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- The lives of four drug dealers, one user, and two prostitutes are explored.
- A lonely boy who lives in his parents' home for the elderly explores his obsession with the afterlife through his friendship with an aging magician.
- 2010– 29m7.3 (7)TV EpisodeAt Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire Michael discovers the legacy of a German Jewish doctor who fled the Nazis to settle in Britain. He travels through the Chiltern Hills learning about a banned motor racing event and a design classic.
- Michael visits Hatch End to learn about an illustrator whose name has entered the dictionary. In Slough he tours the world's first out-of-town trading estate. He visits a memorial garden in Stoke Poges before visiting historic Windsor.
- The way TV pollutes our minds with the wrong kind of information.
- Michael travels from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, to Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, finding out about the remarkable craftsmen behind the Victorian furniture trade
- Michael learns how the railways helped to make Birmingham the pen-making capital of the world, hears the chilling tale of one of 19th-century Britain's most notorious murderers and samples delicacies concocted in a Victorian kitchen.
- 2014–TV Episode
- Beginning in the heart of academia in Oxford, Michael visits the Bodleian library to see some Victorian treasures, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein manuscript and a pocket-sized edition of Bradshaw's Companion. At Bicester, he investigates two new rail projects, finds out about Victorian philanthropy in Bedford and finishes in Luton, where he explores the dark arts of the hat-maker.
- Michael visits Birmingham, then travels on to Cradley Heath and Landywood, before reaching the Potteries at Stoke-on-Trent.
- In Warwick's medieval castle, Michael Portillo uncovers the scene of an extravagant and scandalous ball, which changed the life of its hostess, Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick.