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 ten-disc set features 29 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
• Series 5: Transylvania to the Black Sea / Zermatt to Geneva / Tangier to Marrakech / Genoa to the Brenner Pass / Riga to Tampere / Rotterdam to Utrecht