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Great Continental Railway Journeys
9PM, BBC2 In Switzerland for the next leg of his journey, Michael Portillo doesn’t just let the train take the strain. In the Swiss Alps, he is buried in the snow to test the training regime of St Bernard rescue dogs, and later takes to the skies to fly over the Alps in a 1937 biplane. The views, by air or rail, are simply spectacular.