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Michael Portillo resumes his tour of the Home Counties in the historic town of Guildford. Eventually he crosses into Hampshire to reach Aldershot.

Michael Portillo heads for Farnborough, Hampshire, famous today for its airshow and home to what was then the Royal Aircraft Establishment.

Michael Portillo explores East Anglia between the wars, beginning at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, where archaeologists discovered a 27-metre-long Anglo-Saxon ship in 1939.

Michael Portillo continues through East Anglia, where he discovers the Essex origins of the BBC and joins the Women's Land Army to pick damsons at Tiptree.

Exploring a bizarre block in Taiwan resembling a giant speaker, a pioneering venture in Alaska, and an alpine village that masks a military beast.

Exploring an ominous tower in the forests of Croatia, a New York City complex that broke the mould, and a grand facility guarding the London riverbanks.

Hear how Leon Degrelle and a motley crew of Finns, Estonians and Belgians held off the three million-strong Russian army, enabling 56,000 men to escape.

Reigate Fort was repurposed to block the Nazi's from getting to London and was set to become Resistance HQ should the capital have fallen.

The intrepid 'ancient mariners' go on one last far-flung voyage to southeast Asia, travelling the waterways of Vietnam from Halong Bay to Ninh Binh, Hoa Lu and Hanoi.

Fiona Bruce visits Belton House in Lincolnshire, where finds include Chairman Mao memorabilia and a funeral standard reportedly snatched from Oliver Cromwell's coffin.

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

The team opt to buy one of the most affordable sports cars on the road - the Mazda MX-5.

The fate of the island of Malta hung by a thread during the war. Using drones, experts explore the defences of Malta to understand how the island survived.

With the blitz taking its toll, Britain had to keep it's manufacturing going. Shadow factories were born and were crucial in the production of ammunition.

Fiona Bruce visits Belton House in Lincolnshire, where finds include Chairman Mao memorabilia and a funeral standard reportedly snatched from Oliver Cromwell's coffin.

The motorbike racer and mechanic sets out to break the record for the world's fastest gravity-powered sled at the Pista Riberal speed ski slope in the Pyrenees.

A super-rare Renault Clio Williams 2 in F1 blue with contrasting gold alloys has turned Dave Mathewson an interesting shade of green.

Dave collects a Ford Fiesta XR2i that's not moved from a garage for twenty-one years and Derek picks up a 1956 Siva Tourer, made famous in Doctor Who.

The team fly the flag for King and country with one of their most luxurious purchases to date - a 1981 Rolls Royce Silver Spirit.