Lab director Andy Parker smashes particles with the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, in Geneva.
He shows Michael the LHC’s forerunner, the accelerator with which John Cockroft and Ernest Walton made the first controlled splitting of the atom in 1932.
In Impington, to the north of Cambridge, Michael investigates the progressive architecture of the village school and finds it was built by the founder of the Bauhaus school, Walter Gropius, in the 1930s.
Michael Portillo with Sir Mark Prescott at the National Horse Racing Museum, Newmarket, during episode 10 of Great British Railway Journeys series 12.
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In Stevenage, Michael learns how, in 1935, a new enterprise boosted production of the nation s daily loaf with a factory in the town.
Allied Bakeries now produces 1.8 million loaves a week, and Michael marvels at the scale of the operation while enjoying the smell of freshly baked bread.
Michael Portillo at Allied Bakeries in Stevenage for Great British Railway Journeys on BBC Two.
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Crossing the county border into Bedfordshire, presenter Michael reaches Sandy, from which he heads for Cardington.
Here the level countryside is dominated by two breathtakingly vast sheds.
In Hangar No 2, Michael hears the shocking story of the Titanic of the skies , the R101 airship, which crashed on its first long-haul voyage.
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1789 “The Mutiny on the Bounty”’ as Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against his commanding officer William Bligh the HMS
Bounty, placing Bligh and some of his crew adrift on an open boat.
1887 The first automobile race was won by French engineer Georges Bouton, the only entrant. The race was a distance of about 1.2 miles in a steam-powered vehicle.
1932 British physicists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton announced they had split an atom using a particle accelerator. This was the first split of the nucleus in a fully controlled manner.