U and YESTERDAY

Fiona Bruce looks back at favourite finds from the past 40 years of the programme, while a selection of experts reveal what happened next to some memorable items.

Exploring a desert island with an infected past adrift from the US mainland, the brutalist palace of a mad Bulgarian dictator, and a doomed top-secret Nazi project.

Exploring Italian ruins immortalised by Hollywood, a crumbling Chilean city with two lives and a brutalist Scottish relic whose prayers went unanswered.

April 1945, Berlin - the last savage chapter in the Battle for Europe. Stalin's generals compete to avenge the Nazis assault in the East and raise the Red Flag over the Reichstag.

From scientists to SS commanders - the stories of the Nazi war criminals and how they were tracked down. Here, Hitler's personal secretary Martin Bormann.

Billy hears the story of the opioid crisis, visits the backroom of the designer who dressed Elvis and the Beatles, and visits the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.

The programme embarks on its 40th anniversary tour by paying a visit to the stately home of Castle Howard, near York. Presented by Fiona Bruce.

Mathewsons agree to sell a vintage threshing machine and collection of tractors, but extracting them from a Yorkshire farm proves a bigger job than anticipated.

A Cold War Soviet classic goes under the hammer. Built like a tank, the Mosckovitch gets few admirers for style, but finds a home with a fan of Eastern Bloc classics.

Guided missiles, the Wasserfall, and the war-changing V2 were dreamed up and tested in Peenemunde, a German seaside city suddenly overtaken by Nazi elite.

SAS Style: Witness the efforts of the SAS War Crimes Investigation Team as they attempt to track down several Gestapo officers, wanted for a host of despicable atrocities.

The programme embarks on its 40th anniversary tour by paying a visit to the stately home of Castle Howard, near York. Presented by Fiona Bruce.

During a cold snap Robbie Cumming gets iced in on the Grand Union Canal. Later, his parents pay a visit and help him through Marsworth Locks.

Simon Reeve journeys through the remote northeast of South America from the spectacular Mount Roraima in Venezuela through Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.

Archaeologist Ben Robinson uncovers evidence of the German occupation of the Jersey village of Gorey and the role it played in defending the UK.

Ben Robinson discovers how the Cornish village of Botallack was the centre of the Cornish tin and copper mining industry and supplied a deadly poison to the world.

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

Exploring a desert island with an infected past adrift from the US mainland, the brutalist palace of a mad Bulgarian dictator, and a doomed top-secret Nazi project.