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On the west coast of Cornwall, Henry and Sam search through 50 years of accumulated vintage vehicles, finding the first ever Lotus Elan and a pre-war Sunbeam

Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove head to Oxfordshire, where Henry likes a tractor in blue and Sam falls for a Midget racer in a hedge

In Somerset, Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove discover Norton motorbikes, Italian mopeds and French go-karts

Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove move on to Hertfordshire, where they find vintage cars, obscure tractors and rare British bikes from the 1950s

Henry Cole and motorcycle restorer Sam Lovegrove visit the Cotswolds, where they discover sheds full of stationary engines and obscure agricultural implement

Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove uncover vintage treasures in West Sussex, going behind the scenes at one of Britain's most famous bike shops

A fancy fairground waltzer, an ancient coffee machine and a huge oak table are restored in the workshops of some of the UK's most celebrated crafts people

The artisan restorers revamp a fragile standing mirror needing some love, a classic armchair and a large railway station clock. Rebecca Pritchard examines their origins

Artisan restorers Alex Webster, Craig Hughes and Carl Bouverie-Brine work on renovating a fold-out mirror, a classic armchair and a large railway clock

In a quiet south London suburb, Drew Pritchard comes face to face with the most extraordinary collection of American automobilia he's ever seen

A hunt for fresh stock takes Drew Pritchard to the Cotswolds, where he finds a giant stash of Indian and Afghan treasures which have come directly from the subcontinent

Drew Pritchard heads to a huge antiques wholesaler in Exeter, where he finds pile upon pile of affordable gems. Next, it's on to north London, to visit an emporium of curiosities

On the west coast of Cornwall, Henry and Sam search through 50 years of accumulated vintage vehicles, finding the first ever Lotus Elan and a pre-war Sunbeam

Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove head to Oxfordshire, where Henry likes a tractor in blue and Sam falls for a Midget racer in a hedge

In Somerset, Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove discover Norton motorbikes, Italian mopeds and French go-karts

Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove move on to Hertfordshire, where they find vintage cars, obscure tractors and rare British bikes from the 1950s

Henry Cole and motorcycle restorer Sam Lovegrove visit the Cotswolds, where they discover sheds full of stationary engines and obscure agricultural implement

Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove uncover vintage treasures in West Sussex, going behind the scenes at one of Britain's most famous bike shops

Egyptologist Zahi Hawass examines the pharaoh warrior dynasty and tries to determine the fate of Rameses I with the help of carbon dating and medical imaging

Explorers reveal evidence of Nazi activities in East Africa during the Second World War and uncover German shipwrecks that may have been laden with gold

Bruce Crompton acquires an extremely rare - and valuable - German Panther tank - and its original undercoat is more pink than camouflage. However, getting parts is a struggle

At Biggin Hill, south-east London, military equipment collector Bruce Crompton views a collector's haul of Second World War Spitfires

Simon O'Brien repurposes an old butcher's block into a coffee table, while Henry Cole restores a pair of go-karts to race against restorer Guy

Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien visit a Yorkshire textile mill, where Simon repurposes a mill trolley into a coffee table and Henry struggles to repair a Soviet-era motorbike

Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien head to Nantwich and Stoke-on-Trent, where Henry comes across a 1960s moped, and Simon restores an early Mirror dinghy

On the Wirral, Simon O'Brien has a crazy plan to turn a chunky chain into a standard lamp, while Henry Cole restores a 1963 Ford Anglia

Simon O'Brien and Henry Cole head to Surrey and Hampshire, where Simon builds a huge kitchen table from discarded rafters and Henry hankers after an American tractor

Drew Pritchard bargains hard in Frome, Somerset, then in Dumfriesshire visits an estate that has been in the same family for several generations and is full of fascinating antiques

At a 13th-century manor house in Yorkshire, Drew Pritchard uncovers a wartime flag with a medical history. He also visits a neo-gothic cathedral in Edinburgh

Buying goods from home

Buying goods from home