U&Yesterday TV Guide — Wednesday, 2 September 2026

A classic car fan with a love of the Jaguar E-Type reluctantly sends his dream car to auction, hoping to buy a motorhome with the money. Two Ford Escorts get Dave's pulse racing

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

Tim Dunn visits the Ffestiniog railway in north Wales, originally built to transport slate from mountain to coast and learns about Amsterdam Centraal, which was controversially built across the waterfront

Tim Dunn ventures to Ribblehead Viaduct in the Yorkshire Dales, talks to the man who saved it from closure and tours the stations of the Hungerbergbahn in Innsbruck

Tim Dun follows his family's roots by exploring Metroland, the area surrounding the Metropolitan Railway, and in Great Malvern he learns about the woman behind the decorative 1980s station

The team fly the flag for King and country with one of their most luxurious purchases to date - a 1981 Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit

The team think they can smell profit by choosing one of the simplest cars ever built, the VW Beetle

It is 1933 and Adolf Hitler is the chancellor of Germany, but he does not have absolute power as there is still a democratic parliament, a head of state and the rule of law. Hitler calls a general election to increase Nazi representation, but a fire in the Reichstag building is blamed on communists - prompting thousands of arrests of left-wingers. Hitler then calls on President von Hindenburg to act and a decree is passed giving the Nazis emergency powers to ban free speech and the right to protest

The Luftwaffe's bombing raids on Britain's provincial cities, when Coventry and Plymouth were hardest hit, although Portsmouth, Glasgow, Sheffield and Bristol also suffered heavy casualties. Narrated by Laurence Olivier

Fiona Bruce and the team find a few treasures at Lowther Castle in Cumbria, including a 19th-century toy steamboat, a saucy illustration by English artist Lawson Wood, a lipstick and compact set evoking the glamour of 1920s Manhattan, and a rare letter providing a first-hand account of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. There's also another chance to meet Bess, a stuffed dog with an aristocratic pedigree first featured on the show in 2011

Fiona Bruce and the team pay a second visit to Lowther Castle in Cumbria, where items include an army of Action Man figures, a 'skeletonised' pendulum wall clock from the 1870s, a working child-sized car from the 1930s and a ring containing a gem that may or may not be worth a small fortune. There's also an insight into Beatrix Potter's scientific watercolours of woodland plants and animals - and her controversial work on the sex life of fungi

Dave's in fast car heaven as he picks up a rare Subaru Impreza and an equally powerful Ford Escort RS Cosworth from North Wales

A rare 1968 Honda N600 car emerges from a lock up in County Durham and Derek's in Scotland to collect an original RAC Bedford van

It is 1933 and Adolf Hitler is the chancellor of Germany, but he does not have absolute power as there is still a democratic parliament, a head of state and the rule of law. Hitler calls a general election to increase Nazi representation, but a fire in the Reichstag building is blamed on communists - prompting thousands of arrests of left-wingers. Hitler then calls on President von Hindenburg to act and a decree is passed giving the Nazis emergency powers to ban free speech and the right to protest

The Luftwaffe's bombing raids on Britain's provincial cities, when Coventry and Plymouth were hardest hit, although Portsmouth, Glasgow, Sheffield and Bristol also suffered heavy casualties. Narrated by Laurence Olivier