Written and narrated by John Betjeman.
A new series of biographical films set in the British Isles.
A film on the life of the great nineteenth-century railway and marine engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
"Ours was a seven-foot gauge, our track was wide;
Long, straight, and smooth it crossed the countryside.
Wider and faster than a coach or cart
Triumph of engineering and of art"
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