Yesterday +1 Tuesday

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Michael Portillo travels from Redditch to Gloucester, beginning with a look back to Victorian times at a needle manufactory

Michael Portillo travels from Bristol to Glastonbury, entering the smelly world of a Victorian tannery and hearing how a 19th-century entrepreneur turned bird droppings into money

Michael Portillo stands trial at the Bloody Assizes in Somerset, and later gets to grips with a miracle of Victorian engineering on the Somerset Levels

Michael Portillo sets out from Ashford on the first leg of a trip to Henley-on-Thames, lending a hand at a train maintenance plant that is home to High Speed 1 rolling stock

Exploring Old Byron Hot Springs in the Californian desert - a once glittering Hollywood hotspot, converted into a top-secret interrogation centre

Exploring a symbol of national pride that became a symbol of excess in the Turkish capital of Ankara

How Fiat didn't just make cars, but also made trains, planes and, like modern-day kingmakers, they made and broke governments too

The theories, conspiracies and facts relating to Rudolf Hess's dramatic flight to Scotland in 1941 and his subsequent death in Spandau prison

Field Marshal Montgomery's daring airborne plan to end the war by Christmas, which went a bridge too far at Arnhem

Fiona Bruce and the team return to Castle Ward in Co Down, with items including two sculptures made out of ostrich eggs and a watch designed for astronauts to wear on the Moon

A series of head-turning supercharged cars head to the Mathewson's auction room. Plus, going under Derek's hammer - a Ford Escort XR3 and a beautiful MGA

Derek heads out to pick up a pair of beautiful Swedish models - a Saab 96L and a Volvo P1800ES. Plus, a rare British AC Aceca comes up for sale

While America had Ford, Chrysler and Buick, Hitler also wanted a car that would transform his nation - the 'people's car', or Volkswagen

Chronicle of the Second World War, beginning with an account of Hitler's ascent to power at a time when the Germans were humiliated by military defeat and economic depression

Fiona Bruce and the team return to Castle Ward in Co Down, with items including two sculptures made out of ostrich eggs and a watch designed for astronauts to wear on the Moon

Dom Chinea gives glass-blower Mark from north Wales and potter Victor from London the opportunity to turn their hobbies into money-making businesses

Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway explore the unusual station at Old Street, which serves both the Northern line and mainline trains

Derek is off to Bridlington to pick-up a trio of classics: a Morris 8 tourer, a Mini Van and a 1940s Morris LC3 truck

A series of head-turning supercharged cars head to the Mathewson's auction room. Plus, going under Derek's hammer - a Ford Escort XR3 and a beautiful MGA

Exploring Old Byron Hot Springs in the Californian desert - a once glittering Hollywood hotspot, converted into a top-secret interrogation centre

Michael Portillo gets a taste of the early life of President Lincoln, learns about Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, and joins Elvis fans at Graceland

Tim Dunn heads underground at the magnificent Victorian Bramhope Tunnel in West Yorkshire, one of the longest tunnels in Britain when it was built

Tim Dunn visits the popular Victorian holiday resort Saltburn-by-the-Sea, exploring the North Yorkshire town that owes its very existence to the railways

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home