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Michael Portillo explores the east of England in the inter-war period, with the first leg of his journey beginning in Canterbury and ending at Alexandra Palace in north London

Michael Portillo explores the east of England en route to Lincolnshire, discovering how the Crossrail project is helping to conserve birds and taking a gelato cart to Southend

Michael Portillo's railway journey from Canterbury to Skegness reaches Witham in Essex, where he visits the factory of the world's oldest supplier of metal-framed windows

Michael Portillo's journey through eastern England takes him to the Snape Maltings music and arts venue, the Norfolk seaside resort of Great Yarmouth and the city of Norwich

How Europe's most advanced power station became a film set. Plus, the structures made by scientific pioneer Nikola Tesla in his quest to provide the US with free electricity

The stories behind closed roads, including a route once used by the French Resistance and areas made impassable by crumbling hills and sand dunes

The battle for North Africa, which involved three years of fighting between Rommel's Afrika Korps and Montgomery's Desert Rats. Narrated by Laurence Olivier

Betrayed, Stalin fights the German army in the Soviet states. The German occupation policies lead to the first extermination policies of 'undesirables'

Michael Portillo encounters medieval knights in Tallinn, grills sausages in Helsinki and samples cloudberry liqueur in a hot tub while travelling in Latvia, Finland and Estonia

Fiona Bruce and the team head to the Royal Hall in Harrogate, with Alastair Dickenson giving his highest valuation in 20 years on the show

Dave finds two rare Fiats and a VW Corrado. Derek has his work cut out trying to remove an old Morris that appears to be supporting the garage roof. What could possibly go wrong?

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

How the myth of German invincibility was finally debunked by their defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad. Narrated by Laurence Olivier

As Hitler's troops advance, occupants in Ukraine, Belarus and Poland take the brunt of the occupying forces cruelty; and the first concentration camps are created

Fiona Bruce and the team head to the Royal Hall in Harrogate, with Alastair Dickenson giving his highest valuation in 20 years on the show

Michael Portillo sets off from Tynemouth on the first leg of a trip to Berwick, hearing about a 19th-century tragedy that inspired 140 local men to set up a coastal rescue service

Michael Portillo heads from Newcastle to Lynemouth, and is intrigued to hear of its part in Newcastle's early industrial development

The motorcycle racer and lorry mechanic attempts, with the aid of slipstreaming, to break the British record for outright speed on a bicycle - 110mph

It's the pursuit of cute as the team re-commission a 1991 Nissan Figaro

Derek heads off to collect some vintage motorcycles from a garage at the bottom of the garden in the North-East of England

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

Michael Portillo uses his 1913 copy of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide to explore Poland, visiting Warsaw, Lodz, Poznan, Wroclaw and Krakow along the way

Michael Portillo explores the east of England in the inter-war period, with the first leg of his journey beginning in Canterbury and ending at Alexandra Palace in north London

Michael Portillo explores the east of England en route to Lincolnshire, discovering how the Crossrail project is helping to conserve birds and taking a gelato cart to Southend

Michael Portillo's railway journey from Canterbury to Skegness reaches Witham in Essex, where he visits the factory of the world's oldest supplier of metal-framed windows

Michael Portillo's journey through eastern England takes him to the Snape Maltings music and arts venue, the Norfolk seaside resort of Great Yarmouth and the city of Norwich

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home