Yesterday Thursday

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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

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

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

Exploring Chateau Aubéry on the island of Martinique, where a criminal kingpin wiped out the opposition

Exploring Castel Volturno in Campana in Italy, Colorado and HMP Shepton Mallet in Somerset

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

The Allies entered Germany and ran into the imposing Siegfried Line defences. American troops fought to a gruelling, bloody standstill in the Huertgen Forest, at a terrible cost

Fiona Bruce presents an edition commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, featuring stories from across the UK and an event at Biggin Hill Airfield

There's an unlikely arrival at the North Yorkshire car auction - an Argentinian Army Mercedes G wagon that saw action in the Falklands War

Derek has three scooters to collect, while also finding room for a Daimler and a teardrop caravan

Japan would create arguably the greatest fighter in the Second World War - the Mitsubishi Zero, but their failed War Factories would ultimately reduce the Zero to a kamikaze plane

The French army's capitulation to Nazi forces in 1940, a defeat marked by a series of military and strategic mistakes

Fiona Bruce presents an edition commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, featuring stories from across the UK and an event at Biggin Hill Airfield

Nyanda makes incredible jewellery, but needs some marketing support. Hobbyist textile weaver Jessica seeks a professional plan to help her make money from her work

Derek heads off to Blackpool to pick up a couple of unusual vehicles - a red 1970 Opel GT and a 1956 Ford Hot Rod pickup

Norman has dreamt of owning a Volvo 850R since watching Volvo British touring cars race, but fixers Sheldon and Peter could struggle to bring Norman's dream to life

There's an unlikely arrival at the North Yorkshire car auction - an Argentinian Army Mercedes G wagon that saw action in the Falklands War

Exploring Chateau Aubéry on the island of Martinique, where a criminal kingpin wiped out the opposition

Michael Portillo's journey through California takes him to San Francisco, where he travels through the city's streets by cable car, before heading across the bay to Sausalito

Tim Dunn takes a trip through the history of the North Staffordshire Railway Company, admiring the beautiful Stoke Station

Tim Dunn heads to the seaside to find out how the railways changed the fortunes of Margate and Ramsgate, and finds out more about 19th-century Dom Luiz Bridge in Porto

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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