U&Yesterday Sunday

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Michael Portillo is in the North Yorkshire seaside resort of Scarborough to explore one of the greatest royal fortresses in England

Michael Portillo travels from the seaside resort of Hornsea, famous for its distinctive pottery, to Spurn Point, where he learns about a life-saving 19th-century invention

Michael Portillo has reached Lincolnshire, where his coastal railway journey from Middlesbrough ends. In Grimsby Town, he investigates a new stage in the town's history

Michael Portillo heads to Northern Ireland's spectacular Causeway coast to begin a new journey, which takes him along the north and east coasts through Ulster and Leinster

Account of Operation Barbarossa, Germany's plan to invade the Soviet Union in 1941, revealing the massive human and financial cost endured by the Soviet people

Bomber Command is unable to hit its targets precisely and attacks German cities under cover of darkness, while the Blitz in Britain brings public demand for revenge strikes

Churchill's plan to attack Germany through Italy. Although considered the simplest military solution, the Allies were to face formidable opposition

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

Laurence Olivier narrates the story of the D-Day landings in June 1944, when the biggest ever amphibious invasion was launched on the beaches of Normandy

The Nazi occupation of Holland, which began relatively peacefully with Dutch civil servants continuing to run the country, but eventually resulted in thousands of deaths

The liberation of Paris in 1944, which many felt signalled the beginning of the end of the Second World War. Narrated by Laurence Olivier

The fragile marine ecosystem of the coral reef, where all creatures - including the corals themselves - have to fight for survival. Narrated by David Attenborough

The ways in which marine creatures exploit tides, revealing how giant stingrays rest on currents and South African sea snails surf the waves in pursuit of a meal

How species inhabiting the ocean's edge deal with the dangers of an ever-shifting environment, including green turtles making their annual egg-laying expedition

Marine life around the world, from dolphins and tusk fish in a tropical coral reef to walruses struggling to cope with the impact of climate change on the polar north

Creatures that live in volcanic hot spots on the ocean bed, areas that reach temperatures hot enough to melt lead and which may hold the secrets behind all life on Earth

Dave Mathewson gets wind of a possible free lunch at the officers' mess when he heads off to collect a stylish Swedish Volvo P1800S from an RAF base in the Midlands

Derek Mathewson has sold everything from trucks to bicycles - but he can't remember the last time he auctioned off a two-seater plane

An impressive collection of five iconic cars arrives at Thornton le Dale, including a 1967 Crayford Corsair and a 1966 Ford Zodiac which emerge from a garage in Selby

Nothing screams 1970s more than a Mk3 Ford Cortina 2000E. Derek Mathewson heads to Brigg to value a 1974 example with classic Coke bottle styling and a sweet Pinto engine

Dave goes to Wales to bag a Sierra Cosworth, a sought-after car in the bidding market. Dad Derek gets his hands on a more sedate 1926 Standard Tourer - a quirky little motor

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