TV Guide Yesterday

Robbie Cumming gets stuck in the mud in Woodseaves Cutting, and explores the charming canal-side village of Kinver in Staffordshire. First broadcast 9 December 2020

Michael Portillo explores East Anglia between the wars, beginning at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, where archaeologists discovered a 27-metre-long Anglo-Saxon ship in 1939. In the Essex village of Dedham, he unearths a nasty brush between painters, with art experts explaining the antipathy between traditional artist Alfred Munnings and the modern art school established in the village by Cedric Morris

Michael Portillo continues his Bradshaw's-inspired journey through East Anglia, where he discovers the Essex origins of the BBC. He also joins the Women's Land Army to pick damsons at Tiptree and visits homes fit for heroes in Becontree

Michael Portillo's Bradshaw travels resume in leafy Hertfordshire, where he attempts a canoe slalom course at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, built for the London Olympics in 2012. Travelling north, the presenter reaches Hatfield and the country estate of the queen of romance and author of 723 books, Barbara Cartland. In Stevenage, Michael learns how, in 1935, a new enterprise boosted production of the nation's daily loaf with a factory in the town.

Michael Portillo heads for the Hertfordshire village of Perry Green to learn about Henry Moore became one of the defining artists of British modernism. In Cambridge, he revisits his former university to hear about a treacherous time in its past

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 head to Brighton College, where objects up for valuation include a medal awarded to a teenage veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar, a silver box given to a family by US president John F Kennedy shortly before his assassination, and one of the largest, rarest and most valuable pieces of Clarice Cliff pottery ever seen on the programme

Fiona Bruce and the team return to Brighton College, where objects up for valuation include a cup and saucer purchased at a car boot sale, a portrait of a pig by a noted artist, and a collection of items found in a safe that once belonged to Agatha Christie

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

Robbie Cumming navigates the River Severn, and takes an unexpected bath as he tumbles at the Tardebigge lock flight in Worcestershire. First broadcast 9 December 2020

Robbie Cumming sets out on the last leg of his journey across central England. While crossing an epic aqueduct near Stratford-upon-Avon, the narrowboat enthusiast gets stuck in a lock in the heart of Birmingham. First broadcast 9 December 2020