TV Guide Yesterday Thursday

An examination of the dark history behind Britain's fascination with murder, beginning with historian and curator Lucy Worsley exploring how notorious killings were transformed into popular entertainment in the first half of the 19th century

Michael Portillo resumes his tour of the Home Counties in the historic town of Guildford. Later, in Chilworth, he follows his 1936 Bradshaw's guide to Newlands Corner on the slopes of the North Downs. Eventually he crosses into Hampshire to reach Aldershot

Michael Portillo heads for Farnborough, Hampshire, famous today for its airshow and home to what was then the Royal Aircraft Establishment. In Basingstoke he visits a glorious neo-Gothic stately home set in the North Wessex Downs

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

The months following prime minister Neville Chamberlain's declaration of war against Germany, in which the only casualties on the home front were those who had to endure the blackouts. Elsewhere in Europe, the Nazi war machine cut a swathe of destruction. Narrated by Laurence Olivier

Fiona Bruce presents the show from the Ulster Folk Museum just outside Belfast, where items include a DeLorean car, a pair of 100-year-old anklets worn by women in India, a stone head dug up in a garden, a CF Martin acoustic guitar that has travelled the world, and a carving with links to maritime history. Fiona also explores the history of Irish linen and is challenged to place three diamond-set rings inspired by art deco design in order of value

Fiona Bruce presents the show from the grounds of Wollaton Hall in Nottingham, where treasures include a fire extinguisher cocktail shaker, a toy monkey popping out of a musical pineapple, and underwear belonging to Queen Victoria. Fiona also learns about local activist George Powe, who campaigned to secure employment opportunities for black workers at Raleigh in the 1950s, and guesses the value of three cameo items

The months following prime minister Neville Chamberlain's declaration of war against Germany, in which the only casualties on the home front were those who had to endure the blackouts. Elsewhere in Europe, the Nazi war machine cut a swathe of destruction. Narrated by Laurence Olivier

In the second programme, the historian explores how science and detection influenced the popular culture of murder during Victorian times. Writers including Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins were fascinated by grisly crimes, and the literary genre that came out of it captured the imagination of readers. The presenter also reveals that when Jack the Ripper began his reign of terror in London at the same time Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was published, the idea of the serial killer was introduced to the British public