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Michael Portillo is in south east Asia, armed with his 1913 Bradshaw鈥檚 Handbook. It leads him on a spectacular 2,500-mile railway adventure across six countries. Michael explores towering megacities and magnificent mosques, visits jewelled temples and golden Buddhas and rides some of the world鈥檚 most exhilarating and notorious railways.

Beginning in Hong Kong, Michael investigates how Britain won the island and Kowloon from China after two shocking drug wars. He boards the island鈥檚 most famous funicular to The Peak and straddles a bamboo pole to learn the traditional Cantonese art of noodle making!