U&Yesterday TV Guide — Friday, 17 July 2026

Henry and Simon visit Jim's vast barn in Leicestershire. Henry takes a risk on an old Ford Prefect, while Simon opts to upcycle three chicken feeders

Robson and his Grantchester co-star Tom Brittney take a road trip around County Durham, where they go dragonboat racing on the Wear a journey on the oldest railway in the world at Tanfield. They also spend a night in a forest camp, where they forage for food, enjoy a campfire sing-song and a sleep in self-erected hammocks

Robson invites TV presenter Steph McGovern on a journey around Northumberland. They search for ingredients for dinner with the help of a beach foraging expert, harness the wind to try their hands at kite buggying here they enjoy beach foraging, kite buggying and go looking for tiny wildlife on a bug safari

A Middle Eastern region littered with ruins and a strange facility in Taiwan that struck fear into the hearts of those who knew its true purpose

Eerie ruins hiding in the forested hills of Arkansas, USA, and a disintegrating gulag in Albania that housed enemies of the state

Up for sale at the Mathewson's auction - a 1275 Mini GT that's come from just down the road that 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

Part one of two. BBC diplomatic editor and former army officer Mark Urban examines the exploits of six members of the 5th Royal Tank Regiment during the Second World War, beginning in northern France, where in 1940 rookie driver Gerry Solomon joined veterans including Jake Wardrop and Harry Finlayson. He follows in the soldiers' tracks across the deserts of North Africa, where he looks at the battles of Sidi Rezegh, Alam el Halfa and El Alamein, which changed the course of the conflict. With archive footage, including rarely seen colour film, as well as first-hand testimony from surviving veterans and letters and diaries

Sean Bean narrates a three-part docu-drama charting the campaign waged by Allied forces toward the end of the Second World War which culminated in the final conquest of Hitler's Reich. He begins with an account of the decisive struggle to break out from the Normandy beach-head in June 1944 and advance across Europe, drawing on the memories of those who fought on both sides, and charts the growing tension between American and British commanders Dwight D Eisenhower and General Montgomery

Fiona Bruce and the team make a second visit to Port Sunlight on the Wirral, where members of the public bring along family treasures and other, more eclectic, items. Objects include a stash of advertising signs found on a tip, part of an Apollo spaceship given to a boy in the 1960s, an exquisite piece of oriental ceramic and a religious painting that raises the question: fake or fortune?

Fiona Bruce and the team return to St Andrews University in Scotland, where objects being valued include an exquisitely crafted netsuke - or miniature Japanese sculpture - bought in a charity shop for a few pence, a toy collection that inspired the owner to go on to become a fighter pilot and some of the earliest golfing trophies in the world. Plus, a collector with more than 1,500 pieces of post-war ceramics

Dave alerts the team to a 1979 Lotus Esprit S3. It's an expensive buy and a serious risk, but it's also a thoroughbred classic in need of a proper recommission

The Restoring Classics team pays tribute to mid-80s-Midlands by breathing new life into what was once the fastest production MG ever made - the Montego Turbo

Part one of two. BBC diplomatic editor and former army officer Mark Urban examines the exploits of six members of the 5th Royal Tank Regiment during the Second World War, beginning in northern France, where in 1940 rookie driver Gerry Solomon joined veterans including Jake Wardrop and Harry Finlayson. He follows in the soldiers' tracks across the deserts of North Africa, where he looks at the battles of Sidi Rezegh, Alam el Halfa and El Alamein, which changed the course of the conflict. With archive footage, including rarely seen colour film, as well as first-hand testimony from surviving veterans and letters and diaries

Sean Bean narrates a three-part docu-drama charting the campaign waged by Allied forces toward the end of the Second World War which culminated in the final conquest of Hitler's Reich. He begins with an account of the decisive struggle to break out from the Normandy beach-head in June 1944 and advance across Europe, drawing on the memories of those who fought on both sides, and charts the growing tension between American and British commanders Dwight D Eisenhower and General Montgomery