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Michael Portillo takes the train down the spine of Italy as he travels from Rome to Sicily, along the way visiting Naples to find out about the country's first railway

Michael Portillo uses his 1913 copy of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide to explore Poland, visiting Warsaw, Lodz, Poznan, Wroclaw and Krakow along the way

Derek collects a Jaguar Mark 2 and explains why they made such poor getaway cars for 1960s bank robbers. A customer considers a Morris Marina as a Christmas present for his wife

The team is under pressure with a record number of cars to auction, but Derek finds room for one more - a replica AC Cobra. A couple are reunited with their Volvo breakdown truck

HMS Queen Elizabeth stops off in Cyprus, but a sailor contracted Covid-19 while on shore leave and the virus spreads quickly and leaves nearly 400 crew in isolation

How German U-boats were used to try to starve Britain in the battle for control of the Atlantic

Sean Fletcher walks an eight-mile route along the River Lea, taking in the landmarks of an industrial past and discovering what the future holds for the waterway

Zoologist and broadcaster Miranda Krestovnikoff walks along the Deben in Suffolk, exploring the river's history and wildlife and meeting people whose lives are shaped by it

Fiona Bruce presents the show from Aston Hall in Birmingham, and is joined by poet Benjamin Zephaniah, who grew up nearby and has fond childhood memories of playing in the grounds

Derek is off to Bridlington to pick up a trio of classics - a Morris 8 tourer, a Mini Van and a 1940s Morris LC3 truck

Derek heads off to Blackpool to pick up a couple of unusual vehicles - a red 1970 Opel GT and a 1956 Ford Hot Rod pickup

HMS Queen Elizabeth stops off in Cyprus, but a sailor contracted Covid-19 while on shore leave and the virus spreads quickly and leaves nearly 400 crew in isolation

How German U-boats were used to try to starve Britain in the battle for control of the Atlantic

Fiona Bruce presents the show from Aston Hall in Birmingham, and is joined by poet Benjamin Zephaniah, who grew up nearby and has fond childhood memories of playing in the grounds

Michael Portillo takes the train down the spine of Italy as he travels from Rome to Sicily, along the way visiting Naples to find out about the country's first railway

Michael Portillo alights at Wareham to visit Dorset's Jurassic Coast. He heads through Swanage, Poole and Sandbanks, before ending his journey on Brownsea Island

Michael Portillo heads from a bustling Southampton to the Isle of Wight, where he rides the island's railway, made up of recycled London Underground trains

The first of two final programmes, in which Prunella Scales and Timothy West explore Vietnam and Cambodia by canal barge. The journey begins in the limestone islands of Halong Bay

Derek's got his work cut out collecting a huge haul that includes two Bentleys, a Daimler and a traditional Bowtop caravan

Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien head to Preston to meet Claire, who works for a theatre company, picking up a stage light that's no longer needed and a vintage railway lamp

The Mathewsons sell a 1958 Bedford D122 and a 1969 Vanden Plas Princess. They also meet a collector who may be willing to finally part with his 220-car collection

The mysterious Cachtice Castle home to Elizabeth Bathory, said to have killed more than 600 girls, and a mysterious structure on the 38th parallel

A small isolated country littered with strange concrete mushrooms and a secret Japanese facility that was once at the forefront of weapons technology

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Michael Portillo travels through Spain and Portugal, along the way meeting people from all over the world on the pilgrims' trail to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia