Yesterday Wednesday

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home

Michael Portillo travels from East Grinstead to Guildford, with his trip including a visit to Leith Hill Place to explore the compositions of Ralph Vaughan Williams

Michael Portillo travels from Woking to Walton-on-Thames, uncovering the story of Britain's first purpose-built crematorium and visiting Brooklands along the way

Michael Portillo's final leg begins in Egham, Surrey, where he visits a steam fair before making his way to Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire for a spot of rowing

Liz McIvor tells the story of the canal builders who struggled with the rugged terrain of the Pennines, considering the strategic considerations of this massive engineering project

Exploring Yongma Land - a South Korean dreamland given a second life from the most unlikely of places

Exploring Old Joliet Prison, a battered facility near Chicago that descended into open war, but then hosted the Blues Brothers!

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

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

A return visit to the National Botanic Garden of Wales in Carmarthenshire, with James Bond memorabilia making an appearance alongside a miniature steam engine and a religious ring

An 1967 Aston Martin DB6 lands at the Mathewsons - Derek believes it could break the record for the most expensive car ever sold at the auction

A collection of Austin Mini Metros arrive for auction. Also going under the hammer is a baby Fiat 850 coupe and a haulier offloads part of his vintage commercial vehicle collection

The incredible story of the arms race to create America's nuclear arms factories

The blackouts that plunged Britain into darkness, and the destruction wreaked in Europe by the Nazis. Narrated by Laurence Olivier

A return visit to the National Botanic Garden of Wales in Carmarthenshire, with James Bond memorabilia making an appearance alongside a miniature steam engine and a religious ring

Dom Chinea helps artist Jack and potter Jeanet make their passions into money-making businesses, with the former hoping to swap teaching for creating before it is too late

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

In Wiltshire Henry and Simon meet Laura who lives in a collection of farm buildings. Henry takes a hay cart and Simon falls in love with some glass collecting jars

An 1967 Aston Martin DB6 lands at the Mathewsons - Derek believes it could break the record for the most expensive car ever sold at the auction

Exploring Yongma Land - a South Korean dreamland given a second life from the most unlikely of places

Michael Portillo travels from Reno, Nevada to California's Napa County, taking to the skies over the Sierra Nevada mountain range and trying his hand at cowboy dressage

Tim Dunn heads to Bishopstone in Sussex, a seaside station with a difference - it's also a fortress designed to defend the nation from German attack during the Second World War

Tim Dunn explores London's first passenger railway - the London and Greenwich Railway, on the longest railway viaduct in Britain today

A chance to buy goods from the comfort of home

Liz McIvor discovers how carving up the landscape in order to build canals helped man's understanding of the earth below

Liz McIvor recounts the story of 'canal mania' - a boom period of frenzied activity that helped develop Britain's modern financial economy, now centred in London