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Great British Railway Journeys
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Friday, October 23
Solihull to Birmingham International
Season 16 · Episode 15
On the final leg of his tour of the Midlands, Michael Portillo travels to the Land Rover factory in Solihull, which produced the first model in the 1940s. In Hall Green, he visits the childhood neighbourhood of author JRR Tolkien and learns how the peaceful rural setting of Sarehole Mill provided inspiration for the fantasy world of Middle Earth in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
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- Michael Portillo — Presenter
- Mike Arnott — Director
- Alison Kreps — Executive producer
- John Comerford — Executive producer
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