TV Guide Yesterday Friday

Lucy explores how American history has been mythologised and manipulated by generations of politicians, writers and protesters. She begins by examining the American Revolution - a David-and-Goliath battle of men with high ideals taking on the might of the British Empire. But how much of America's founding story is based on fact?

Michael Portillo continues his journey in the East Yorkshire resort of Hornsea, famous for its distinctive pottery. In Hull, he discovers how one of Hull FC's star players made history as Britain's first black rugby captain. From Hull, Michael hitches a ride on a fine-looking barge heading to Goole on a network of canals. At Spurn Point, Michael hears how along this coast an ingenious 19th-century RNLI invention saved many lives

Michael Portillo has reached Lincolnshire, where his coastal railway journey from Middlesbrough ends. In Grimsby Town, he investigates a new stage in the town's history - as a maintenance base for some of the largest wind farms in the world. In neighbouring Cleethorpes, Michael rides on the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway, pulled by a miniature steam locomotive. Later, Michael makes for a curious and wild stretch of coastline at Humberston

Michael Portillo heads to Northern Ireland's spectacular Causeway coast to begin a new journey, which takes him along the north and east coasts through Ulster and Leinster. He begins in Co Derry on the windswept shores of Loch Foyle, where the largest accumulation of coastal sands in Ireland has formed a system of dunes visible from space. He also learns how scientists are monitoring the site and hears how their work has been picked up by fellow scientists in the United States to help research the surface of Mars

Hitler retreats from public life as he faces defeat on the Eastern Front after the Red Army's triumph at Stalingrad, with senior Nazis competing to prove themselves as his most valuable deputy. Meanwhile, student resistance group the White Rose call on the youth of Germany to rise up and overthrow Hitler and the Nazis, and Claus von Stauffenberg is part of a military resistance network who are planning to kill the Fuhrer

Fiona Bruce presents the show from Crathes Castle in Aberdeenshire. Items brought in to be valued include a royal portrait which is not all that it seems, a Cartier clock, a tiny bowl with a giant price tag, a hat once given to Ronald Reagan and a walking stick belonging to Scottish music hall star Harry Lauder

Fiona Bruce presents the show from underneath the last Concorde to ever fly at Aerospace in Bristol, which is celebrating 50 years since its maiden flight. Objects brought in to be valued include a Fijian war club, a tiny Chinese vase, a collection of Radiohead memorabilia, a four leaf clover brooch, a rare piece of Venetian glass and a set of silver candlesticks

Hitler retreats from public life as he faces defeat on the Eastern Front after the Red Army's triumph at Stalingrad, with senior Nazis competing to prove themselves as his most valuable deputy. Meanwhile, student resistance group the White Rose call on the youth of Germany to rise up and overthrow Hitler and the Nazis, and Claus von Stauffenberg is part of a military resistance network who are planning to kill the Fuhrer

Lucy Worsley debunks the myths behind the American Civil War, revealing how its history has been retold over the years to promote freedom and equality but also hatred and division. She reveals how Abraham Lincoln's personal views, and the behaviour of his troops towards African Americans, were not as noble as they appeared. She also learns how history was rewritten in a bid to downplay the evils of slavery, and how a 1905 blockbuster film about the Civil War relaunched the Ku Klux Klan with terrifying results