U&Yesterday Today

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Michael Portillo examines the history of the US rail network, beginning on Manhattan Island and travelling from Grand Central Terminal to the site of Ground Zero

Michael Portillo heads east from Manhattan to Brooklyn, and takes the Long Island Railroad to Queens. He then visits Oheka Castle before concluding this leg at Montauk lighthouse

Derek rubs shoulders with pop music royalty when he picks up a Morgan sports car, while a Second World War ambulance arrives at Thornton le Dale

The Mathewsons take in a 1982 Audi Quattro and a Sunbeam Alpine. Plus, Derek takes delivery of a beautiful green Renault van, previously used as a bread van in Paris

A look at Wernher von Braun, the gifted young scientist whose ambition led him to abandon any sense of morality in pursuit of his dream of space flight

As Hitler's shadow engulfs Europe, ancient castles across the continent fall under Nazi control and are transformed to serve the ambitions of the Third Reich

Fiona Bruce presents the show from the Eden Project in Cornwall, where items include fragments of hair from Samuel Taylor Coleridge and a plate dating back to 300BC

Fiona Bruce presents the show from Sefton Park in Liverpool, where items include 2,000-year-old cufflinks, a letter from Kate Bush, and a portrait from the English Civil War

Dave's in Lincolnshire picking up a 1935 Riley Falcon - a good-looking saloon car, with a pre-select gearbox

Derek brings a small army of military hardware to Thornton le Dale including a Studebaker Weasel tracked vehicle and a WWII-era Willys Jeep

A look at Wernher von Braun, the gifted young scientist whose ambition led him to abandon any sense of morality in pursuit of his dream of space flight

As Hitler's shadow engulfs Europe, ancient castles across the continent fall under Nazi control and are transformed to serve the ambitions of the Third Reich

Fiona Bruce presents the show from the Eden Project in Cornwall, where items include fragments of hair from Samuel Taylor Coleridge and a plate dating back to 300BC

Timothy West and Prunella Scales explore Argentina's waterways in a traditional cargo boat, venturing into a labyrinth of canals and rivers in the jungles outside Buenos Aires

Father and son duo Paul and Charlie are off on a road trip to Northampton, to extract a Daimler Sovereign, and a Sunbeam Alpine and that's been languishing in a garage since 1973

The team's first purchase is a 1972 VW Fastback, and the second project sees them pick up a 40-year-old police bike

Dave's in Lincolnshire picking up a 1935 Riley Falcon - a good-looking saloon car, with a pre-select gearbox

Derek brings a small army of military hardware to Thornton le Dale including a Studebaker Weasel tracked vehicle and a WWII-era Willys Jeep

Bizarrely shaped huts in India, once home to global superstars, which are now eerily quiet and neglected, and a shattered compound in Colombia linked to a criminal mastermind

The home of an African dictator and a sporting hero, and the facility that held apartheid's greatest critic are abandoned, but still have unique stories to tell

A look at Wernher von Braun, the gifted young scientist whose ambition led him to abandon any sense of morality in pursuit of his dream of space flight

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