U&Yesterday Tomorrow

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home

Michael Portillo travels from Northampton to Nuneaton, learning about Victorian methods of shoemaking and the legacy of Dr Thomas Arnold at Rugby School

Michael Portillo travels from Leicester to Loughborough, finding out about the hunt for Richard III's remains and working his passage on the Great Central Railway

Michael Portillo completes his journey to Leeds, finding out how rail workers shaped British political history and auditioning at Britain's oldest continuously working music hall

Michael Portillo embarks on the first leg of a journey from Southampton to Wolverhampton, beginning by learning how to set a table aboard the luxury liner Queen Elizabeth

Up for auction this week is a 1980 Ford Escort, a hand-built 1946 Bedford 12 electric car, and a beautiful, red 1957 Austin Healey.

Derek collects a beautifully restored and carefully modified 1936 Wolseley 14/56. Meanwhile, a Batman-inspired Chrysler Crossfire is dropped off at the Thornton le Dale garage

Documentary examining the Eastern Front during the Second World War, beginning in autumn 1940 as Hitler has to decide what to do about the USSR and its leader Stalin

While America had Ford, Chrysler and Buick, Hitler also wanted a car that would transform his nation - the 'people's car', or Volkswagen

Fiona Bruce presents from Hertford College, Oxford, where items valued include a bracelet once worn by a princess and a rare document recording the end of the First World War

Fiona Bruce and the team head to the Tamar Valley in Devon, and weigh anchor at Morwellham Quay

A classic car fan with a love of the Jaguar E-Type reluctantly sends his dream car to auction, hoping to buy a motorhome with the money. Two Ford Escorts get Dave's pulse racing

A widow reluctantly parts with her husband's treasured collection of Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, and an impulse buyer finds one of the cars a new home

Documentary examining the Eastern Front during the Second World War, beginning in autumn 1940 as Hitler has to decide what to do about the USSR and its leader Stalin

While America had Ford, Chrysler and Buick, Hitler also wanted a car that would transform his nation - the 'people's car', or Volkswagen

Fiona Bruce presents from Hertford College, Oxford, where items valued include a bracelet once worn by a princess and a rare document recording the end of the First World War

Two iconic classics find their way to the Mathewsons' auction room. Dave heads to north Manchester to pick up an Austin A30 and a Morris 8E that's had an alternative paint job

Robbie's narrowboat gets stuck under a low bridge on the challenging Basingstoke Canal as he battles through water weed. Can he make it to journey's end?

The Restoring Classics team take Derek's advice when he sniffs out the rarest car they've ever taken on - the last remaining Hillman GT

The team is under pressure with a record number of cars to auction, but Derek finds room for one more - a replica AC Cobra. A couple are reunited with their Volvo breakdown truck

Paul is picking up a stunning 1961 Vauxhall Cresta, inspired by American design, the car changed the face of British motoring

Shamil buys a 70s Jukebox in need of repair, and Matt has his work cut out with a collectable Kit Cat clock that doesn't tell the time

Exploring Opa-Locka City Hall, a strange structure that began as the dream of an American Renaissance man, but soon turned into a nightmare

Exploring Namibia's arid Skeleton Coast, where traces of a brutal but once vital industry lie scattered

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home

Michael Portillo travels through Hampshire and Berkshire, visiting the stately home bequeathed by the nation to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, in 1817

Michael Portillo travels from Wokingham to Bradford on Avon, learning how demand from a growing number of rail commuters fuelled the development of the modern printing press