A COMEDIAN has broken the 'golden rule' of train travel on a journey to Bournemouth for a new Radio 4 series.

Alexei Sayle's new radio series, Strangers on a Train, celebrates rail travel with Alexei challenging the British tradition of not chatting to fellow passengers.

The trip to Bournemouth features in the fourth episode on Sunday, July, 31.

In this episode, he travels from Manchester to Bournemouth and meets Moira who, as a dedicated Manchester City fan, has sky blue hair, sky blue clothes and even a sky blue house.

He also talks to Jean who has been to visit a lifelong friend who worked alongside her as a psychiatric nurse, Steven and Simon who are both accountants but spend their leisure time travelling the world together to go to top music gigs, and rail enthusiast and veteran record producer Pete Waterman on one of his thousands of trips on the west coast line.

A spokesman said: "The programme sees him break the golden rule of travelling by train and actually talk to his fellow passengers in a quest for conversations that reveal their lives, hopes, dreams and destinations."

Strangers on a Train’s Manchester to Bournemouth episode airs on Sunday, July 31, at 7.15pm.