U&Yesterday HD Wednesday

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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

Derek travels to the Lancashire coast to pick up a rare 1972 Citroen SM, and Dave is on HQ duties and admires a Punto that's two decades old but has just 42 miles on the clock

Derek is on the road to pick up a funky little Nissan Figaro and a sublime Ferrari 250 GT tribute car, and Paul gets to try out his spanking new Scania T Cab

Examining the complex system the Nazis set up to implement the extermination of the Jewish race throughout Europe from 1942, with Auschwitz as the hub

Hiram Maxim developed the world's first fully automatic machine gun, but it weighed a whopping 136lbs - until British company Vickers adapted the design

Fiona Bruce presents assessments of items not initially shown in programmes from Abbotsford and Burghley, including a jewel box made for a princess and a Chinese watercolour

The team returns to Chester Cathedral, where objects include a sheriff's ring of office, hand-carved wooden shoes and a painting that has been left lying under a bed

A 1970 Excalibur Roadstar, once owned by Roy Orbison, arrives at Thornton-le-Dale and Derek heads to County Durham to collect a 1935 Austin 7 Ulster

Two iconic classics find their way to the Mathewsons' auction room. Dave heads to north Manchester to pick up an Austin A30 and a Morris 8E that's had an alternative paint job

Examining the complex system the Nazis set up to implement the extermination of the Jewish race throughout Europe from 1942, with Auschwitz as the hub

Hiram Maxim developed the world's first fully automatic machine gun, but it weighed a whopping 136lbs - until British company Vickers adapted the design

Fiona Bruce presents assessments of items not initially shown in programmes from Abbotsford and Burghley, including a jewel box made for a princess and a Chinese watercolour

Michael Portillo travels through Minneapolis and St Paul, where he explores how the power of the Mississippi helped Minneapolis become a great industrial centre

From Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, Michael Portillo visits Coleford in the Forest of Dean, Slimbridge in Gloucestershire, and Bristol Temple Meads

Michael Portillo explores the Britain of his youth, starting at Preston's Fulwood Barracks and heading to Bury Bolton Street Station in Greater Manchester

The adventurer visits some of the world's most famous waterways and investigates how they have shaped the lives of the people living along them, beginning with the Nile

There is a triple collection of desirable cars in store for Derek when an MG Midget, an Austin-Healey 'frogeye' Sprite and an RS2000 come up for auction

A rusty 1970 Fiat 500 goes under the hammer - Derek reckons it's the kind of vehicle that is so iconic that it has to be saved

Exploring ship graveyards, including Scapa Flow in Orkney, where German warships were scuttled after the First World War, and Mallows Bay, home to 200 wrecks colonised by wildlife

Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway explore the disused Jubilee Line areas of Charing Cross station, now more famous as a film location

Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway discover the hidden world of the Waterloo and City Line, the only line entirely underground

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