U and YESTERDAY

In Dorset, Michael Portillo visits Brownsea Island, where Robert Baden Powell began the scout movement in the early 20th century.

Michael Portillo embarks on the first leg of a journey from the coalfields of South Wales to the southernmost tip of Cornwall.

Michael Portillo travels from Pontyclun to Ebbw Vale in Wales, visiting the Royal Mint in Llantrisant and Cardiff Arms Park.

Michael Portillo arrives in Newport, where he learns about the heroism of a young boy who was awarded the Albert Medal.

The Mathewson family business starts a new era as Charlie heads off on his first solo collection, to pick up an Austin van from the North York Moors.

Robbie Cumming concludes his journey by travelling from Barton Swing Aqueduct to Liverpool Docks - but experiences engine problems on the way.

Robbie Cumming battles his way through blanket weed on the Shropshire Union Canal and discovers industrial secrets in Audlem in Cheshire.

Robbie gets stuck in the mud in Woodseaves Cutting and explores the charming canal-side village of Kinver in Staffordshire.

Robbie navigates the mighty River Severn and takes an unexpected bath as he takes a tumble at the Tardebigge lock flight in Worcestershire.

Robbie mends a leaky pump on the Naughty Lass on the Grand Union Canal. In Watford, he visits a TV legend's home and buys gas from a friendly fuel boat.

Robbie navigates the wintery Grand Union Canal while preparing for Christmas and narrowly avoids flooding his boat in a tricky staircase lock.

The actor explores Mundoo Island, which has provided a way of life for five generations of one farming family, and also investigates Phillip Island.

Martin heads to the lush and tropical islands of Hawaii for a look beyond its image as a tourist paradise, and into the havoc wreaked by advancing lava fields and smoking craters.

Journalist Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution and asks if the new economic openness could lead to political liberalisation.

The adventurer follows the Nile from the Ethiopian highlands to the Mediterranean Sea, and explains how the river forged some of our earliest civilisations.

Robbie Cumming concludes his journey by travelling from Barton Swing Aqueduct to Liverpool Docks - but experiences engine problems on the way.

Robbie Cumming battles his way through blanket weed on the Shropshire Union Canal and discovers industrial secrets in Audlem in Cheshire.

Robbie gets stuck in the mud in Woodseaves Cutting and explores the charming canal-side village of Kinver in Staffordshire.

Robbie navigates the mighty River Severn and takes an unexpected bath as he takes a tumble at the Tardebigge lock flight in Worcestershire.

Dom tries out water dowsing so he can fill his new pond. He and engineer friend Sam Lovegrove fix some church bells and then put a surf lifesaving club's quad bike back on the beach.

Farcical comedy amongst the French Resistance. Renee has organised a secret wedding with Yvette, but things have a habit of not going quite according to plan.

Wartime sitcom. Time for a final cigarette as Herr Flick and Von Smallhausen prepare to meet their maker in front of a firing squad.

Wartime laughs as Michelle plans to swap an eel containing the Fallen Madonna for a dogfish containing ten million francs. Well you would, wouldn't you.

The Mathewson family business starts a new era as Charlie heads off on his first solo collection, to pick up an Austin van from the North York Moors.

Vauxhall Victor FB / Volvo Amazon VB: Derek picks up a five-vehicle haul from a collector who can no longer look after his motors, and Paul collects a rare 1972 Lancia Fulvia Berlina.