U and YESTERDAY

Fred Dibnah traces the development of steam power from the earliest experiments in the ancient world to the modern nuclear power station.

The Age of the Steam Locomotive: Fred Dibnah tells the story of steam trains, from the earliest colliery railways to the 1960s.

Fred Dibnah looks at the extraordinary expansion of industrial Britain in the 18th century.

Fred Dibnah looks at early experiments in the use of steam for road transport, and at the rise of the traction engine.

Fred Dibnah looks at how steam revolutionised shipping, from the earliest paddle steamers to more modern vessels like the Britannia.

Fred Dibnah looks at the advances made with the invention of the steam turbine.

Tim and Pru voyage through the dramatic landscape of northwest Portugal with deep locks, hilltop vineyards, and some port in Porto.

Tim and Pru visit the famously beautiful Welsh canal with a haunted castle en route.

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.

Robbie Cumming discovers a mysterious message in a bottle on the Ashby Canal and calls in to meet a mate who lives on an old narrowboat.

Simon begins his journey on the island of Hispaniola and its two very different countries of the Dominican Republic - a tourist hotspot - and its poorer neighbour Haiti.

The second leg of Simon Reeve's journey around the Caribbean Sea takes him from the beautiful island of Barbados to St Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela and Colombia.

Robbie Cumming journeys through Royal Leamington Spa and the historic town of Warwick with its medieval castle.

Robbie Cumming sets out to explore the meandering waterways of inner city Birmingham including the Soho Loop and the Engine Arm Canal.

Disaster strikes when the Naughty Lass collides with a low bridge on the Bumble Hole Canal Branch damaging a chimney.

Derek heads off to Blackpool to pick up a couple of unusual vehicles - a red 1970 Opel GT and a 1956 Ford Hot Rod pickup.

Pontiac GTO/Sunbeam and Morris Isis/Audi Quattro: Derek's off to Oswestry, to collect two much loved family heirlooms including a 1927 Sunbeam and a 1957 Isis.

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.

Robbie Cumming discovers a mysterious message in a bottle on the Ashby Canal and calls in to meet a mate who lives on an old narrowboat.