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

Published: 24 August 2026

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 daytime runs an Abandoned Engineering double, a Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics pairing and an Antiques Roadshow double at midday, and several of those episodes resurface in the evening: the same Antiques Roadshow repeats at 6pm and the 2pm and 3pm Bangers & Cash episodes come round again at 10pm and 11pm. Tonight’s primetime otherwise belongs to the motoring strand outright — four consecutive hours of Bangers & Cash, from Restoring Classics at 8pm through to the main show at 9pm, 10pm and 11pm. Full breakdown below.

Yesterday Schedule: Tuesday 25 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Yesterday schedule for Tuesday 25 August 2026, on Freeview 27.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Yesterday today

Tuesday’s schedule opens just after midnight with Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics, followed by Find It, Fix It, Flog It at 1am and Abandoned Engineering at 2am, before just over three hours of teleshopping fill the small hours from 3am.

Two more episodes of Abandoned Engineering run from 6:10am, then Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics takes the 8am and 9am hours with a pair of episodes. Secret Nazi Bases and The World at War carry the schedule through mid-morning, taking it up to midday.

Antiques Roadshow settles in for a double from midday, before Bangers & Cash repeats that same pairing structure in the early afternoon with two episodes from 2pm. Secret Nazi Bases and The World at War repeat themselves from 4pm, and by 6pm Antiques Roadshow is back on screen — the same Chenies Manor episode shown at noon, not a new one — ahead of an evening built almost entirely around the Bangers & Cash strand.

Yesterday tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Yesterday primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 25 August 2026. It’s a two-programme evening in practice: an hour of natural history, then four straight hours of the Bangers & Cash strand from 8pm to midnight.

Antiques Roadshow — Yesterday, 6pm

Antiques Roadshow opens the evening with a second helping of Chenies Manor in Buckinghamshire (series 37) — the same edition the channel already ran at midday, not a fresh one.

Blue Planet — Yesterday, 7pm

David Attenborough’s Blue Planet moves on to Tidal Seas, looking at how the pull of the moon reshapes coastlines and dictates feeding time for everything from crabs to wading birds.

Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics — Yesterday, 8pm

Restoring Classics opens the night’s motoring block. Paul Smith’s Mini heads off to marque specialist Mini Sport for the kind of detailed work the main show rarely has time to dwell on.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 9pm

Derek Mathewson drives out to a grand country estate and comes back with three classics from the one visit, headlined by an Aston Martin DB6 and a BMW 2002.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 10pm and 11pm

The strand rounds off the night with two more hours, but neither is new: both are the same episodes Yesterday already showed at 2pm and 3pm this afternoon.

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 repeats at 6pm, the same Chenies Manor episode shown at noon, followed by Blue Planet’s Tidal Seas at 7pm. From 8pm the night turns over to Bangers & Cash: an hour of Restoring Classics, then three more hours of the main show at 9pm, 10pm and 11pm — though the last two repeat episodes already shown earlier in the afternoon.

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.

Tonight leans hard into that strength: four consecutive hours of Bangers & Cash from 8pm, more airtime than any other slot on the channel gets in a night. Some of it is repetition — the 6pm Antiques Roadshow is the same episode shown at midday, and the 10pm and 11pm Bangers & Cash instalments repeat the afternoon’s 2pm and 3pm episodes — but the 8pm Restoring Classics and 9pm main-show episodes are both new, and the estate pickup at 9pm is the stronger reason to watch live rather than catch up later.

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