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Great Continental Railway Journeys Series 8 Episodes

    Zweisimmen to Lausanne

    15/20 Michael wends his way in style down mountainsides from Interlaken to the Swiss Riviera.

    Rotkreuz to Brienz

    14/20 Michael Portillo scales the Swiss Alps on one of the steepest cog railways in the world.

    Zurich

    13/20 In Zurich, Michael has a brush with the absurd in the anarchic paintings of the Dadaists.

    Sedrun to Schwyz

    12/20 Michael Portillo ventures into the bowels of an immense hydroelectric dam.