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

Yesterday is UKTV’s history and heritage channel, mixing archive documentaries, military history and natural history with a growing slate of classic motoring shows. BBC Studios has owned it outright through UKTV since 2019, and it’s free with no subscription required. Tuesday’s evening moves from wildlife to cars and stays there, with the Mathewson family holding the last four hours of the schedule between two different Bangers & Cash strands.

Yesterday Schedule: Tuesday 11 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Yesterday schedule for Tuesday 11 August 2026, on Freeview 27.

What’s on Yesterday today

The overnight run opens with a Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics repeat at midnight, followed by Find It, Fix It, Flog It at 1am and Abandoned Engineering at 2am, before three hours of Teleshopping take over from 3am.

Abandoned Engineering returns from 6:10am with cases on Castel Volturno and Camp Hero, ahead of a Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics double covering a Golf GTI Convertible and a Renault Clio Williams 2. Secret Nazi Bases and Hitler: Countdown to War both get a late-morning outing, then repeat again in the late afternoon.

The middle of the day belongs to Antiques Roadshow, screened at midday and again at 1pm, followed by two runs of Bangers & Cash. The evening reuses a good deal of this: the 6pm Antiques Roadshow is the same edition shown at midday, and the 10pm and 11pm Bangers & Cash episodes are the two that already ran that afternoon.

Yesterday tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Yesterday primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 11 August 2026.

Antiques Roadshow — Yesterday, 6pm

Antiques Roadshow takes the 6pm slot with a repeat filmed at Norwich’s Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (series 36, episode 13), where the day’s finds include the death mask of William Gladstone.

A Perfect Planet — Yesterday, 7pm

At 7pm, it’s A Perfect Planet (series 1, episode 2), looking at how life on Earth has adapted to the sun’s uneven distribution of light and heat across the seasons.

Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics — Yesterday, 8pm

The 8pm hour belongs to Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics (series 6, episode 5). The Mathewsons take on a Subaru pick-up this time, and getting hold of the parts to finish it proves harder than expected.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 9pm, 10pm & 11pm

The main Bangers & Cash strand fills the last three hours of the night. At 9pm (series 14, episode 3), Derek heads to Cambridgeshire for a car built in Britain in the 1950s for the American market. The 10pm and 11pm episodes are repeats already shown earlier in the afternoon: a haul of Austin Mini Metros and a Fiat 850 Coupe at 10pm (series 5, episode 10), then at 11pm (series 5, episode 11), a former Falklands War vehicle turns up — a Mercedes G-Wagon once used by the Argentinian military.

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?

It’s a car-heavy evening built mostly from repeats: Antiques Roadshow at 6pm and A Perfect Planet at 7pm lead into Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics at 8pm, then the main Bangers & Cash strand runs three episodes back to back from 9pm to midnight, with the last two repeating that afternoon’s editions.

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 remains one of the better-value channels on Freeview. The archive documentaries that built its reputation are still on air, and Bangers & Cash has grown into the channel’s biggest draw since it began in 2019.

Tuesday’s evening leans on that strength almost entirely. Antiques Roadshow and A Perfect Planet clear the way for four straight hours of the Mathewsons, split between the Restoring Classics spin-off at 8pm and three episodes of the original series taking the night through to midnight.

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