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Chris travels from the west of Morocco to the east, heading into the desert on a mission to find out whether a railway line once crossed the Sahara all the way to Timbuktu in Mali

Chris sets out on a mission to cross Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania entirely by rail in just one week, uncovering stories and dark secrets from the Baltic states' Soviet-era past

A village ruin that is now pitted and scarred, a ghostly fleet of ships, a bridge to nowhere hidden in a forest and strange metal structures in a wood

An eerie, empty country village which hides a sad secret, a mysterious tower battered by the elements and a disused railway deep beneath the streets of a city

How Japan's early victories over Allied forces during the Second World War convinced its people that their strength and discipline would bring them victory

The Spanish island of Villa Winter, which was suspected of being a port for German U-boats and part of a larger plan to invade the United States

Michael Portillo reaches Bodmin en route to Totnes, as he explores the West Country from St Ives to Salisbury Plain, finding out more about Daphne du Maurier on the way

Michael Portillo arrives in Paignton, south Devon, where the Dartmouth Steam Railway takes him to the home of Agatha Christie, in the company of her great-grandson James Prichard

Fiona Bruce presents the show from Newcastle's Civic Centre, where rare diaries reveal the story of Victorian heroine Grace Darling and her mission to save lives at sea

Paul collects a cherished 1924 Rover 9 that's been in the same family since the 1950s and only had one previous owner before that

Derek heads north to pick up a 1954 Morgan +4 coupe in mint condition and believed to be just one of three still on the road

The Allied offensive in the Pacific, where America's two-pronged attack against a ferocious Japanese defence led to heavy casualties on both sides

One of the largest Nazi bunkers ever constructed, outside the French town of Watten, a missile facility with storage for 108 missiles, a liquid oxygen factory and two launch pads

Fiona Bruce presents the show from Newcastle's Civic Centre, where rare diaries reveal the story of Victorian heroine Grace Darling and her mission to save lives at sea

The team think they can smell profit by choosing one of the simplest cars ever built, the VW Beetle

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Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway explore Earl's Court station where the old and the modern sit side by side

Paul collects a cherished 1924 Rover 9 that's been in the same family since the 1950s and only had one previous owner before that

A village ruin that is now pitted and scarred, a ghostly fleet of ships, a bridge to nowhere hidden in a forest and strange metal structures in a wood

Michael Portillo reaches Bodmin en route to Totnes, as he explores the West Country from St Ives to Salisbury Plain, finding out more about Daphne du Maurier on the way

Michael Portillo arrives in Paignton, south Devon, where the Dartmouth Steam Railway takes him to the home of Agatha Christie, in the company of her great-grandson James Prichard

Chris travels from the west of Morocco to the east, heading into the desert on a mission to find out whether a railway line once crossed the Sahara all the way to Timbuktu in Mali

Chris sets out on a mission to cross Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania entirely by rail in just one week, uncovering stories and dark secrets from the Baltic states' Soviet-era past

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Chris Tarrant explores five countries that were part of Yugoslavia, which had an extensive state-run railway network before its break-up in the 1990s