BBC Four

Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.

The Great Outdoors was a British television sitcom. The show follows the friendships of a misfit rambling club in Southern England in which ...

Jim Al-Khalili traces the story of how the elements, the building blocks that make up our entire world, were discovered and mapped.

Lost Kingdoms of Africa is a British television documentary series. It is produced by the BBC. It describes the pre-colonial history of Africa. ...

The fiendishly difficult quiz show in which two teams of three contestants have to find the connection between seemingly unrelated clues, where ...

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain’s social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly ...

Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10’s policy enforcer and ...

Dramatisation of the colourful memoirs of the late Conservative MP.

Two-part documentary in which Jonathan Meades makes the case for 20th-century concrete Brutalist architecture in an homage to a style that he ...

Series tracking down lost, hidden, and misattributed paintings from local museums and galleries across Britain.

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

Bushcraft expert and survivalist Ray Mears explores the awe-inspiring landscape of that shaped the story of the Wild West. … Discover how ...

Darkly comic series about life on a hospital ward and a nursing team who have to get on with the job despite challenges thrown up by the modern NHS.

Your monthly journey through the fascinating world of space and astronomy with the latest thinking on what’s out there in space and what ...