Mon, Feb 3, 2020
Michael Portillo is in Southeast Asia on a spectacular 2,500 mile railway adventure across 6 countries, and this episode he shows the canal and river scenes and history in Bangkok then we see the attractive European train station in Bangkok where he boards a train for Hua Hin which was the first town where folk went on vacation as it is a pretty coastal town with a lovely beach.
Tue, Jan 28, 2020
Michael travels by train to Lantau, where the new International airport is, Here he visits an old gated village and meets the village leader whose family has lived there a thousand years. We see the huge Buddha statue that was completed in December 1993. Michael interviews an academic at the HKG university to talk about Chiang Kai Shek's legacy.