U&Yesterday Wednesday

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home

With chronic fatigue syndrome, autism and ADHD Dea is hoping her willow weaving can help her build a home business. For Gemma it's all about proving a careers advisor wrong

A textile designer from Fife who insists on using sustainable fabrics and a Devon glassblower picking up her craft after an eight-year break try to turn a profit from their skills

Exploring a series of vaults, hidden from view in Edinburgh, Scotland that tell a murky story of opportunity, crime and destitution

Exploring the remains of an ingenious sky-high solution to a ground-based problem, Chiatura, once know as the Venice of the air

As the Allies' advances stall, the Canadians seize Hitler's island fortress to open up the vital port of Antwerp and keep the war moving

The murder in 1943 of businessman Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas, where the Duke of Windsor was governor at the time, and implicated in influencing the outcome of his murder trial

Michael Portillo travels through Scandinavia, crossing the bridge linking Denmark to Sweden to retrace the journey of a train that carried a revolutionary Russian passenger

The team visits the Plas Newydd country estate on Anglesey, where items brought in include a Victorian cane, an 18th century grandmother clock, and two giant toy giraffes

Dave gets a nasty surprise when he opens the bonnet of a fast Ford from the 80s, and an Austin Heavy 12 nearly a century old sets off a bidding war at the auction

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

The Allies entered Germany and ran into the imposing Siegfried Line defences. American troops fought to a gruelling, bloody standstill in the Huertgen Forest, at a terrible cost

The German police's attempts to catch a depraved and psychotic killer, who struck fear into women travelling on Berlin's S-Bahn train network during the Second World War

The team visits the Plas Newydd country estate on Anglesey, where items brought in include a Victorian cane, an 18th century grandmother clock, and two giant toy giraffes

Part one of two. Guy Martin explores Colombia's violent underworld, undergoing the same kidnap training that politicians go through and visiting a bullet-proof clothing factory

Robbie Cumming explores the Victorian village of Saltaire on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and searches for an abandoned waterway on the Aire and Calder

On the last leg of his epic journey across the north of England, narrowboater Robbie Cumming tackles the fast-flowing River Ouse while heading to Ripon

Timothy West and Prunella Scales set forth from Gothenburg on the first half of the Gota Canal, one of the longest and most beautiful waterways in the world

Three MGs from the 70s turn up at the garage, still covered in original factory wax. Nobody can believe it, or value them. A Morris 1000 turns up at the auction along with a TR7 V8

Exploring Oradour-sur-Glane, a French town drenched in infamy. Also, Alcatraz, a facility famed for breakouts but also subjected to a daring break-in

Michael Portillo travels by train through Austria and the Czech Republic, beginning in the northern Austrian city of Linz, where Adolf Hitler lived as a young boy

With chronic fatigue syndrome, autism and ADHD Dea is hoping her willow weaving can help her build a home business. For Gemma it's all about proving a careers advisor wrong

A textile designer from Fife who insists on using sustainable fabrics and a Devon glassblower picking up her craft after an eight-year break try to turn a profit from their skills

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home