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

Published: 31 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 schedule doubles up three separate strands across the day: Rise of the Nazis at 10am and 4pm, The World at War at 11am and 5pm, and the same Antiques Roadshow visit to Belton House at noon and again at 6pm. Seven Worlds One Planet takes the 7pm hour, then the evening turns into four hours of the Bangers & Cash franchise from three different points in its run — Restoring Classics at 8pm, a new episode at 9pm, and two more at 10pm and 11pm that repeat the 2pm and 3pm showings from earlier the same day. Full breakdown below.

Yesterday Schedule: Tuesday 1 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Yesterday schedule for Tuesday 1 September 2026, on Freeview 27.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Yesterday today

Tuesday’s schedule opens with Bangers & Cash at midnight and Find It, Fix It, Flog It at 1am, before Abandoned Engineering takes 2am and teleshopping fills the small hours through to just after 6am.

The Architecture the Railways Built runs its opening two episodes back to back at 6:10am and 7:10am, then Bangers & Cash holds 8am and 9am with a pair of earlier-series episodes, before Rise of the Nazis at 10am and The World at War at 11am — the first of two showings each.

Antiques Roadshow opens the afternoon at midday with its Belton House visit, followed by a second Belton House episode at 1pm. Bangers & Cash returns at 2pm and 3pm with a Dutch DAF 66 landing at the North Yorkshire showroom, then an E-Type dating from 1971 alongside a Morgan three-wheeler built in 1933 — the same two episodes repeated at 10pm and 11pm tonight. Rise of the Nazis and The World at War repeat at 4pm and 5pm respectively, and Antiques Roadshow closes out the early evening at 6pm, repeating the same Belton House episode shown at midday, before Seven Worlds One Planet takes the 7pm hour.

Yesterday tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Yesterday primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 1 September 2026.

Antiques Roadshow — Yesterday, 6pm

Antiques Roadshow takes the 6pm slot with its visit to Belton House in Lincolnshire (series 37, episode 17) — a repeat of the same channel’s noon showing.

Seven Worlds One Planet — Yesterday, 7pm

Episode 4 of the Attenborough series takes Australia as its continent, and leans on how strange the survival strategies get there: kangaroos and wombats riding out snowstorms, desert reptiles that drink through their skin.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 8pm to midnight

Four hours of the Bangers & Cash franchise close the night, but it isn’t one continuous run. Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics at 8pm is a separate spin-off (series 7, episode 3), in which the restoration team try to show restraint with a Manta while a 205 GTI stirs up B-road memories for a mechanic who once owned one, and 9pm brings a fresh instalment of the flagship show (series 14, episode 6, headlined by a Mk1 Astra GTE, a Trojan and a Lambretta). The 10pm and 11pm hours are then straight repeats of the 2pm and 3pm episodes shown earlier the same day: a DAF 66 arriving in daffodil yellow, then a collection run for an E-Type from 1971 and a Morgan three-wheeler dating to 1933.

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 its Belton House episode at 6pm, then Seven Worlds One Planet airs at 7pm. From 8pm it’s four hours of the Bangers & Cash franchise, but not one run: Restoring Classics at 8pm is a separate spin-off, 9pm is a new flagship episode, and 10pm and 11pm repeat the 2pm and 3pm episodes shown earlier the same day.

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 on repetition more than most: three separate strands air twice apiece before primetime even starts, and the 10pm and 11pm Bangers & Cash slots repeat episodes already shown at 2pm and 3pm. The evening is genuinely fresh for only two of its four Bangers & Cash hours — the 8pm Restoring Classics spin-off and the 9pm flagship episode — which makes the “four hours of Bangers & Cash” billing more generous than the schedule earns.

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