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Northallerton to Chester-Le-Street

Michael Portillo confronts a detachment of Gurkhas, produces a fine heritage cheese and discovers a monster cracker that is key to making plastic.

Michael Portillo confronts a detachment of Gurkhas, produces a fine heritage cheese and discovers a monster cracker that is key to making plastic, before ending his postwar journey from Merseyside to Teesside in a recreated 1950s street, where childhood memories are rekindled in the Beamish Museum hairdresser.

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Role Contributor
Presenter Michael Portillo
Director Mike Arnott
Series Editor Alison Kreps
Executive Producer John Comerford
Production Company Fremantle

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