U and YESTERDAY

Michael Portillo travels from the chateaux of the Loire Valley to the heart of the Champagne region at Reims.

Gus and Will want to buy an MGB roadster but the cheaper GT version is the one they find. It's got a few rust patches, and back in the workshop they realise beauty is skin deep.

Will and Gus want to buy a BMW, and Will says he likes the 'feminine' Z3. There's a trade-in up the road which might fit the bill, but it's a high price.

Gus and Will go for the once-maligned Austin Maestro. The car they want to buy has already been sold but the seller has another - his own - on the driveway. Can they do a deal.

Joanna Lumley begins her journey along the ancient trade route, travelling thousands of miles across eight countries, beginning in Venice, Italy.

Joanna Lumley follows the Silk Road from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea, travelling across the post-Soviet states of Georgia and Azerbaijan.

Robbie Cumming explores the picturesque Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

It's Robbie's toughest trip yet as he battles through water weed on the Bradley Arm and gets stuck in silt on the Ridgacre Branch.

Robbie Cumming encounters a leaky lock pound on the Perry Barr Flight and gets marooned in the mud before travelling under Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham.

Simon Reeve embarks on the first leg of an extraordinary four-part journey around the Mediterranean, travelling from Malta across the sea to southern Italy and on to Albania.

Setting off from a snowy mountain ski resort in Cyprus, Simon Reeve finds an island and a capital city still deeply divided between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots.

Simon Reeve embarks on the third leg of his four-part journey around the Mediterranean, travelling through Libya, Tunisia and across the sea to Sicily.

Big Irv has had a life-long love affair with VWs, so he's extremely surprised when he's offered the chance to work on a very early 1949 Beetle.

Derek's in Bromsgrove on the trail of a rare mark 2 Aston Martin DB6. Plus, Jack and Charlie collect an even rarer Toyota Celica Supra in Cheshire.

The team buy one of Derek's favourite Austin commercials and convert it to electric, and also snap up a super-rare 50's American beach bike.

Up for sale at the Mathewson's auction is a 1275 Mini GT that's come from just down the road and could be a future British icon.

Derek goes to pick up a veteran 1904 Swift, there's an emotional farewell to a 1980s Bedford HA van, and a Toyota Corona finds a new home.