2024-05-05 00:40:00
Rick Stein visits the fascinating city of Palermo in northern Sicily. Like a vibrant carpet, the city is patterned with echoes of Arab, north African, French, Spanish and Italian influences, making its cuisine unique and irresistible.
2024-05-05 01:40:00
Bruce Parry explores the wealth of the Amazon rainforest. He parties with the millionaires of Manaus, the Amazon's biggest city, he lives and works with illegal gold miners seeking their fortune, and he sleeps in the canopy with scientists.
2024-05-05 02:40:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-05 04:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-05 05:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-05 09:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-05 13:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-05 17:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-05 17:58:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-05 18:00:00
Michael Palin travels to France in search of the Mediterranean view captured by his favourite artist: Scotland's Anne Redpath.
2024-05-05 18:30:00
Michael Palin explores the lives and paintings of four Scottish artists known as the Colourists: John Duncan Fergusson, George Leslie Hunter, Samuel John Peploe and Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell.
2024-05-05 19:30:00
Actor, comedian, presenter and writer Sir Michael Palin talks to John Wilson about his formative creative influences.
2024-05-05 20:00:00
Michael Palin goes on a very different adventure exploring the secretive life of Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershoi. Leaving few personal clues behind on his death, Michael works hard to reveal the man behind the mystery.
2024-05-05 21:00:00
An elderly couple realize their dream of retiring to the seaside in Morecambe, only to find that making a life in their new home is much harder than they expected.
2024-05-05 22:10:00
An independent old lady suffers a fall that decides her future.
2024-05-05 22:45:00
A minor actress lands a role in a video set on a yacht, but things are not as they seem.
2024-05-05 23:20:00
Sir Nicholas Hytner interviews living legend and playwright Alan Bennett on the eve of his 80th birthday. Ranging across 40 years of his work for stage, television and cinema, it is the first time these long term collaborators have engaged in a full-length debate on television about the art of what they do.
2024-05-06 00:20:00
Michael Palin explores the lives and paintings of four Scottish artists known as the Colourists: John Duncan Fergusson, George Leslie Hunter, Samuel John Peploe and Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell.
2024-05-06 01:20:00
Harlem-born artist, author and activist Faith Ringgold, painted some of the most truthful and empowering representations of African Americans during the 60's and 70's civil rights and women's movements.
2024-05-06 02:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-06 04:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-06 05:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-06 09:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-06 13:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-06 17:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-06 17:58:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-06 18:00:00
A group of sea anglers from Zimbabwe chance their hand in the rolling seas off the coast of northern Yorkshire. On their annual day trip from Whitby, they find themselves all at sea.
2024-05-06 18:15:00
Rick Stein crosses Mexico from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean, travelling through the spectacular Copper Canyon and Sierra Madre mountains. His journey ends in Mexico City, where he is driven around in an art deco VW Beetle.
2024-05-06 19:05:00
Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey and observes the comings and goings.
2024-05-06 20:00:00
In Cardiff, a fake restoration reveals a Madonna. Emma Dabiri explores the story of the two Welsh sisters who donated the work while Bendor Grosvenor looks for proof of a link with Botticelli.
2024-05-06 21:00:00
Kenneth Clarke explores the Germany of Albrecht Durer and Martin Luther, the invention of the printing press, the work of Erasmus, the France of Montaigne, and the Elizabethan England of Shakespeare.
2024-05-06 21:50:00
Kenneth Clark visits Rome in search of grandeur and finds a city that gave rise to Michelangelo, Bernini, and the Counter-Reformation when the Church of Rome became an influential force in the Baroque era.
2024-05-06 22:40:00
The story of Dublin-born Peter Rice, widely regarded as the most distinguished structural engineer of the late 20th century, and his massive impact on modern architecture. Without his innovations in material and design, along with his collaboration with the leading architects of his time, some of the most recognisable architectural buildings in the world would not have been possible.
2024-05-06 23:40:00
Rick Stein crosses Mexico from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean, travelling through the spectacular Copper Canyon and Sierra Madre mountains. His journey ends in Mexico City, where he is driven around in an art deco VW Beetle.
2024-05-07 00:30:00
Alan Bennett goes behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey and observes the comings and goings.
2024-05-07 01:30:00
In Cardiff, a fake restoration reveals a Madonna. Emma Dabiri explores the story of the two Welsh sisters who donated the work while Bendor Grosvenor looks for proof of a link with Botticelli.
2024-05-07 02:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-07 04:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-07 08:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-07 12:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-07 16:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-07 17:58:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-07 18:00:00
Find Britain's only colony of scorpions and Nick Crane finds out why the sea is salty.
2024-05-07 18:10:00
Nick Hancock attempts to cross Cuba but soon changes his plans when Hurricane George hits the country. Embarking on an unexpected adventure, he meets boxers, ballet dancers, faded divas, fickle dolphins and a fascinating array of failed revolutionaries.
2024-05-07 19:00:00
Richard is facing a serious crisis in his business empire and has no time for the daily battle with Audrey over the running of the 400 year-old estate. In the end, it is Audrey who gets him out a fix - or her uncle, to be precise.
2024-05-07 19:30:00
The kids decide that Beryl needs a life makeover and plan a new career for her. However, Arthur has other ideas!
2024-05-07 20:00:00
Documentary telling the dramatic story of the WWII Arctic convoy PQ17, which became one of the biggest naval disasters of the 20th century.
2024-05-07 21:00:00
The publication of Salman Rushdie's novel `The Satanic Verses' in 1988 sparked a culture war in Britain between those in the Muslim community who considered the book blasphemous and called for the book to be banned and those defending it as an expression of freedom of speech.
2024-05-07 22:00:00
After the immediate celebration of 1968's successful Apollo 8 mission, underlying questions about the space programme emerged with new intensity as politicised young Americans challenged the nation's priorities. NASA pushed brashly forward. After the lunar orbit, competition escalated among the training astronauts. Who would be chosen for the first moon landing? In January 1969, NASA ended months of speculation and announced the crew for Apollo 11.
2024-05-07 22:50:00
Viewers from around the world watched the flickering black-and-white footage from a camera placed on the module showing Armstrong gingerly stepping down the ladder. Transparent, ghostly images of the suited figures projected back to Earth.
2024-05-07 23:40:00
Documentary telling the dramatic story of the WWII Arctic convoy PQ17, which became one of the biggest naval disasters of the 20th century.
2024-05-08 00:40:00
Nick Hancock attempts to cross Cuba but soon changes his plans when Hurricane George hits the country. Embarking on an unexpected adventure, he meets boxers, ballet dancers, faded divas, fickle dolphins and a fascinating array of failed revolutionaries.
2024-05-08 01:30:00
Michael Palin goes on a very different adventure, exploring the secretive life of Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershoi. Leaving few personal clues behind on his death, Michael works hard to reveal the man behind the mystery.
2024-05-08 02:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-08 04:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-08 05:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-08 09:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-08 13:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-08 17:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-08 17:58:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-08 18:00:00
Barra Best discovers County Down's version of Stonehenge, spends a day at the races and hears about a battle of the railways to control Newcastle's growth as a tourist resort.
2024-05-08 18:30:00
Sir David Attenborough presents this landmark documentary which brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the lost world of the very last days of the dinosaurs. Searching in the hills of North Dakota, paleontologist Robert DePalma makes an incredible discovery in a prehistoric graveyard known as Tanis - fossilised creatures, astonishingly well-preserved like the bodies found at Pompeii.
2024-05-08 20:00:00
In celebration of his 90th birthday, Sir David Attenborough talks to broadcaster Kirsty Young about his life and career, the inspiring people he has met, the extraordinary journeys he has made, and the remarkable animal encounters he has had across the globe.
2024-05-08 21:00:00
Peter Egan looks back on the BBC's 1987 adaptation of John le Carre's `A Perfect Spy', one of the writer's most acclaimed novels, dramatised a year after the book's initial publication.
2024-05-08 21:15:00
Con man Rick T Pym raises his young son Magnus to be an accomplice in his schemes.
2024-05-08 22:10:00
Magnus, sent on an errand to Switzerland, meets two men who will be important in his life as a spy as he finds himself recruited to observe politically active left-wing students.
2024-05-08 23:05:00
In the years between 1953 and 1959, Magnus betrays his father, Rick, by ruining his political ambitions before joining the army and renewing his acquaintance with Axel.
2024-05-09 00:00:00
In celebration of his 90th birthday, Sir David Attenborough talks to broadcaster Kirsty Young about his life and career, the inspiring people he has met, the extraordinary journeys he has made, and the remarkable animal encounters he has had across the globe.
2024-05-09 01:00:00
Sir David Attenborough presents this landmark documentary which brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the lost world of the very last days of the dinosaurs. Searching in the hills of North Dakota, paleontologist Robert DePalma makes an incredible discovery in a prehistoric graveyard known as Tanis - fossilised creatures, astonishingly well-preserved like the bodies found at Pompeii.
2024-05-09 02:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-09 04:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-09 08:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-09 12:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-09 16:30:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-09 17:58:00
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
2024-05-09 18:00:00
Neil Oliver becomes a silent movie director as he films a scene from `The Mayor of Casterbridge' using an antique camera, to reveal how pioneers in Brighton taught the world to make movies long before Hollywood shot a frame.
2024-05-09 18:10:00
Hollywood superstar Danny Glover travels along the oldest line in Africa when he takes the Bamako Express from St Louis on the coast of Senegal to Bamako in poverty-stricken Mali. During the course of his journey, he encounters the acclaimed musician Youssou N'Dour, the Senegalese film director Sembene Ousmane and one of the world's oldest and most complex tribal cultures.
2024-05-09 19:00:00
Author, actor, humorist and playwright Alan Bennett talks to Mark Lawson about his life and career.
2024-05-09 20:00:00
The true story of Miss Shepherd, an eccentric woman of uncertain origins, who `temporarily' parked her broken-down van in writer Alan Bennett's London driveway, and proceeded to live there for the next 15 years.
2024-05-09 21:40:00
A vicar's wife finds a vision of God at the local off-licence.
2024-05-09 22:30:00
Violet's long life includes two telegrams, both from the monarch. Awaiting the second, she remembers the first.
2024-05-09 23:00:00
A series of Alan Bennett's much-loved monologues, which deal with issues such as death, isolation, and guilt.
2024-05-09 23:45:00
Michael Parkinson in conversation with Elton John, Robbie Williams, Kiki Dee and Ronan Keating.