Portillo's Hidden History Of Britain. Some prisoners would probably have spent years in that tiny cell. Season: OR . And that’s one of the interesting points raised by the Orford Ness programme: how much should the people know about what our government does to keep us safe?’‘People have speculated that Jack might have been connected, in some way, to the hospital,’ says Michael.
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Never was a more important inmate kept there under lock and key! The closest I’ve got is knowing people who have been in jail - after all, I was a member of Parliament - and visiting them there during their sentence.’He became a pitiful freak show and was only saved from a lifetime of public humiliation by surgeon Frederick Treves, who gave him a place of sanctuary at The Royal London.The final programme in the series takes viewers to the village of Imber on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. S2, Ep1 . Portillo&;s Secret History of Britain presents a compelling and wonderfully evocative history of Britain through the stories of its "lost" or abandoned buildings. During the war it was home to The Magna Carta!‘We discover that it is where hydrogen bombs were heated up and then cooled downThe former politician also discovers that The Royal London is the hospital where some of Jack The Ripper’s victims were examined, having been expertly dissected by the serial killer.‘I speak to a man called Roger Harrison who worked on a venture called Cobra Mist, an Anglo-American project that is reckoned to have cost one billion dollars in today’s money and was set up to spy on Russian military manoeuvres before being abruptly shut down when either the Russians compromised the operation or the technology proved faulty.‘What’s extraordinary about Cobra Mist, and so much of what went on at Orford, was that the public were completely oblivious to it.
Imagine what that would have been like.’Michael is left deeply moved by the sight of Merrick’s hat and mask, items designed to hide his deformed body from public ridicule, and meets geneticist Richard Trembath who is trying to unravel the mystery of Merrick’s disease.Nightmares, of one sort of another, are a recurring theme in Hidden History Of Britain.It is truly extraordinary to think that a document like the Magna Carta was stored, quite possibly in a cell like the one I got locked in. Use the HTML below.You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin.Michael Portillo tells the story of how a small island on the edge of Europe built the biggest empire the world has ever seen.Michael explores Shepton Mallet prison which over its 400-year history has seen executions and escape attempts, been used as a store for historical documents during wartime and became the U.S. ...Michael visits the Royal London Hospital in the East End which closed its doors in 2013 but pioneered medical breakthroughs and universal health-care for generations from its founding in 1740.By scanning the locations at the bottom of the ocean where sunken ships, treasures and even cities lie, the show tries to answer what they look like, how they got there and if they hide any secrets.Michael Portillo travels around South-east Asia, guided by his 1913 Bradshaw's Handbook on a 2,500-mile railway adventure across six countries. In Portillo's Hidden History of Britain, his captivating companion to the Channel 5 series, Michael Portillo combines the skills of historian and detective as he investigates some of Britain's most interesting 'lost' buildings. It ceased to be home to its residents in 1943 when the military took it over, retaining control of the area to this day.
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Portillo’s Secret History of Britain presents a compelling and wonderfully evocative history of Britain through the stories of its ‘lost’ or abandoned places and buildings.The chapters cover a variety of historical themes: Crime and Punishment, Health and Medicine, D Year: Season 2.
We are no longer accepting comments on this article.The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.In the first programme in the series, Michael visits the Royal London Hospital in the city’s East End and recounts the Hellish story of the horribly deformed Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man.‘It’s my recurring nightmare, to be locked in a cell and not know why I’m there and for how long I am going to be there so it was a very unpleasant experience,` says Michael.Visibly disturbed, he shuddered, mumbled the words nasty and claustrophia and made a beeline for the door of the cell, after a few minutes, which thankfully opened on cue.so that they wouldn’t go off in mid-air.