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Great Canal Journeys
Travel · 2014
Last aired: S14 E3, Grand Union and Stratford Canal · 2021-09-08
Sheila Hancock and Gyles Brandreth embark on spectacular canal journeys across Britain and abroad.
Season 14
E1
Episode 1
2021-08-25 · 60 min
Sheila Hancock and Gyles Brandreth are back on the barge to explore the Cambridgeshire Fens. They visit the vicarage where a children's classic was written, make a pilgrimage to Ely Cathedral to hear some medieval plainsong and try their hand at a spot of landscape painting, before ending their journey in Cambridge to pay homage to early 20th-century poetry great Rupert Brooke.
E2
Episode 2
2021-09-01 · 60 min
Sheila Hancock and Gyles Brandreth travel along the Leeds-Liverpool canal across the West Lancashire Coastal Plain, from Wigan to Liverpool. They explore the two things that Wigan is most famous for - its pier and its pies - with Gyles going head head with the world pie-eating champion. They also visit Scarisbrick Hall to tell the story of Houses of Parliament designer Augustus Pugin.
E3
Grand Union and Stratford Canal
2021-09-08 · 60 min
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Timothy West
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Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock
Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth