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Michael Portillo explores the wild and rugged coastline of Northumberland by rail, beginning in Morpeth, where he finds an historic collection of Northumbrian bagpipes

Michael Portillo travels the length of the Northumbrian coastline, and visits the mighty Bamburgh Castle

Michael Portillo's rail trek along the coast of Northumberland continues towards the Farne Islands, and finishes in England's northernmost town, Berwick-upon-Tweed

Michael Portillo sets off on the first leg of a trip from the Firth of Clyde to Lewis and Harris, beginning with a visit to a nuclear power station on the Hunterston Peninsula

Paul hits the road to collect an old navy ambulance that served its time as a holiday camper

Dave travels to Bedale to extract a barn find - a 1984 Manta GTE which hasn't seen the light of day in thirty years

The longest retreat in British military history, when Allied troops defending Burma in 1942 were confronted by the Japanese

The Luftwaffe's bombing raids on Britain's provincial cities, when Coventry and Plymouth were hardest hit. Narrated by Laurence Olivier

How the morale of the Third Reich was shattered by the devastating defeat at Stalingrad and relentless Allied bombing

Derek takes a shine to a rare 1958 Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire with a long family history and a convertible Triumph Herald brings a few smiles on auction day

An Aston Martin DB6 in need of total restoration looks set to break the Mathewsons auction record and news of a rare Vincent motorbike arriving causes a stir

Animals that live in jungles, including creatures that glow in the dark which have never been captured on film before, as well as freshwater dolphins and the largest living lemur

Animals that live in deserts, including swarms of locusts, desert lions hunting giraffes, sand grouse flying to gather water, and a tiny bat defending itself against a scorpion

Wildlife that inhabit the world's grasslands, exploring how animals adapt to survive in areas that endure some of the most dramatic seasonal changes seen in the world

Holly recovers an unidentified pod floating in space and Rimmer becomes convinced it is of alien origin, while Lister discovers he is a god to Cat's people

Lister comes down with a mutated strain of pneumonia that makes his feverish hallucinations come to life, and some of them turn out to be very tricky customers indeed

Lister and the Cat are horrified when Rimmer duplicates himself, but when the identically petty pair move in together they find out they are not very well matched

Car enthusiasts Gus and Will want to buy a VW Beetle. They locate a guy selling a project car, but fear it's almost too good to be true at less than £1,000

Derek goes to pick up a veteran 1904 Swift, there's an emotional farewell to a 1980s Bedford HA van, and a Toyota Corona finds a new home

Derek gets a tour of Hadlow Castle in Kent when he arrives to collect the owner's pre-war Alvis and an immaculate Citroen used by the Gestapo in occupied France

Derek is picking up two expertly crafted batmobile replicas in the home counties and Dave can't control his enthusiasm for a Ford US wartime jeep

Paul hits the road to collect an old navy ambulance that served its time as a holiday camper

Dave travels to Bedale to extract a barn find - a 1984 Manta GTE which hasn't seen the light of day in thirty years

Wildlife that inhabit the world's grasslands, exploring how animals adapt to survive in areas that endure some of the most dramatic seasonal changes seen in the world

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