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

Published: 3 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. Friday’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 Barrington Court in Somerset at noon and again at 6pm, in primetime. Seven Worlds One Planet takes the 7pm hour, then Canal Boat Diaries runs two genuinely new episodes back to back at 8pm and 9pm — the only first showings left in primetime alongside the Attenborough hour. Bangers & Cash closes the night at 10pm and 11pm, but both of those slots repeat the 2pm and 3pm episodes shown earlier that afternoon. Full breakdown below.

Yesterday Schedule: Friday 4 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Yesterday schedule for Friday 4 September 2026, on Freeview 27.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Yesterday today

Friday’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.

Fiona Bruce’s team sets up shop at midday inside Barrington Court, the National Trust house in Somerset, where the standout items on the valuation table are a nineteenth-century revolver rumoured to have once belonged to Buffalo Bill and a sizeable haul of vintage chocolate moulds. By 1pm the Roadshow has relocated south-west to Ashton Court on the edge of Bristol, where the queue produces a Banksy piece lifted straight off a wall, a delicately carved nautilus shell, and a clockwork figure whose party trick is puffing on a cigarette. Bangers & Cash returns at 2pm and 3pm: first Derek and Paul heading to Leeds on a father-and-son road trip for a VW Golf Cabriolet and a Lotus Elite, then a Jaguar Challenger XJ6 that turns out to be fooling the punters — a fibreglass replica built from an E-Type mould — 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 Barrington Court 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, Friday 4 September 2026. Most of it is already familiar: only Seven Worlds One Planet at 7pm and the back-to-back Canal Boat Diaries at 8pm and 9pm are first showings. The 6pm Antiques Roadshow and both Bangers & Cash slots at 10pm and 11pm have already aired earlier the same day.

Antiques Roadshow — Yesterday, 6pm

Antiques Roadshow (series 37, episode 23) gets a second outing at 6pm — it’s the same Barrington Court visit shown at noon, so nothing here is new for anyone who caught it earlier.

Seven Worlds One Planet — Yesterday, 7pm

A genuine first showing: Seven Worlds One Planet (series 1, episode 7) turns David Attenborough’s globe-spanning survey toward Africa, tracking how its wildlife copes across such widely different terrain.

Canal Boat Diaries — Yesterday, 8pm

Also new tonight, Canal Boat Diaries (series 6, episode 6) follows Robbie steering the narrowboat through a weed-clogged stretch of the Basingstoke Canal.

Canal Boat Diaries — Yesterday, 9pm

The second new episode of the evening, Canal Boat Diaries (series 6, episode 7) picks up straight after, with Robbie pulling in to moor for the night near Hampton Court Palace.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 10pm

Bangers & Cash (series 8, episode 1) closes out the night with a repeat — the same episode shown at 2pm, in which Derek and Paul make a father-and-son trip to Leeds chasing a VW Golf Cabriolet and a Lotus Elite.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 11pm

Bangers & Cash (series 8, episode 2) at 11pm is also a repeat, of the 3pm edition built around a Jaguar Challenger XJ6 that isn’t what it seems — a fibreglass replica cast from an E-Type mould.

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 Barrington Court episode at 6pm, then Seven Worlds One Planet airs at 7pm. From 8pm it’s two consecutive new episodes of Canal Boat Diaries, Robbie’s narrowboat battling the Basingstoke Canal and then mooring by Hampton Court Palace. 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 Barrington Court 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 7pm Seven Worlds One Planet followed by back-to-back Canal Boat Diaries at 8pm and 9pm, sandwiched between a late slate that has already aired once already today.

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