U&Yesterday Tomorrow

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Michael Portillo travels from the south Lincolnshire town of Boston to Hensall, North Yorkshire, discovering the origins of a favourite Victorian apple along the way

Michael Portillo travels from Hessle in East Yorkshire to York, along the way learning about the technology that made the Humber Bridge possible

Michael Portillo travels from Middlesbrough to Hexham, Northumberland, learning about eighth-century monk the Venerable Bede at St Paul's monastery in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear

Michael Portillo travels from Newcastle to Lindisfarne, where he explores the lime kilns and finds out how Christianity spread from there across northern England in the 7th century

The team invest in a piece of French art this week - a 1971 Citroen DS21 Pallas

Derek picks out a super low mileage MGC and the team pays a little too much to secure it

A team of engineers fight to return a veteran Westland Wessex helicopter to the skies - 30 years after its last flight

How the Japanese air force dropped swarms of fleas on a Chinese city in a bid to infect the population with bubonic plague

The experts return to Port Sunlight on the Wirral, where objects include a stash of advertising signs found on a tip, a religious painting and part of an Apollo spaceship

Objects valued at St Andrews University in Scotland include a miniature Japanese sculpture bought for a few pence and a toy collection that inspired the owner to become a pilot

Derek waxes lyrical about a pristine Jaguar XJ8 and a Ford Model T van tests his driving skills

Derek travels to the Yorkshire coast to pick up a 1963 Austin J2 Paralanian campervan, described as the 'Rolls Royce of campervans'.

A team of engineers fight to return a veteran Westland Wessex helicopter to the skies - 30 years after its last flight

How the Japanese air force dropped swarms of fleas on a Chinese city in a bid to infect the population with bubonic plague

The experts return to Port Sunlight on the Wirral, where objects include a stash of advertising signs found on a tip, a religious painting and part of an Apollo spaceship

Simon visits Nicaragua and Honduras on the last leg of his journey, before finishing by spending time with young Jamaicans who have rejected gang life

Deep in the forests of East Prussia, a sprawling Nazi complex becomes the nerve centre of Hitler's empire - and the site of a daring plot against the Fuhrer

Documentary following the lives of polar bears and exploring the impact that environmental changes are having on them

Paul collects a cherished 1924 Rover 9 that's been in the same family since the 1950s and only had one previous owner before that

Paul hits the road to collect an old navy ambulance that served its time as a holiday camper

An Albanian village home to Allied secret agents, devastated for resisting the Nazi war machine, and a notorious asylum in America that enforced lobotomies

Simon visits Nicaragua and Honduras on the last leg of his journey, before finishing by spending time with young Jamaicans who have rejected gang life

Simon and Henry head to an old Second World War airfield in Wiltshire. Simon decides to restore a 1970's caravan while Henry opts for a boat

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Michael Portillo begins the first leg of a journey from south-west Wales to Cambridge, visiting an inn in Carmarthen where Horatio Nelson once met Emma Hamilton

Michael Portillo begins in the ruinous gardens at Aberglasney House near Llandeilo and finishes this leg of his journey at a traditional cider house in Hereford