U&Yesterday Wednesday

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

Michael Portillo travels from Chippenham to Gloucester, visiting Bristol Zoo and examining an extraordinary piece of Victorian engineering at Severn Tunnel Junction

Michael Portillo ends his journey to Wolverhampton, where he hears about a visit by Queen Victoria that signalled the end of her exile from public life after Prince Albert's death

Paul's doing the pick-ups in Lancashire where a rare 1960 Vauxhall Cresta PA Friary estate in dusky pink awaits

A vivid Dutch DAF 66 - in daffodil yellow - lands at the North Yorkshire showroom

A furious Hitler takes charge of the German army after losing the battle for Moscow, while Stalin does the same with the Red Army after banishing former chief Zhukov to the front

The incredible story of the arms race to create America's nuclear arms factories

Fiona Bruce visits Lincoln Cathedral, where objects brought to be valued include a set of surgeon's tools from the 1860s and a plate that has spent years hidden in a cupboard

The team revisits Lincoln Cathedral, where items examined include a Georgian dining table and a Chinese picture bought for very little

Behind the scenes of a car auction business. A near-perfect 50s Chevy panel van and a very desirable low-mileage 80s Brooklands Capri tempt auctioneer Derek out of Yorkshire

The team struggles to explain how a DAF 33 gearbox works, and office manager Sarah attempts to bring order to the auto memorabilia sale

A furious Hitler takes charge of the German army after losing the battle for Moscow, while Stalin does the same with the Red Army after banishing former chief Zhukov to the front

The incredible story of the arms race to create America's nuclear arms factories

Fiona Bruce visits Lincoln Cathedral, where objects brought to be valued include a set of surgeon's tools from the 1860s and a plate that has spent years hidden in a cupboard

An impressive collection of five iconic cars arrives at Thornton le Dale, including a 1967 Crayford Corsair and a 1966 Ford Zodiac which emerge from a garage in Selby

Michael Portillo begins a journey from the Midlands to the West Country, visiting Derby's famous 19th-century railway works and the Walkers crisps factory in Leicester

Michael Portillo hears about the destruction of Coventry's gothic cathedral by the German Luftwaffe in 1940, and visits the nearby factory where the iconic London taxi is built

Part two of two. Simon travels along the Black Sea Coast to the capital of Ankara, and witnesses first hand the aftermath of fighting in Kurdish areas before returning to Istanbul

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

Derek inspects a brace of old cop cars including a Rover P6 complete with radio, sirens and V8 engine, and a former Mod waves ciao to his collection of 1960s Italian scooters

Shamil and Rob head out to a vintage gaming emporium and they get their hands on a Commodore 64 and a Spectrum ZX

Exploring the Tunisian desert and a vast chain of ruins that once stood in the way of Allied Victory - until a band of rogue heroes uncovered their weakness

Exploring Fort Amador, the site of an American invasion in Panama, and a grisly Polish facility that once caged members of a revolutionary movement

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home

Michael Portillo embarks on the first leg of a journey from Norwich to Chichester, examining the Victorian public's gory fascination with crime and punishment along the way

Michael Portillo travels from Ipswich to Chelmsford, dredging for oysters off Mersea Island and visiting the world's first purpose-built radio equipment factory