TV Guide Yesterday Monday

Michael Portillo travels between Liverpool and Wales. Along the way he discovers a childhood favourite - a miniature tank engine with three carriages in dark red - made by Frank Hornby, and learns the story of a Welsh countess who lived in Gwrych Castle. In Snowdonia, he also rides the waves with a Welsh surfing champion

In picturesque Snowdonia, Michael Portillo braves the fastest zip line in the world - stretching 1,500 feet across a vast slate quarry as he begins the last leg of his journey to Caernarfon. En route, he also visits the home of British mountaineering, Pen y Gwryd, to hear how an Edwardian journalist and poet created a climbing community, which grew to include men who would conquer Everest in the 1950s

Michael Portillo arrives in Hassocks and makes his way to the beautiful Sussex village of Ditchling, where a Roman Catholic community of artists once made their home. Next, he visits the seaside town of Bexhill-on-Sea, before the Kent and East Sussex heritage railway conveys Michael from Bodiam Castle through the scenic Rother Valley to Tenterden, and finally arrives in the village of Benenden

Michael Portillo follows his 1930s Bradshaw's guide to the unspoilt East Sussex port of Rye, where he learns about the loss of a generation of lifeboatmen in 1928. On the beaches at Rye, Michael explores one of 28,000 pillboxes constructed around the British coastline during the Second World War, before boarding the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway to Dungeness

Documentary charting the rise of Nazi Germany's Silver Arrow Grand Prix and speed record cars of the 1930s. Leading motor racing and Second World War experts James Holland, Richard Williams, Eberhard Reuss and Chris Routledge tell the story of the Nazi-funded Auto Union and Mercedes Benz National Racing Cars

How the morale of the Third Reich, boosted by Germany's initial military successes, was shattered by the devastating defeat at Stalingrad, relentless Allied bombing raids and an attempt on Hitler's life. Narrated by Laurence Olivier

Fiona Bruce and the experts pay a second visit to Hopetoun House in South Queensferry, Edinburgh, valuing items including Victorian dresses worn by royalty, a silver jewel box that dates back to the 16th century and a famous photograph of the Forth Bridge that was used as part of a Nazi propaganda campaign during the Second World War

Fiona Bruce and the experts head to the British Museum in London to value more of the public's keepsakes and collectibles, including a pair of wooden pillars from HMS Victory and an 18th-century dandy's outfit. They also meet an eight-year-old boy whose collection includes an MBE, and reflect on the museum's former project A History of the World

Documentary charting the rise of Nazi Germany's Silver Arrow Grand Prix and speed record cars of the 1930s. Leading motor racing and Second World War experts James Holland, Richard Williams, Eberhard Reuss and Chris Routledge tell the story of the Nazi-funded Auto Union and Mercedes Benz National Racing Cars

How the morale of the Third Reich, boosted by Germany's initial military successes, was shattered by the devastating defeat at Stalingrad, relentless Allied bombing raids and an attempt on Hitler's life. Narrated by Laurence Olivier

Narrowboater Robbie Cumming explores the Victorian vWest Yorkshire village of Saltaire on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. He also moors up in Leeds and goes in search of an abandoned waterway on the Aire and Calder Navigation

On the last leg of his epic journey across the north of England, narrowboater Robbie Cumming tackles the fast-flowing River Ouse and is forced to make an emergency stop. His destination is Ripon Basin at the outer reaches of Britain's inland waterways