Great Railway Journeys

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Great Railway Journeys

Hollywood star Danny Glover rides the oldest line in Africa when he takes the Bamako Express from Senegal to Mali. En route he meets Youssou N'Dour.

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Series 4
Travels by train. Nick Hancock crosses Cuba. Along the way he meets boxers, ballet dancers, faded divas and a fascinating array of failed revolutionaries.
Documentary series looking at the rail routes used by ordinary people. Rick Stein crosses Mexico from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
BBC foreign correspondent Fergal Keane travels through Japan, beginning his journey on the businessman's bullet train in Tokyo.
Using Spain's comprehensive rail network, former Cabinet minister Michael Portillo explores his complex Spanish roots and reveals his family's troubled past.
Ian Hislop travels from Kolkata, the former capital of the British Raj and present seat of the Marxist government of West Bengal, to Rajasthan.
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