Great British Railway Journeys2010
Great British Railway Journeys is a BBC documentary series presented by Michael Portillo. It premiered in 2010 on BBC Two, and has returned every year for a total of nine series.
The series features Portillo travelling around the railway networks of… more »
[talking about Hadrian's Wall]
Michael Portillo:
The Emperor Hadrian built it to keep out the Caledonians. It runs from coast to coast. It was eleven feet high, it had ditches, it had a castle every mile, it had fortresses big enough to hold 17,000 troops. Four legions built it in eight years. It was the most fantastic engineering project. You have to be impressed. And you have to be DEpressed - that so much effort was put into keeping two peoples separate.
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