U and YESTERDAY

Michael Portillo travels from Canberra to Melbourne, hearing the history of the cricket Ashes, and visiting the home of soprano Dame Nellie Melba.

Michael Portillo travels through Queensland from Kuranda to Townsville, learning to harvest sugar cane and hearing how locals withstand tropical storms.

Michael Portillo travels along the eastern coast of Australia from the coal mines of Newcastle, New South Wales, to Brisbane.

Robbie begins a new canal adventure in Wales and encounters towering aqueducts and stunning scenery along the way.

Robbie's journey on the Llangollen Canal takes an unexpected turn when his boat gets stuck in silt and a passing hire boat comes to the rescue.

Robbie Cumming navigates the scenic Oxford Canal onboard Naughty Lass, explores its twists and turns, and helps tow a stranded broken-down boater.

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.

Simon Reeve travels along the Ganges from the foothills of the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal to explore how India's economy has affected its religious culture.

Robbie moors by Hampton Court Palace, but disaster strikes when a tree branch smashes a window. His dad joins to help through Hanwell locks.

Robbie begins a new canal adventure in Wales and encounters towering aqueducts and stunning scenery along the way.

Robbie's journey on the Llangollen Canal takes an unexpected turn when his boat gets stuck in silt and a passing hire boat comes to the rescue.

Derek heads off to Colchester to pick up a 1960 Aston Martin DB4 that has been sitting under a tarpaulin in a garage that has collapsed round it for 40 years.

Dave is 'lost in France' en route to picking up a rare Honda NSX. Derek heads to a toy factory where some vintage motorbikes are stashed.

This week tells the tale of the two Mercs, but what will the moral of the story be? Plus, the team get stuck into a moddable favourite - a 2006 Ford Fiesta ST.

An inside look at one of the most successful sides in club football history - Pep Guardiola's Barcelona - and the philosophy the led them to incredible triumphs.