TV Guide Yesterday Thursday

Autumnal fog and an overheating engine prove to be problems for narrowboater Robbie Cumming. As he navigates a Roman waterway, it proves to be a journey of many challenges as he runs aground and breaks down in Nottingham

On the last leg of his journey across the North and the Midlands, Robbie faces issues with ice on the Grand Union Canal. He takes on Foxton's famous lock flight in Leicestershire and completes his journey in the picturesque village Braunston, Northamptonshire, regarded as the spiritual home for narrowboaters

Michael Portillo's railway journey reaches Greater Manchester, where he celebrates new beginnings for the nation in the years after the Second World War. At Trafford General Hospital, he investigates the birth of the National Health Service. A retired physiotherapist recalls her part in the historic event of July 5, 1948. Coronation Star tells Michael about the first episode of the soap, broadcast live in 1960. And at the city's Science and Industry Museum, the presenter encounters a replica of the Baby, which was created in 1948 - the first machine in the world to run a stored program and the forerunner of all modern computers

Michael Portillo travels by tram to the former cotton town of Oldham on the edge of the Peak District. Here he visits Oldham Coliseum, the town's Victorian repertory theatre, and hears about the lifting of censorship by the Lord Chamberlain's Office in the late 1960s. He then goes hiking before a visit to Sheffield, where he attends a knife-making workshop. He ends this part of his journey admiring the striking post-war sculptures of Barbara Hepworth at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield

In Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Michael Portillo visits the National Coal Mining Museum for England at Caphouse Colliery. In Leeds, he heads for the Chapeltown area to investigate the origins of the Leeds West Indian carnival in 1967 and tries his hand on the steel drums

Michael Portillo continues his post-war exploration of northwest England in Bradford, Shipley and Hebden Bridge. In Bradford's Centenary Square, he encounters local literary giant, JB Priestley. At Shipley station, Michael discovers a nature reserve in the middle of the car park. Finally the Calder Valley Line delivers the presenter to the photogenic station at Hebden Bridge

Laurence Olivier narrates an account of the liberation of Paris and Brussels in 1944, events which to many signified the end of the war. However, as the German forces retreated, Poland fell victim to one of the most tragic events of the war, Documentary chronicling the Second World War

Fiona Bruce and the experts return to Chatsworth House in Derbyshire to inspect more objects and rarities brought in by members of the public. Among the items up for inspection are a painting believed to be by Constable, and a set of designs for exotic Cartier jewellery from the mid-20th century

Fiona Bruce and the experts visit Blair Castle in Perthshire, where items up for valuation include a chair once used by Albert Einstein, a rare watch with no hands, and a necklace made from stags' teeth

Laurence Olivier narrates an account of the liberation of Paris and Brussels in 1944, events which to many signified the end of the war. However, as the German forces retreated, Poland fell victim to one of the most tragic events of the war, Documentary chronicling the Second World War