Yesterday Saturday

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Liz McIvor examines the Manchester Ship Canal. Hailed as the greatest engineering feat of the Victorian age, it was built by navvies widely regarded as troublesome outsiders

Liz McIvor tells the story of the people who operated the canal boats, who during the Victorian era gained reputations for criminality, violence and drinking

How Birmingham led the way in urban regeneration, turning canals and their immediate surroundings from places to be avoided to places to be enjoyed

As the Channel Tunnel's 25th anniversary collides with Brexit, meet the teams behind the scenes and beneath the seabed who keep everything on track

Michael Portillo travels around the British Isles by train to learning about the challenges the coastal regions face, beginning at Siccar Point in Berwickshire

Michael Portillo continues his Scottish coastal journey along the Firth of Forth at the railway engineering icon for which it is famous throughout the world, the Forth Bridge

Michael Portillo begins this leg of his Scottish railway journey from Dunbar to Peterhead in the beautiful medieval city of Stirling

Michael Portillo visits Leuchars, known nowadays on the railways as Leuchars for St Andrews, which is Scotland's oldest university and is located on a beautiful beachfront

Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway meet at Gloucester Road in London's museum quarter - a station serving the Circle, District and Piccadilly lines

In Wincanton, Henry and Simon meet retired blacksmith Gyles with a pile of stuff needing a new home. Simon chooses bellows and Henry restores an airline food trolley

Simon and Henry head to Worcestershire and meet TV props dealer Craig. Henry chooses a vintage ice cream van whilst Simon spots a grandfather clock with no clock

Henry and Simon visit Jim's vast barn in Leicestershire. Henry takes a risk on an old Ford Prefect, while Simon opts to upcycle three chicken feeders

The adventurer explores the impact of humans on the Lake District, discovering the high number of visitors to Scafell Pike is damaging the mountain and stretching rescue resources

The adventurer explores the wild and rugged coast of Cumbria and learns how central the county is to many of the challenges facing Britain

Robbie Cumming journeys through Royal Leamington Spa and the historic town of Warwick with its medieval castle.

Robbie Cumming sets out to explore the meandering waterways of inner city Birmingham including the Soho Loop and the Engine Arm Canal

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

Michael Portillo's Scottish railway journey reaches Aberdeen, from where he heads out to Forvie National Nature Reserve, which is 1,000 hectares of protected coastal habitat

Michael Portillo crosses the Culloden Viaduct aboard the Caledonian Sleeper to arrive bright and early in Inverness, from where he heads north to the Orkney archipelago

Michael Portillo travels by train north from Inverness to the Orkney Islands. Beginning on the Moray Firth, Michael admires the Cullen Viaduct then enjoys a bowl of Cullen skink

Michael Portillo's Scottish coastal railway journey reaches Invergordon on the Cromarty Firth, the third great inlet on the northeast coast of the Highlands

Jay and his workshop make furniture for a veteran who set up a charity to help other ex-forces members and a couple who have fostered 130 children

The Meldrew household is gripped by the lure of the limelight as Margaret joins the local amateur dramatic society and Victor begins penning a sitcom script. Richard Wilson stars

A persistent door-to-door salesman makes Victor see red - and an unending stream of junk mail threatens to push him over the brink into insanity

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

Liz McIvor examines the Manchester Ship Canal. Hailed as the greatest engineering feat of the Victorian age, it was built by navvies widely regarded as troublesome outsiders

Liz McIvor tells the story of the people who operated the canal boats, who during the Victorian era gained reputations for criminality, violence and drinking

How Birmingham led the way in urban regeneration, turning canals and their immediate surroundings from places to be avoided to places to be enjoyed

As the Channel Tunnel's 25th anniversary collides with Brexit, meet the teams behind the scenes and beneath the seabed who keep everything on track

Michael Portillo's Scottish railway journey reaches Aberdeen, from where he heads out to Forvie National Nature Reserve, which is 1,000 hectares of protected coastal habitat

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With up to 400 trains a day on its 62 miles of track, the channel tunnel is the busiest railway system in the world - and doing things at the double is key to its success

With the 25th anniversary well under way, there is some extreme painting going on at both ends of the tunnel - two murals that will link to each other across the sea