Season 3 - Episode Guide

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Jan 2, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo discovers the grave robbing history of Great Yarmouth, and tries his hand at working a Victorian swing bridge in Reedham.

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Jan 3, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo follows the Victorians' fascination with Britain's own Atlantis to Dunwich and discovers the history of the Port of Felixstowe.

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Jan 4, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo comes face to face with a medieval politician, takes a rail tour of Victorian freak show hot spots and rides an early electric railway.

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo sees how gunpowder made in Waltham Cross fuelled an empire and heads to Hackney to uncover the gruesome details of the first murder on a train.

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Jan 6, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo takes a ride on a secret miniature railway hidden beneath London's streets and rings the bells of the famous church of Bow.

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Jan 9, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo visits a station fit for royalty in Windsor, and views an engineering triumph built by Brunel to span the Thames at Maidenhead.

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Jan 10, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo tastes a Victorian superfood in Alton, and tries his hand at driving a steam train on the challenging Watercress Line.

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Jan 11, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo experiences the magnificent Victorian organ at Winchester Cathedral, and visits a 19th-century rail works still running in Eastleigh.

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Jan 12, 2012 (30 min)

On the trail of a Victorian snake catcher, Michael Portillo visits the New Forest seeking out venomous adders. He also uncovers a secret library in Wimborne.

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo uncovers the oil fields hidden underneath England's quiet seaside resorts and discovers the crucial role Weymouth played in the D-day landings.

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Jan 16, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo is led to a special view of the city of Oxford by his 19th-century guidebook and samples a Victorian navvies' brew made by steam power.

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Jan 17, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo visits the home of Queen Victoria's favourite bishop, and follows in the footsteps of Victorian health fanatics to the Malvern Hills.

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 18, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo sees why the Victorians fell for the romantic ruins of Tintern Abbey and discovers Britain's hidden micro-mines within the Forest of Dean.

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 19, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo discovers the Victorian coal heritage that turned Cardiff into the city it is today, and takes a steam ride through Brecon Beacons National Park.

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Jan 20, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo explores the Victorian railway legacy behind the steel works of Port Talbot and uncovers the whaling past of Milford Haven.

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Jan 23, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo discovers the unique cross-border history of Berwick-upon-Tweed and hears the unique story of the Pitman Painters of Ashington.

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Jan 24, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo follows the example of Victorian archaeologists at Hadrian's Wall and sees how the Victorian railways first fuelled invention in Wigton.

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Jan 25, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo drinks a Victorian brew drawn from the pure waters of Cockermouth and steps inside the hidden world of nuclear reprocessing at Sellafield.

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Jan 26, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo finds out the secrets behind Kirkby's famous blue slate and submerges himself into a secret world of nuclear submarines in Barrow.

Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Jan 27, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo sets sail from Heysham to the Isle of Man, where he discovers the horse trams of Douglas and the secrets of the giant Laxey Wheel.

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Jan 30, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo observes the engineering feat involved in building the railway along Dublin's treacherous East coast and explores a Victorian jail.

Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Jan 31, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo explores the railway network within the Bog of Allen, discovering the secrets behind the Boyne Viaduct and exploring the Irish Zinc mines.

Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo visits the amazing Cromlech stones of Dundalk and travels in style along the steam railway of Downpatrick.

Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: Feb 2, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo explores the fascinating history of Belfast's Victorian docks and discovers the Irish spade-making traditions untouched for over 150 years.

Episode: 3x25 | Airdate: Feb 3, 2012 (30 min)

Michael Portillo takes a white knuckle walk over the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge and experiences the delights of the Giant's Causeway.