U&Yesterday +1 Friday

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home

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

Michael Portillo is in Greater Manchester, hearing about the birth of the NHS, the first episode of Coronation Street and the Baby, the first electronic stored-program computer

Michael Portillo visits Oldham's Victorian theatre, attends a knife-making workshop in Sheffield and spends a few hours at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield

In Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Michael Portillo visits the National Coal Mining Museum for England at Caphouse Colliery, and in Leeds, he heads for the Chapeltown area

Derek, with help from the Mathewson clan, drags a mini pickup out of the barn where it's been for 20 years, and a 350cc Douglas Mark V motorbike from 1950 goes under the hammer

Four VW camper vans pitch up at the auction house looking for a new home and Derek picks up an Austin 16 that 'goes like stink and has some unusual modern modifications'

A small island fortress off the coast of France becomes the stage for a harrowing act of Nazi defiance

The story of how Winston Churchill tried to save France and destroy Hitler by destroying Britain and creating the 'Franco-British Union' - a plan that was to crash and burn

Fiona Bruce presents from Hertford College, Oxford, where items valued include a bracelet once worn by a princess and a rare document recording the end of the First World War

Fiona Bruce and the team head to the Tamar Valley in Devon, and weigh anchor at Morwellham Quay

Derek navigates the dry stone walls of the Peak District to collect a very original 1988 Opel Manta. Plus, Dave deals with a Ford Granada rally support vehicle

Derek has a three-hour drive in a 1960s bus that arrived in the UK after a life in the sun. Dave takes a Triumph TR7 convertible to auction

A small island fortress off the coast of France becomes the stage for a harrowing act of Nazi defiance

The story of how Winston Churchill tried to save France and destroy Hitler by destroying Britain and creating the 'Franco-British Union' - a plan that was to crash and burn

Fiona Bruce presents from Hertford College, Oxford, where items valued include a bracelet once worn by a princess and a rare document recording the end of the First World War

Simon Reeve visits South America, where he learns how the Galapagos Islands are under threat from tourists and meets remote indigenous tribes in Brazil

The Meldrews, Mrs Warboys and Nick Swainey spend a day boating, but get marooned - so Victor sets out alone to fetch help and discovers a disturbing secret at an old people's home

When the Meldrews return from a dreary holiday, Victor promptly resumes his perpetual moaning about everything, while Margaret considers embarking on an affair

Victor is told to stay at home while waiting to be called for jury service - and begins to feel as if he is the one on trial. Richard Wilson stars

Derek navigates the dry stone walls of the Peak District to collect a very original 1988 Opel Manta. Plus, Dave deals with a Ford Granada rally support vehicle

Derek, with help from the Mathewson clan, drags a mini pickup out of the barn where it's been for 20 years, and a 350cc Douglas Mark V motorbike from 1950 goes under the hammer

Four VW camper vans pitch up at the auction house looking for a new home and Derek picks up an Austin 16 that 'goes like stink and has some unusual modern modifications'

Exploring Old Joliet Prison, a battered facility near Chicago that descended into open war, but then hosted the Blues Brothers!

Simon Reeve visits South America, where he learns how the Galapagos Islands are under threat from tourists and meets remote indigenous tribes in Brazil

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home