Freeview 9 · Sky 116 · 56 programmes this week
BBC Four is the BBC's arts, culture and documentary channel. It broadcasts music performances, archive television, history documentaries and international drama. Available on Freeview and Sky. Much of its content is also available on BBC iPlayer.
Freeview 9 · Sky 116
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Keeping Up Appearances is a BBC sitcom that follows Patricia Routledge’s Hyacinth Bucket as she stages a candle‑light supper to impress her neighbour Emmet with a song, only for everything to go pear…
Timothy Lumsden (Ronnie Corbett) finally gets a night off when his parents head off on a second honeymoon, so he throws a party hoping to charm Veronica Straddles. With mum Phyllis (Barbara Lott) and…
Legendary ex‑world champion Steve Davis returns to Sheffield’s Crucible for the 40th anniversary of the World Snooker Championship. He talks with snooker greats Dennis Taylor, Stephen Hendry and Jimm…
The schedule kicks off at 7 pm, broadcast in HD.
Live coverage of day 2 of the World Snooker Championship from the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. The world's best cueists face off in the early rounds, delivering tense frames and possible upsets. Id…
Northern Soul at the Proms is a one‑off BBC Proms concert that brings the raw 60s‑70s American soul that sparked an all‑night dance craze in the North up to the Royal Albert Hall. Curated by radio gu…
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Discovering the Music of Antiquity follows musical historians as they piece together a 2,400‑year‑old Greek score found in the Louvre, credited to Carcinus, a composer Aristotle once mentioned. Using…
Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India to trace the birth of the Buddha’s ideas and how his teachings reshaped thinking over the centuries. She connects the Buddha with thinkers such as Socrates a…
Richard E. Grant wanders the French Côte d’Azur, tracing the lives and loves of Cézanne, Monet, Renoir and Matisse as they turned the Riviera into a painter’s playground. The series has a visual tour…
Live coverage of day 3 of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. The top players return to the green baize, each tries to gain an edge as the knockout stages heat up. Wa…
Archaeologist Dr Fraser Hunter takes you from the first Roman camps in Scotland to the siege at Burnswark, covering three centuries of conflict. He explains how the Romans, at the height of their pow…
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Art That Made Us dives into the 16th‑century religious upheaval and the bold, sometimes shocking art it produced. The BBC Two documentary brings together the works and ideas that reshaped Britain, wi…
Art historians Dr Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke zip around Amsterdam, pointing out Rembrandt’s masterpieces at the Rijksmuseum, the cheeky scenes of Jan Steen and the city’s oldest surviving Jewi…
Dallas Campbell investigates how the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun died. He uses CT scans and DNA analysis on the fragile remains. The film shows the first clear image of the king’s corpse and presents a t…
"Art That Made Us" looks at how the 16th‑century religious upheaval sparked radical art. It brings together the work of key artists and the social context, with plenty of images that some might find …
The schedule kicks off at 7 pm, broadcast in HD.
Live coverage of day 4 of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. Watch the world’s best players face off in tense, high‑skill matches. All in crisp HD.
Speechless: The Pendulum Swings is the second half of a Storyville documentary about the freedom‑of‑speech battles on US university campuses. It follows students, faculty and activists as they deal w…
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Horizon takes you to Iceland, where a crew of volcanologists compare Earth’s eruptions with the massive volcanoes on Mars, Jupiter’s moon Io and Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. NASA footage and computer…
The Houdini Myth is a 48‑minute Timewatch documentary that looks at the legendary escapologist’s huge early‑20th‑century appeal. It mixes newly restored footage of Houdini with interviews from histor…
Jim Al‑Khalili takes you into the remote Sellafield site, the UK’s most controversial nuclear complex, and shows what really goes on behind its high‑security doors. He gets up close with deadly subst…
The schedule kicks off at 7 pm, broadcast in HD.
Day five of the World Snooker Championship is live from the Crucible in Sheffield. Hazel Irvine, Seema Jaswal, Rishi Persad and Catrin Heledd host the BBC coverage. Legends such as Steve Davis, Steph…
This Life follows five young lawyers sharing a south‑London flat while they juggle new careers, love, jealousy and the occasional binge. The ensemble has Jack Davenport, Andrew Lincoln, Amita Dhiri, …
Concorde: A Supersonic Story is a 59‑minute documentary about the iconic supersonic airliner. Engineers, technicians and passengers recount their experiences. Sophie Okonedo narrates, and the film in…
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Horizon takes you to Iceland, where a crew of volcanologists compare Earth’s eruptions with the massive volcanoes on Mars, Jupiter’s moon Io and Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. NASA footage and computer…
Concorde: A Supersonic Story is a 59‑minute documentary about the most glamorous jet ever built, told by the people who designed, maintained and flew it. Sophie Okonedo narrates, and engineers, fligh…
The schedule kicks off at 7 pm, broadcast in HD.
Day 6 of the World Snooker Championship is on at Sheffield’s Crucible. The action is live on BBC One, Two and Four. Hazel Irvine, Seema Jaswal, Rishi Persad and Catrin Heledd host the coverage. Analy…
A puritan police sergeant arrives on a remote Scottish isle to find a missing girl, but the pagan locals claim she never existed. The film stars Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento and Br…