U&Yesterday Wednesday

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home

Michael Portillo travels from Redditch to Gloucester, beginning with a look back to Victorian times at a needle manufactory

Michael Portillo travels from Stroud to Bath, investigating the Victorian origins of snooker, before stopping in Cirencester, then taking tea with the ladies at his end destination

Michael Portillo travels from Bristol to Glastonbury, entering the smelly world of a Victorian tannery and hearing how a 19th-century entrepreneur turned bird droppings into money

Michael Portillo stands trial at the Bloody Assizes in Somerset, and later gets to grips with a miracle of Victorian engineering on the Somerset Levels

The team fall for a Subaru Pick-up, which has all the Mathewsons in agreement. But will it all come crashing down when picking up parts proves tricky?

A 1973 Ford Escort Mexico is the team's most expensive purchase to date. To save some cash Derek helps on their second buy - a 1968 Riley Kestrel

The epic battle to rebuild The Waterbird, the Royal Navy's first seaplane. Filmed over 12 years, the labour intensive project tests veteran engineer Gerry Cooper

The story behind the Krupp company, who were responsible for the manufacture of two of Germany's most feared war products - the Panzer Tank and the U-boat

Fiona Bruce and the team travel to Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, where items include a 16th-century print and evidence of one of the earliest Beatles concerts

Items under scrutiny at Cawdor Castle near Inverness include the best bargain-buy dolls ever seen on the show and an 18th-century travelling chest with royal connections

On the way to pick up two lovely '70s Lotus sports cars, Derek takes to the skies for his first ever helicopter flight in a 1967 Bell 47 chopper

Dave's drawn to a Fiat Uno 45 in a '1970s beige' with 36,000 miles on the clock

The epic battle to rebuild The Waterbird, the Royal Navy's first seaplane. Filmed over 12 years, the labour intensive project tests veteran engineer Gerry Cooper

The story behind the Krupp company, who were responsible for the manufacture of two of Germany's most feared war products - the Panzer Tank and the U-boat

Fiona Bruce and the team travel to Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, where items include a 16th-century print and evidence of one of the earliest Beatles concerts

The adventurer explores the beautiful and unique landscapes of the Lake District, beginning by meeting Cumbrians with different visions for its future

A look at Winston Churchill's unsuccessful battle to be elected Prime Minister just weeks after VE Day. With Sir Max Hastings, Juliet Gardiner, Anthony Beevor and Dave Douglas

Gordon Buchanan discovers how a Canadian town is kept safe from polar bears, Simon Reeve meets scientists monitoring the melting of glaciers, and Kate Humble goes reindeer herding

Derek checks out an abandoned 1985 Renault 4 and an MGB Roadster that hasn't seen the light of day for 36 years, and Jack heads to Rotherham to pick up a pair of rare Bond Bugs.

A 1970s Bond Bug three-wheeler divides opinion among Mathewsons customers, while a retired engineer reluctantly auctions off his late father's treasured 60s Jaguar Mark 2

A two-hour special featuring a deserted Caribbean city, an American ghost town still burning and an Arctic settlement facing a terrifying future

The adventurer explores the beautiful and unique landscapes of the Lake District, beginning by meeting Cumbrians with different visions for its future

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home

Michael Portillo sets out from Ashford on the first leg of a trip to Henley-on-Thames, lending a hand at a train maintenance plant that is home to High Speed 1 rolling stock

Michael Portillo travels from East Grinstead to Guildford, with his trip including a visit to Leith Hill Place to explore the compositions of Ralph Vaughan Williams