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Great Asian Railway Journeys is a 20-part BBC travel and history documentary series produced by Boundless and presented by Michael Portillo, a former Conservative MP and Minister of State for Transport. Following the format of the highly successful Great British Railway Journeys and related series with Portillo as presenter, each episode features a railway journey in south-east Asia using Bradshaw's Through Routes to the Chief Cities, and Bathing, and Health Resorts of the World (1913)[a] as a historical reference, in order to consider how the places visited have changed over the preceding century.

During the course of the series, Portillo travels a total distance of 2,500 miles and passes through six countries, beginning with the Chinese territory of Hong Kong then moving on to Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia before reaching his final destination of Singapore. One of the main themes he explores is colonial history, examining the legacy of the British, French, Dutch and Portuguese Empires, and how the countries involved gained their independence


1 "Kowloon to Wan Chai"
2 "Hong Kong University to Lantau Island"
3 "Chiang Mai to Lampang"
4 "Ayutthaya to River Kwai"
5 "Bangkok"
6 "Bangkok to Hua Hin" 
7 "Ho Chi Minh City to Phan Thiet" 
8 "Da Nang to Hoi An" 
9 "Huế to Ninh Bình" 
10 "Hanoi to Ha Long Bay"
11 "Jakarta to Bogor"
12 "Jakarta to Borobudur/Kutoarjo"
13 "Yogyakarta to Ambarawa"
14 "Ambarawa to Surabaya"
15 "Penang to Kuala Kangsar"
16 "Kuala Kangsar to Cameron Highlands"
17 "Kuala Lumpur to Melaka"
18 "Melaka to Johor Bahru"
19 "Raffles Place to Botanic Gardens"
20 "Chinatown to Gardens by the Bay"