U&Yesterday Wednesday

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In Musselburgh, Michael Portillo gets a taste of life as a fishwife, before exploring Edinburgh where a popular 19th-century mode of transport is making a comeback

Michael Portillo travels from Blackpool to Manchester, along the way unveiling a monument to 87 railwaymen of the London and North Western Railway who died in the Great War

Michael Portillo's journey from the Irish Sea to the North Sea continues by tram from Manchester, where he investigates the Victorian scientist who invented modern atomic theory

Michael starts his journey in Chapeltown, Sheffield, following what was once known as the North Country Continental service, and finishing in the engineering centre of Doncaster

Concrete channels hidden in a mountaintop forest, a collapsing bridge, a marooned military base and the upright rusting carcass of ship

A towering structure with an explosive past, a deserted cityscape, a mysterious top-secret facility and a vast Nazi construction

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

In January 1944 thousands of Allied troops converge on Monte Cassino. Over the next four months the Monastery is reduced to rubble and the fight claims over 200,000 lives

On a railway journey from the capital Palermo to Europe's largest volcano, Mount Etna, Michael Portillo explores Sicilian life under the dictatorship of Mussolini

Fiona Bruce presents the show from Lyme Park in Cheshire, where items brought in to be valued include pistols and a portrait of actress Sarah Bernhardt

Dave and Jack head to East Yorkshire to pick up a dusty Alfa Romeo and a 1930s Jowett. But Dave's more taken with a Carry On-style, bum-wobbling exercise machine

Derek picks up a lovingly restored 1925 Calthorpe motorbike that he thinks is more of a work of art than anything ever produced by Picasso

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

On January 22nd 1944, two divisions land at the Italian port of Anzio in one of the easiest Allied amphibious assaults of the war

Fiona Bruce presents the show from Lyme Park in Cheshire, where items brought in to be valued include pistols and a portrait of actress Sarah Bernhardt

Michael Portillo crosses the Severn to begin a trip along the south coast of Wales, joining maintenance workers on a hair-raising secret railway high above the estuary

Michael Portillo continues his south Wales coastal railway journey in Barry Island, where he joins a Bristol pilot on his way to help guide a feeder container ship into port

Disaster strikes when the Naughty Lass collides with a low bridge on the Bumble Hole Canal Branch damaging a chimney

Timothy West and Prunella Scales embark on a journey into their pasts via the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2016

Derek is reunited with the vehicle he took his driving test in - a 1957 Ford 100E Estate. Dave is also on the trail for an Escort, this time a 1970s Mk1 twin cam

The programme looks at a mysterious group of rusting ships stranded in an arid desert, and a monstrous defensive line on the snow-covered peaks of the Italian Alps

Michael Portillo experiences first-hand Italy's 'need for speed' in a Maserati sports car, and discovers how the leaning tower of Pisa was rescued from near collapse

In Musselburgh, Michael Portillo gets a taste of life as a fishwife, before exploring Edinburgh where a popular 19th-century mode of transport is making a comeback

Michael Portillo travels from Blackpool to Manchester, along the way unveiling a monument to 87 railwaymen of the London and North Western Railway who died in the Great War

Michael Portillo's journey from the Irish Sea to the North Sea continues by tram from Manchester, where he investigates the Victorian scientist who invented modern atomic theory

Michael starts his journey in Chapeltown, Sheffield, following what was once known as the North Country Continental service, and finishing in the engineering centre of Doncaster

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home