BBC Four TV Shows

Classic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage through space and time....

What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making some of the most popular and influential programs of all time....

A life-changing moment is captured in six powerful, dramatic monologues. Written, directed and performed by disabled people and curated by Mat Fraser....

Marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 1770, a documentary series that focuses on the real, complex and often difficult man behind the great composer....

Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed goes on a remarkable journey to places rarely seen, as she travels through Iran, telling the story of a complex and fascinating people, cult...

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo host a weekly guide to the best (and worst) of streaming culture in the 21st century, across film and premium television....

Art historian Waldemar Januszczak uncovers the secret meanings hidden within some of the greatest paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat ....

Documentary series in which art historian James Fox explores how the power of images has transformed the modern world....

Historian Lucy Worsley debunks popular myths and royal as well as anti-royal propaganda about key events from British royal history including the English Reformation, the attack of...

The story of quantum entanglement, perhaps the strangest concept in science. Mind-bending concepts and brilliant experiments lead us to a profound new understanding of reality....

A candid look at what life was really like for those living in, and under Hitler's Swastika - at home - and abroad, a record not only of what they saw, but of what they knew....

Travelling through England’s landscapes, towns and villages, Robbie Cumming offers a personal take on life aboard his narrowboat the Naughty Lass....

In a landmark 7-part series, Spotlight - Northern Ireland’s leading team of investigative journalists - reveal important new discoveries about the conflict known as the Troubles, i...

Historian Lisa Hilton discovers how, in just fifty tempestuous days, Charles I’s rule collapsed, laying the foundations for civil war, the loss of royal power and, ultimately, the ...

Offers a reappraisal of "yacht rock", a critically neglected era of music popularized by a boom in FM radio stations and its smooth sound. The gleaming yacht sound was, in part, al...

Composer Soumik Datta travels around India exploring the country's rich and diverse culture and history through its music....

The case of the Yorkshire Ripper is re-examined by film-maker Liza Williams....

James May follows a year inside Hornby Hobbies – an iconic British toymaker on the brink of collapse....

British historian Lucy Worsley reveals how some of the biggest moments in US history are actually fibs and stories concocted by pop culture, politics and national(istic) pride....

Join Grace Dent on a televisual trip back in time....

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer provide songs, sketches and silliness in buckets....

Archaeologist Ben Robinson explores the story of the village from Norman times to the present day. With ancient churches, castles, market places and cottages, the English village ...

Comedy drama that shines a light on the day-to-day life of a family looking after their severely learning disabled girl, Rosie....

Documentary series in which Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. Is it invented like a language or is it discovered and part of the fabric of the universe?...

Hannah Fry takes a spectacular look at the science of size by imagining a parallel world in which everything is made bigger or smaller....

Mark Kermode reveals the film-making tricks and techniques behind classic movie genres, from romcoms to horrors....

Monologues inspired by women who have spoken out, challenged the status quo or made a stand – often at great personal cost....

In 1955 Ruth Ellis was the last woman hanged in Britain for the murder of her lover. In this investigative three-part series film-maker Gillian Pachter re-examines the case....

Historian Helen Castor presents a three-part docudrama piecing together the story of the woman who was the de facto Queen of England and Ireland for nine days in 1553....

A series of eight monologues set in the same pub over many years of gay history in response to the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act....

Stephen K. Amos and Susan Calman present a unique series in which LGBTQ people from across the UK talk about the objects that helped to define their lives over the past 50 years....

Dr James Fox looks at the art and culture of Japan....

Lucy Worsley explores how British history is a concoction of fibs and stories manipulated by whoever was in power at the time....

Professor Jim Al-Khalili shows how, by uncovering its secrets, scientists have used light to reveal the universe....

Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud....

When we look around our homes, sheds and garages we see an array of household objects that with one click of a button or twist of a knob will spring to life, and - most of the time...

Jim Al-Khalili tackles the greatest question in science - how the universe began. By recreating key experiments Jim unravels the mystery of science's creation story....

Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to tell the extraordinary story of the dynasty that ruled the country for more than three centuries - the Romanovs....

Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy - Buddha, Socrates and Confucius....

The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by unearthing the fortune of a life...

Brian Pern is an ageing rock star and former front-man of ground breaking progressive rock group Thotch. Like many artists of his age, rather than make new music, he spends more ti...

This documentary takes a look at some of the most horrible and despicable murders in modern British history. From Jack the Ripper in the 1880s to Agatha Christie's best known stori...

In this "entertaining medical series" (The Sunday Times, U.K.), Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and changed the course of human history. Unfolding o...

It's 1910 and we're in Banbury church hall at the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle. Margaret has been to London and discovered the Women's Suffrage movement so she decides they need ...

A military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw. A classic tale of spying, int...

A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers....

A series of films which ask what it means to live in poverty in the 21st Century....

Joe leaves working-class, industrial Dufton behind him and takes a job as senior audit clerk at the town hall in affluent Warley. He takes lodgings at the poshest part of the town ...

Detective Dirk Gently operates based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things....

A three-part series exploring how the British musical became a driving force behind musical theatre around the world — a tale of shows, daring, rivalries, talent and fortunes are s...