TV Guide Yesterday Thursday

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

Armed with his 1913 railway guide, Michael Portillo travels through Italy from Turin to Venice. Along the way, he recreates a scene from the Michael Caine film The Italian Job on a Fiat test track and takes a trip in a seaplane to investigate the early 20th-century British love affair with Lake Como. In Verona, he visits the house used to attract Edwardian tourists to the alleged setting of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and finds a microcosm of pre-First World War Europe at the Venice Biennale art exhibition

Michael Portillo travels through Germany, learning about an Edwardian fitness craze in Dresden before heading to Leipzig on a historic line built by British engineers in 1839. He discovers model-railway making on the grandest of scales in Hamburg and ends his journey in Kiel, where he reveals how British yachtsmen spied on the German navy in the early 20th century

Fiona Bruce presents the show from the Bishop's Palace in Wells, where finds include a blues guitar, a broken plate by the Victorian designer Augustus Pugin, and a piece of street art on a metal panel. Plus, the story of one of the first female gymnasts to compete in the Olympics in 1928, furniture specialist Lennox Cato discusses his life in antiques, and Fiona is challenged to put three pieces of stunning Fabergé jewellery in order of value

Fiona Bruce and the team return to Ham House in Richmond-upon-Thames, and picture specialist Alexandra Gill talks about how Tutankhamun inspired her journey into antiques. Items brought in to be valued include an 18th-century effigy, an Indian Order of Merit medal awarded to a Sikh soldier in the First World War, an 18th-century pistol and a gold necklace from the Alaskan Gold Rush. Plus, Jon Baddeley challenges Fiona to rank three intriguing optical items in order of value.