Yesterday TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On Yesterday Tonight

Yesterday is UKTV’s history and heritage channel: archive documentaries, military history, natural history and, these days, a great deal of classic motoring. BBC Studios has owned it outright through UKTV since 2019, and it’s free with no subscription. Tuesday’s evening is a motoring-heavy one: Antiques Roadshow closes out the afternoon at 6pm, The Green Planet takes 7pm, then it’s Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics at 8pm and Bangers & Cash at 9pm, both repeating through to midnight. More on that below. Channel numbers are further down.

Yesterday Schedule: Tuesday 4 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Yesterday schedule for Tuesday 4 August 2026, on Freeview 27.

What’s on Yesterday today

Tuesday opens with Bangers & Cash at midnight, Dave visiting a Leicestershire seller with a Ford Granada Ghia and a Ford Cortina. A new Find It, Fix It, Flog It follows at 1am, the team in Oswestry turning a period fireplace into a water feature, then Abandoned Engineering at 2am ahead of the teleshopping block that runs from 3am to 6:10am.

Two more Abandoned Engineering episodes fill the early morning from 6:10am, then a Bangers & Cash double bill takes 8am and 9am. Secret Nazi Bases opens the mid-morning at 10am, followed by Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution at 11am, and two fresh Antiques Roadshow episodes, both filmed at Eastbourne’s seafront, take the early afternoon from midday.

Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics and Bangers & Cash run back to back at 2pm and 3pm, and then the afternoon repeats itself: Secret Nazi Bases returns at 4pm, Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution again at 5pm, and the Antiques Roadshow episode from midday comes round again at 6pm, before the evening’s new material begins with The Green Planet at 7pm.

Yesterday tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Yesterday primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 4 August 2026.

Antiques Roadshow — Yesterday, 6pm

Fiona Bruce’s Eastbourne bandstand visit gets a second airing at 6pm, the same edition that ran at midday. Among the items up for appraisal are a D-Day signalling lamp and a set of rare Marilyn Monroe photographs.

The Green Planet — Yesterday, 7pm

David Attenborough turns to plant life for Water Worlds, the second episode of the series, following aquatic vegetation in a Brazilian river dense enough to generate its own atmosphere.

Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics — Yesterday, 8pm

Titled Fastback/Norton, this one has the restoration team working on a 1972 VW Fastback alongside a police motorbike pushing forty years old.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 9pm

Derek collects an Opel Manta GT, Charlie and his mum arrive with a Morris Oxford, and Paul gets his hands on a motoring relic he’s been after for a while. Four vehicles, one hour.

Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics — Yesterday, 10pm

A repeat of the 2pm edition. The team take on a 1963 Lotus Elan Series 1 as their main project, with a 1990s BMW 3 Series lined up as the quicker earner.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 11pm

Also a repeat, going back to 3pm’s episode: Derek picks up a Morgan sports car with a pop-music connection, a WWII ambulance turns up at Thornton-le-Dale, and a Ford Model T needs a new home.

What kind of shows are on Yesterday

Classic motoring and Bangers & Cash

Motoring is the growth area, and it is essentially one family: the Mathewsons of Thornton-le-Dale. Bangers & Cash produced Restoring Classics, and the channel has built a wider strand around them with Flipping Bangers and Find It, Fix It, Flog It.

Military and social history

Archive war documentaries are what the channel was founded on. The World at War still anchors a run of conflict and social history titles pulled from decades of British broadcast archive.

Natural history and engineering

The rest is natural history and engineering: A Perfect Planet, plus Abandoned Engineering and Secrets of the London Underground, which are really infrastructure documentaries wearing a history badge.

How to watch Yesterday

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find Yesterday across the main UK television platforms:

Yesterday is free on all of the above platforms, with no subscription required. Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat channel numbers can vary slightly by region and box, so your on-screen guide is the definitive source if these don’t match.

Streaming online

Yesterday streams live and free on u.co.uk and via the U app on smart TVs, iOS, Android and most streaming boxes. U is UKTV’s streaming service, formerly known as UKTV Play, and it’s free to sign up for. Most Yesterday shows are also available to catch up on demand once they’ve broadcast, though older archive series can come and go from the library.

Yesterday +1 and sister channels

Yesterday +1 runs the main schedule exactly an hour behind, on Freeview channel 26. Miss the start of a Bangers & Cash episode on the main channel and +1 lets you pick it up from close to the beginning an hour later instead.

Yesterday sits within the wider UKTV stable alongside Dave, Drama, Really and Alibi. If you enjoy Yesterday’s history and documentary output, Dave carries more panel shows and sitcoms, while Really leans towards true crime and paranormal programming.

Frequently asked questions

What channel is Yesterday on?

Freeview 27, Sky 155, Virgin Media 129 and Freesat 155. Yesterday +1 is on Freeview 26. All are free to watch.

What’s on Yesterday tonight?

Antiques Roadshow opens the evening at 6pm, followed by The Green Planet at 7pm. Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics airs at 8pm and Bangers & Cash at 9pm, then both repeat at 10pm and 11pm to close the night.

Is Yesterday free to watch?

Yes, on every major UK platform, with advertising breaks but no subscription fee.

Can I watch Yesterday online for free?

Yes, live and on demand via u.co.uk and the U app, UKTV’s free streaming service.

Verdict

Pound for pound, Yesterday is one of the better-value channels on Freeview. The archive documentaries it built its name on are still there and still worth your time. The Mathewsons pay for them.

Tuesday’s evening leans hard on the motoring strand: Antiques Roadshow and The Green Planet lead into Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics and Bangers & Cash at 8pm and 9pm, then both repeat through to midnight.

Related: Freeview Channel Guide | Dave TV Guide