U and YESTERDAY

At the Maserati factory in Turin: Discover how a Quattroporte Super Saloon is built. Using aerospace technology and techniques from robot assembly.

The Morgan Motor Company have opened their doors to reveal how they hand-build their brand new Plus Six.

The Red Army develops strength and Hitler's Spring Offensive is stopped at Stalingrad; and in the largest ghetto the inhabitants' fight back in the Warsaw Uprising.

In Kursk, a 'battlefield' the size of Wales, the tide turns, and the Soviet's push back, but as Germany retreats, they destroy all evidence of their genocidal activities.

Hitler's War moves to its endgame as the Soviets cross the German border - with a death toll of over 40 million, a new, scarred Europe will emerge.

Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien assess sewing machines in Kent as they continue their journey across the UK to find unique and valuable items 'lost' in people's homes.

Henry Cole tries to restore a monkey bike, and Simon O'Brien makes use of all his skills as he tries to give new life to an old racing bicycle.

Simon O'Brien finds a barn containing a collection of replica Rolls-Royce cars, and Henry Cole tries his hand at driving a tractor as they continue their money-making tour.

Starting at the Giant's Causeway, Simon travels down the east coast to the rapidly changing cities of Belfast and Dublin before ending his tour in the Wicklow Mountains.

Simon Reeve investigates the environmental challenges facing Cornwall and the rest of the country, and encounters some of the county's iconic wildlife.

Former Coronation Street actress Melanie Hill joins Robson Green to explore the countryside of Weardale and Teesdale.

Robson Green is joined by his Uncle Matheson to test a night in a local youth hostel. They also take a guided walk on Hadrian's Wall.

Tim and Pru travel past enchanted forests, fairy-tale castles, and picturesque mountains and valleys on a trip through Alsace and Lorraine in France.

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.

Michael Portillo follows America's iconic River Hudson, beginning at New York City's Penn Station, before sampling ale and meeting the State Senator in Albany.

Michael Portillo travels across New York state, discovering how General Electric also leads the way in rail technology.

The very first pilot episode of the comedy that ran for longer than World War II itself. Rene is lumbered with the task of looking after British airmen.

Classic farce in the wartime cafe owned by the ultimate French lover. Rene and the Colonel decide to smuggle out the two British airmen disguised as Germans.

More saucy wartime farce from Rene's cafe. I say, chaps, Fairfax and Carstairs are captured by the Resistance. And carrier pigeons end up on the cafe's menu.

At the Maserati factory in Turin: Discover how a Quattroporte Super Saloon is built. Using aerospace technology and techniques from robot assembly.

Michael Portillo takes in Georgia and Azerbaijan as he journeys through the former Russian empire. He visits a tea plantation and a museum dedicated to Joseph Stalin.

Michael Portillo follows America's iconic River Hudson, beginning at New York City's Penn Station, before sampling ale and meeting the State Senator in Albany.

Shopping from Home.

Recalling America's entry into World War II after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the great Laurence Olivier sheds more light on the deadliest conflict in history.

Laurence Olivier narrates this exhaustive account of World War II. In the deserts of North Africa, the 8th Army battles against Rommel's Afrika Korps.

An epic timeline of WWII, as told by Laurence Olivier. After Hitler's initial territorial gains in Russia, his relentless advance was decisively stopped at Stalingrad.

The definitive guide to World War II, narrated by the late, great Laurence Olivier. Hear how German U-boats caused havoc among Allied merchant shipping in the Atlantic.

Following Operation Barbarossa in 1941, the Soviet Army battled the Germans almost alone for two years. Laurence Olivier recounts their efforts as the epic series continues.

The ultimate guide to World War II, narrated by Laurence Olivier. Bomber Command are unable to hit their targets precisely and attack German cities under cover of darkness.

In Shropshire a Great Western Railway 'Modified Hall' steam engine and its tender is being taken out of service as it needs a safety inspection.

A cherished wartime iron workhorse needs to be hauled 160 miles from the Churnet Valley Railway in Staffordshire to a winter extravaganza in Oxfordshire.

Guy Martin and a team from the Black Country Living Museum restore a Newcomen engine, an 18th-century steam-powered device used principally to pump water out of mines.

Guy Martin helps with the restoration of the oldest surviving Brixham sailing trawler and discovers how Britain acquired its taste for fish and chips.

Guy Martin helps with the restoration of Birmingham Botanical Gardens while learning how to blow glass and trying to rebuild one of the first lawnmowers.

Robbie Cumming takes a tumble at Buckby Locks in Northamptonshire and has a problem with his power supply and battery bank.

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 explores the picturesque Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

Cheeky laughs in occupied France, by brilliant writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft. The British airmen are back in Rene's cafe, having failed to escape.

While Rene believes he is finally getting rid of the British airmen, another agent is dropped by parachute, disguised as a French policeman with a bad accent.

Terrible accents to the fore in the classic World War II sitcom. Rene and Captain Geering are ambushed by the Resistance, while Edith gets a proposal.

Paul and Jack head to Staffordshire to pick up five vehicles from collector Rob's colossal barn, including a Mini and a Morris Minor.

Guy Martin and a team from the Black Country Living Museum restore a Newcomen engine, an 18th-century steam-powered device used principally to pump water out of mines.

Guy Martin helps with the restoration of the oldest surviving Brixham sailing trawler and discovers how Britain acquired its taste for fish and chips.

Guy Martin helps with the restoration of Birmingham Botanical Gardens while learning how to blow glass and trying to rebuild one of the first lawnmowers.

Shopping from Home.

On a railway journey from the capital Palermo to Europe's largest volcano, Mount Etna, Michael Portillo explores Sicilian life under Mussolini.

Michael Portillo travels by train through Austria and the Czech Republic, beginning in the northern Austrian city of Linz, where Adolf Hitler lived as a boy.

An American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost and an island fortress in Scotland with an Achilles heel.

An iron monster lost in the Alaskan tundra, a Crusader fort thrown into a modern conflict, and a prison built to house a mafia kingpin.

In 1944, 1,500 outnumbered British troops amazingly held Japanese forces at the key Burmese town of Kohima. Hear about their valiant feats of wartime derring-do.

In blacked-out London four young women are murdered - just like Jack fifty years before. When two flights disappear without a trace, the legend of the Bermuda Triangle begins.

Tim and Pru explore one of the world's great waterways - the River Nile - while travelling from Luxor to Aswan, visiting a Nubian village, and dancing by moonlight.

The team visits Waltham Forest Town Hall in east London, where items include a Rolex with a connection to Britain's Special Forces.

The team break with tradition and actually follow Dave Mathewson's advice on what to restore - he points to a 1992 Vauxhall Nova Merit Plus.

The team restore a 1988 Golf GTI Convertible - an iconic hot hatch - along with a wooden launch boat and catch-up on a Mk1 Austin Mini.

Major-General 'Roy' Urquhart led the doomed British attack on Arnhem, but somehow made it back across the Rhine, dodging enemy gunfire and patrols.

The Germans hear that Polish forces are fighting alongside a huge bear. Tales of this beer-swilling, chain-smoking beast terrify them - but incredibly the stories are true.

The team visits Waltham Forest Town Hall in east London, where items include a Rolex with a connection to Britain's Special Forces.

Guy Martin's training ramps up at the UK's only aerial combat school, where he must master dogfighting at 200mph, handling extreme g-force, and flying upside down.

Henry and Simon are off to the Peak District to meet mechanic Ian. Henry falls in love with a vintage tractor and Simon thinks an industrial trolley can become a table.

Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien look for valuable items languishing in people's homes, unearthing a church pew, create a fish tank from scrap and uncover a special petrol tank.

The team break with tradition and actually follow Dave Mathewson's advice on what to restore - he points to a 1992 Vauxhall Nova Merit Plus.

An American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost and an island fortress in Scotland with an Achilles heel.