TV Guide Yesterday Wednesday

Michael Portillo travels through New Mexico, watching rehearsals at the Santa Fe Opera House and learning about a Lancashire railroad caterer who made his fortune. He then sets off from Albuquerque to pick up Arizona's Grand Canyon Railway as heads off to witness one of the greatest sights on Earth

Michael Portillo travels through Minneapolis and St Paul, where he learns how the power of the Mississippi helped Minneapolis become a great industrial centre. Later in St Paul, he explores the birthplace of F Scott Fitzgerald, and meets with a Native American expert to discover more about a dark chapter in American history

Fiona Bruce presents a special episode from the set of EastEnders celebrating the history of film, theatre, music and television. The team values some iconic bits of memorabilia, including iconic props from Star Wars, The Shining and Raiders of the Lost Ark, as well as a script for the very first episode of Doctor Who. Plus, a woman reveals how her collection of Harry Potter books brings back memories of her mother, and Fiona drops into the Queen Vic for a chat with Letitia Dean and June Brown

The team visits the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, where Geoffrey Munn examines a Faberge jewel, commissioned by the Countess of Dudley in 1903. Other artefacts brought in to be examined include a 3,000-year-old baby rattle, a typewriter used by Enid Blyton, a script with transcriptions by a young Laurence Olivier, and a tin of children's toys that was hidden up a chimney as part of a treasure hunt in 1940