U&Yesterday Today

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Michael Portillo discovers the secrets of backyard oil drilling in Los Angeles - home to the largest urban oil field in the US - and joins the locals for Mexican Independence Day

Michael Portillo visits Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, learning how surgery was first made bearable in 1846 by a miraculous new substance

Derek picks up an impressive five vehicle haul from a collector who can no longer look after his motors. Paul's out on the road collecting a rare 1972 Lancia Fulvia Berlina

Derek casts his eye over a Citroen 2CV, before he is off admiring the treasure trove of more than 270 motorbikes in the same garage

The role played by engineering giant Vickers during the Second World War, including the development of the Spitfire and how the Royal Navy recovered from losing so many warships

The key events of 1916, examining the unprecedented levels of recruitment by both sides, and the thousands of deaths in the battles of Verdun and the Jutland Peninsula

The team makes a return visit to Helmingham Hall in Suffolk, a Tudor manor house where finds include a historic document signed by Elizabeth I and an extravagant brooch from Sweden

Fiona Bruce presents the show from Newcastle's Civic Centre, where artefacts brought in to be valued include an impressive crossbow and a collection of plans for RMS Mauretania

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 role played by engineering giant Vickers during the Second World War, including the development of the Spitfire and how the Royal Navy recovered from losing so many warships

The key events of 1916, examining the unprecedented levels of recruitment by both sides, and the thousands of deaths in the battles of Verdun and the Jutland Peninsula

The team makes a return visit to Helmingham Hall in Suffolk, a Tudor manor house where finds include a historic document signed by Elizabeth I and an extravagant brooch from Sweden

Simon visits Barbados and St Vincent, before examining the mismanagement of Venezuela's natural resources and spending time with the Kogi people in Colombia

Simon voyages across the Coral Triangle, an area of tropical seas and jungle-clad islands in the south-western Pacific, surrounded by the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia

The adventurer travels from the south of Kenya to the Horn of Africa, along the way joining a Ugandan peace-keeping force in Mogadishu, the capital of war-torn Somalia

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

Exploring the remains of a pioneering industry town in Ohio, a once beautiful Croatian resort bombarded by enemy fire, and an otherworldly garden of Eden in Mexico

The remains of a correctional facility in Atlanta, USA, forgotten remnants of fraud and fusion in Argentina and an ancient complex in Cambodia

The role played by engineering giant Vickers during the Second World War, including the development of the Spitfire and how the Royal Navy recovered from losing so many warships

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