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Bradford to Hebden Bridge

Michael Portillo continues his postwar exploration of north west England in Bradford, Shipley and Hebden Bridge.

Michael Portillo continues his postwar exploration of north west England in Bradford, Shipley and Hebden Bridge.

In Centenary Square in Bradford, Michael encounters Bradford鈥檚 literary giant JB Priestley, author of An Inspector Calls. In the Bradford Royal Infirmary, Michael traces the hospital's pioneering history of chemotherapy and learns how new drugs to impede the spread of cancer are being developed at Bradford鈥檚 Institute of Cancer Therapeutics.

Just north of Bradford, at Shipley station, Michael discovers a nature reserve in the middle of a car park that's home to more than 14 species of butterfly and moth. And the Calder Valley Line delivers Michael to the pretty station at Hebden Bridge, once a mill town in decline but today popular with many same-sex couples.

28 minutes

Credits

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

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