂

If it wasn't for Portillo, I'd be all over that.

We did the Welsh Highland Railway from Caernarfon to Porthmadoc last week - hard to see how London to Monaco can compare really. 😀

It's good to travel, London to Monaco sounds perfect
For all his distasteful politics, I reckon Portillo wouldn't be a bad travelling companion

Why? I'd happily travel on a train with both Junkyard and Binners whilst they listen and understand how their political belief systems are wrong. As we alight they'd happily shake my hand and thank me for turning them into Telegraph readers.

in his other Train program to be fair he did say he
"didnt realise the sheer disaster to the local communities his government policy's on closing the mines would have"
yay lets all like him again...or maybe you should have bleedin well gone and taken a look instead of living in your lovely home-county house fuelled by cheap European coal before making huge policy decisions that affected YOUR country and YOUR people eh mr P!

It's surprising how personable these people can end up when not being politicians. Even Major seemed like a nice bloke on the TV stuff he's done.

Because, and I stress IMO, he participated in the most hateful government this country has ever seen.

Sorry, but I find the efforts of Portillo, 'chain prisoners in labour to their beds' Widdecombe and the rest of their hateful fellow travellers to rehabilitate themselves to be hypocritical and distasteful in the extreme.

I can't bring myself to watch them.

Sounds great otherwise, though!

I'd love to see a repeat of the original 'Great Railway Journeys of the World'. That was ace.

Out of the bunch, Portillo is more watchable- but only on such a program. He seems to come across as though thats all he does all day long/a sort of a lived in passion.

My 'fear' is this Wrexham child abuse/affair with a senior Tory Politician from that era.

The Government needs to either name and shame or shut up as it sullies alot of Tory politicians from that era.....

Well, I've no idea who it is and I don't want to know until the people involved are charged, tbh.

It's not like STW to take a PSA about a program on railway journeys and turn it into a cyber scuffle...

😀

We got to Thatcherism and kiddy fiddling in one page - whoo, go us!

Is anyone watching 'Extreme Kiteboarding with Ho Chi Min' on Dave later?
That's sure to be a winner.

Or "Tasty Treats From The Wok" with Papa Doc?

We got to Thatcherism and kiddy fiddling in one page - whoo, go us!

The two allegedly have a very close link

That made me 😆

I was speaking to Comrade Binners earlier in the week and I said 'why is it the Tories are always the sleeze and seediest?

What did Labour give us? War and Blunkett in bed with a bird.

Because, and I stress IMO, he participated in the most hateful government this country has ever seen.

Sorry, but I find the efforts of Portillo, 'chain prisoners in labour to their beds' Widdecombe and the rest of their hateful fellow travellers to rehabilitate themselves to be hypocritical and distasteful in the extreme.

To be fair, Its not like they took the country to war on a false premise, leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people, is it....

I'll watch it, ta for the PSA.

To be fair, Its not like they took the country to war on a false premise, leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people, is it....

I see the Blair government as a more extreme extention of the previous Tory administration. 😀

Tis on. Bump for the late boarders

or watch Red Dwarf on Dave

I'd rather watch 'Norman Tebbit's Dubstep Nation'.

I enjoyed that! Amazing buildings, quite breathtaking.

He does need a stylist though - dreadful wardrobe. 😯

We got to Thatcherism and kiddy fiddling in one page - whoo, go us!
The two allegedly have a very close link

Leon Brittan

Agree. The pastel blue jacket then the cyreese pink sheet.

If a Chinese factory copied Red Dwarf...the result would be series X. No improvement just middling copies of old...

Cant wait for the Tyroll!

It didn't really deliver in the end, a bit about Paris and then straight onto the Côte d'Azur

Shame

Austria tonight 🙂

Err Magyar first

i flicked over to see the Swiss version, just for the views and the memories of cycling up those mountains on and off road. its a stunning place.

Portilo was all banging on about the clean trains, efficiency and ease of use, ability to go anywhere - something promised by his Tory government upon privatisation.....

Those swiss landscapes were just stunning, on my bucket list.

I spent 3 weeks travelling around Europe with an Interail card in the late 80s. It was fanbleedintastic.Paris to Nice on a TGV. What more can a man want. I was with a fit girly too!

some friends of mine won a pair of interail cards in a competition. One was strictly too old to get one but they allowed him to have it as it was a prize. Part way through their trip, somewhere in the south of spain a ticket inspector asked to see them and absent-mindedly tore them in half and only gave them half ticket back.

Stunning last night. But Portaloo's moobs in his pink shirt made me feel physically unwell.

Fek..
Missed it.
Fek.
Moobs..
Hurl.

[quote=Harry_the_Spider said]Stunning last night. But Portaloo's moobs in his pink shirt made me feel physically unwell.

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Is he a kwuuuur ?