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

Published: 1 September 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. Wednesday’s schedule repeats 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 Lowther Castle at noon and again at 6pm, in primetime. Seven Worlds One Planet takes the 7pm hour, Michael Palin revisits his own Himalaya journey at 8pm, and Explore with Simon Reeve closes out the evening’s fresh programming at 9pm — before Bangers & Cash returns at 10pm and 11pm with the same two episodes already shown at 2pm and 3pm that afternoon. Full breakdown below.

Yesterday Schedule: Wednesday 2 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Yesterday schedule for Wednesday 2 September 2026, on Freeview 27.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Yesterday today

Wednesday’s schedule opens with Bangers & Cash at midnight and Find It, Fix It, Flog It at 1am, before The Architecture the Railways Built 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 first visit to Lowther Castle in Cumbria, followed by a second Lowther Castle episode at 1pm. Bangers & Cash returns at 2pm and 3pm, with a Subaru Impreza and a Ford Escort RS Cosworth arriving from North Wales first, then a rare Honda N600 and an original RAC Bedford van collected in Scotland — 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 first Lowther Castle 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, Wednesday 2 September 2026.

Antiques Roadshow — Yesterday, 6pm

Antiques Roadshow returns to Lowther Castle in Cumbria for a second airing of the episode first shown at noon (series 37, episode 19) — the same visit that turned up a 1920s cosmetics case, an oddly-shaped letterbox and a taxidermy dog once owned by titled gentry.

Seven Worlds One Planet — Yesterday, 7pm

Seven Worlds One Planet lands in Europe for its fifth episode (series 1), with David Attenborough narrating wolves that have taken to prowling the edges of Italian mountain villages and lynx quietly re-establishing themselves in Spanish forests.

Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime — Yesterday, 8pm

The 8pm hour belongs to Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime (series 2, episode 2).

Explore with Simon Reeve — Yesterday, 9pm

Explore with Simon Reeve heads to East Africa, tracking the vast crack in the earth’s surface that runs the length of the continent from north to south and stopping off at a US military base along the way.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 10pm

Bangers & Cash (series 7, episode 12, “Subaru Impreza”) is a straight repeat of the 2pm showing earlier the same day, not a new episode — the 10pm and 11pm hours simply replay that afternoon’s pair back to back.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 11pm

The 11pm hour belongs to Bangers & Cash (series 7, episode 13).

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 first Lowther Castle episode at 6pm, then Seven Worlds One Planet airs at 7pm. From 8pm it’s Michael Palin: Travels of a Lifetime, followed by Explore with Simon Reeve at 9pm. Bangers & Cash closes the night at 10pm and 11pm, but both slots repeat the 2pm and 3pm episodes shown earlier that 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: Rise of the Nazis, The World at War and Antiques Roadshow all air twice apiece before primetime even starts, and Antiques Roadshow gets a third outing at 6pm, in primetime, repeating the same Lowther Castle episode shown at noon. The 10pm and 11pm Bangers & Cash slots are straight repeats too, of the 2pm and 3pm episodes shown earlier the same day. What’s actually new tonight is a three-hour run from 7pm — Seven Worlds One Planet, Michael Palin revisiting his own Himalaya journey, and Explore with Simon Reeve — sitting in the middle of an evening where the hours either side of it have already been on once already that day.

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