TV Guide Yesterday Wednesday

In 1985, a very tense time, a young Mikhail Gorbachev is instated as the new leader of the Soviet Union. East and West have been publicly stockpiling nuclear weapons for decades, neither side wanting to appear weak. Plus, the spying game threatens the first tentative moves towards peace

Michael Portillo uses his 1913 copy of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide to explore Holland and Belgium, before travelling to the French sector of the Western Front. He ends his journey in the Forest of Compiegne in northern France to hear how the First World War armistice was signed in a railway carriage

Michael Portillo once again ventures onto the European rail network to retrace journeys featured in George Bradshaw's 1913 publication Continental Guide. He begins in Spain, where he visits the scene of an assassination attempt at a royal wedding in Madrid, before dancing with an unusual partner in Cordoba. He investigates the story behind Bizet's Carmen at a tobacco factory in Seville, learns about Winston Churchill's tense diplomatic mission to Algeciras and finishes with tales of British espionage in Gibraltar

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

Fiona Bruce presents the show from Portchester Castle on the Hampshire coast, where finds brought in include a previously unpublished poem by Siegfried Sassoon, a water-damaged letter that survived the sinking of the Titanic, a Victoria Cross medal, a rare cigarette lighter and a painting by one of the stars of the original Hawaii 5-0. Plus, Lee Young challenges Fiona to place a trio of model cars in order of value

Fiona Bruce presents the show from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. She gets to see one of the resident botanical artists at work capturing flowers and plants on paper, and finds out about Lillian Snelling, a pioneering artist from the early 20th century. Items brought in to be valued include two paintings of three-dimensional raindrops, a botanist's gadget cane, and a curious rocking horse in the shape of a British army general

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

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