Today Tuesday 24 September 19:00 BBC Four TV Great British Railway Journeys Series 11 Episode 12 of 15 Limehouse to Rochford

Following his 1936 Bradshaw’s guidebook, Michael Portillo explores the east of England, in London and Essex, en route to Lincolnshire.

On this leg, Michael alights at Limehouse in east London for Cable Street, which became the focus of Britain’s fight against fascism in the 1930s.