TV Guide Yesterday Monday

Fiona Bruce presents the show from Erddig in North Wales. Items brought in to be valued include a mourning ring with a connection to Charlotte Bronte, a Welsh love spoon handed down through the generations, a jade figurine from the Summer Palace in Beijing, and an 18th-century wine bottle which has links to a Scottish artist

Simon starts his travels through Brazil in one of the remotest regions of the Amazon with the Waiapi people, who cling on to their traditional way of life, which is under threat from logging and mining interests. In Manaus, the city at the heart of the Amazon, he visits a neglected indigenous neighbourhood and meets a nurse who was the only source of healthcare during the pandemic. Simon ends this leg of his journey on the west coast in the city of Rio de Janeiro, where the government has built a hi-tech control room to monitor all parts of the city for potential disasters such as floods

The adventurer begins the final leg of his journey on the northern tip of Sumatra in western Indonesia, near the epicentre of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, finding out how the province of Banda Aceh has undergone many changes since the disaster. He also explores the illegal trade in exotic pets in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, before heading for Australia, the final country on his epic journey. There he visits the unspoilt wilderness of the Kimberley region, meets a crocodile hunter and goes fishing with natives campaigning to stop the construction of a giant gas plant