1. Plastic Surgery Pioneers: Cambridge Military Hospital

Michael visits the beautiful, forbidding and now abandoned military hospital in the garrison town of Aldershot to uncover the pioneering work of reconstructive surgeons.

2. Local Heroes: Manchester Fire Station

In Manchester, Michael ventures inside the London Road Fire Station, which was decommissioned in 1986 after 80 years' service.

3. Countdown to WW3

Michael Portillo visits a top-secret Cold War stronghold, just a mile from the Cambridge campus where he spent his university years. The bunker, formerly known as RSG-4, was built in 1953 to house 300 local government officials from Cambridgeshire in the event of a nuclear attack. The former politician is also given access to the decommissioned Soviet nuclear submarine U-475 Black Widow - currently moored at Strood on the River Medway - revealing how close the world came to a full-scale nuclear war.

4. The Palace of Dreams

The New Victoria in Bradford was Britain's first cinema.