Clad in his trademark colourful jackets, Michael Portillo embarks on a series of railway adventures which take him through the European continent – and beyond!

Steered by his 1913 Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, Michael journeys through a pre-war age of emperors, kings, pomp and elegance – across a continent whose industrialists had created wealth, whose scientists were discovering the marvellous and whose artists were challenging old ways... whilst intellectuals plotted revolution.

This eight-disc set features 23 different journeys:

Series 1:

• London to Monte Carlo
• Hungary to Austria
• Berlin to The Rhein
• Switzerland
• Amsterdam to Northern France

Series 2:

• Madrid to Gibraltar
• Turin to Venice
• Dresden to Kiel
• Copenhagen to Oslo
• Prague to Munich
• Bordeaux to Bilbao

Series 3:

• Tula to St Petersburg
• Rome to Taormina
• Warsaw to Krakow
• La Coruna to Lisbon
• Haifa to the Negev Desert
• Lyon to Marseille

Series 4:

• Sofia to Istanbul
• Vienna to Trieste
• Pisa to Lake Garda
• Athens to Thessaloniki
• The Black Forest to Hannover
• Barcelona to Mallorca