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106: BBC FOUR HD

Fri Feb 20
This is BBC Four

Today 05:30 - 18:58

Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Today 18:58 - 19:00

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

TOTP: 1999

Today 19:00 - 19:30

Jayne Middlemiss presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 16 April 1999 and featuring Phats & Small, TLC, The Cranberries, New Radicals and Martine McCutcheon. [S]

TOTP: 1999

Today 19:30 - 20:00

Gail Porter presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 23 April 1999 and featuring Whitney Houston, Phats & Small, Electronic, Honeyz, Suede, TLC and Martine McCutcheon. [S]

TOTP: 1980

Today 20:00 - 20:35

Peter Powell presents the pop chart programme, featuring Shakin' Stevens, Blondie, The Beat, The Buggles, The Tourists, Fern Kinney, The Ramones, Iron Maiden and Kenny Rogers. [S]

TOTP: 1986

Today 20:35 - 21:05

Janice Long and Mike Read present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 20 February 1986. Featuring Paul Hardcastle, Diana Ross, Depeche Mode and Public Image Limited. [S]

Gladys Knight at the BBC

Today 21:05 - 22:05

A look through the BBC archives for moment after moment from the 'empress of soul', Gladys Knight, including songs like Baby Don't Change Your Mind and The Way We Were. [S] [HD]

Gladys Knight & The Pips in Concert

Today 22:05 - 22:40

The first of two concerts recorded at The New London Theatre. Included in this programme are some of the group's early hits. [S]

Gladys Knight & The Pips in Concert

Today 22:40 - 23:15

The second of two concerts recorded at The New London Theatre. Included in this programme are some of their more recent hits. [S]

Queens of Soul

Today 23:15 - 00:15

Performances by legendary female soul singers including Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, Randy Crawford, Angie Stone, Mary J Blige, Beyonce and many more. [S]

Sat Feb 21
TOTP: 1999

Tomorrow 00:15 - 00:45

Jayne Middlemiss presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 16 April 1999 and featuring Phats & Small, TLC, The Cranberries, New Radicals and Martine McCutcheon. [S]

TOTP: 1999

Tomorrow 00:45 - 01:15

Gail Porter presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 23 April 1999 and featuring Whitney Houston, Phats & Small, Electronic, Honeyz, Suede, TLC and Martine McCutcheon. [S]

TOTP: 1980

Tomorrow 01:15 - 01:50

Peter Powell presents the pop chart programme, featuring Shakin' Stevens, Blondie, The Beat, The Buggles, The Tourists, Fern Kinney, The Ramones, Iron Maiden and Kenny Rogers. [S]

TOTP: 1986

Tomorrow 01:50 - 02:20

Janice Long and Mike Read present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 20 February 1986. Featuring Paul Hardcastle, Diana Ross, Depeche Mode and Public Image Limited. [S]

Gladys Knight at the BBC

Tomorrow 02:20 - 03:25

A look through the BBC archives for moment after moment from the 'empress of soul', Gladys Knight, including songs like Baby Don't Change Your Mind and The Way We Were. [S] [HD]

Gladys Knight & The Pips in Concert

Tomorrow 03:25 - 03:55

The first of two concerts recorded at The New London Theatre. Included in this programme are some of the group's early hits. [S]

This is BBC Four

Tomorrow 03:55 - 05:30

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Tomorrow 05:30 - 18:58

Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Tomorrow 18:58 - 19:00

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

Meet the Ancestors

Tomorrow 19:00 - 19:30

5/6. Julian Richards travels to the home of a couple who discovered that their bungalow was built over a 5th-century graveyard. [S]

The Good Old Days

Tomorrow 19:30 - 20:15

Leonard Sachs presents the old-time music hall show from the City Varieties Theatre. With Hylda Baker, Val Doonican, Richard Hearne and Robin Hunter. [S]

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Tomorrow 20:15 - 21:05

2/6. There is fierce competition at the Blainthorp Music Festival, but the finalists start losing their voices. Hetty is called in to find out who is responsible. [S]

The Turkish Detective

Tomorrow 21:05 - 22:00

1/8. British detective Mehmet Suleyman arrives in Istanbul to join the homicide unit led by eccentric inspector Çetin Ikmen just as the team investigate the murder of a student. [S,AD] [HD]

The Turkish Detective

Tomorrow 22:00 - 22:55

2/8. While the team close in on a suspect in Gözde's murder, Suleyman pursues his private investigation on the side and discovers a mysterious name. [S,AD] [HD]

Wogan

Tomorrow 22:55 - 23:30

Terry Wogan's guests are Jenny Agutter, Laurie Lee, who recites a piece from As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, and John Garnett. Barbara Dickson sings The Right Moment. [S]

Kenneth Williams: Comic Roots

Tomorrow 23:30 - 00:05

Kenneth Williams explores his roots in and around London's St Pancras, where he grew up. [S]

Sun Feb 22
Wogan with Kenneth Williams

Sunday 00:05 - 00:45

Kenneth Williams stands in for Terry Wogan, chatting with guests Barbara Windsor and husband Steve Hollings, Stephen Fry and Michael Palin. Music by Hank Marvin & The Shadows. [S]

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Sunday 00:45 - 01:35

2/6. There is fierce competition at the Blainthorp Music Festival, but the finalists start losing their voices. Hetty is called in to find out who is responsible. [S]

The Good Old Days

Sunday 01:35 - 02:20

Leonard Sachs presents the old-time music hall show from the City Varieties Theatre. With Hylda Baker, Val Doonican, Richard Hearne and Robin Hunter. [S]

Meet the Ancestors

Sunday 02:20 - 02:50

5/6. Julian Richards travels to the home of a couple who discovered that their bungalow was built over a 5th-century graveyard. [S]

This is BBC Four

Sunday 02:50 - 05:30

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Sunday 05:30 - 18:58

Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Sunday 18:58 - 19:00

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

Antiques Roadshow

Sunday 19:00 - 20:00

The team return to Aston Hall in Birmingham, where treasures include Wind in the Willows figures, memorabilia from an Aston Villa footballer and items from a pioneering mountaineer. [S] [HD]

Eurovision Classical Concerts: Lisbon

Sunday 20:00 - 21:00

Celebrating great music-making across Europe, a special concert from the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, also featuring the works of Smetana and Debussy. Nicholas Collon presents. [S] [HD]

British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Sunday 21:00 - 22:00

2/3. Lucy explores how British history is a concoction of fibs. She debunks the 'Glorious Revolution', when William of Orange stole the throne from James II. [S,AD] [HD]

Ibsen: The Wild Duck

Sunday 22:00 - 23:50

The 1971 adaption of the classic play by Henrik Ibsen. A family's fragile peace is shattered by an idealist who insists on exposing hidden truths. [S]

The Australian Wars

Sunday 23:50 - 00:50

2/3. How the growing number of European arrivals in Tasmania saw the death count grow, too. Contains some violence and some upsetting scenes. [S,AD] [HD]

Mon Feb 23
The Secret World of Haute Couture

Monday 00:50 - 01:45

Margy Kinmonth meets millionaire customers and world-famous designers as she explores the anachronistic but little-explained pocket of the fashion industry known as haute couture. [S,AD]

Eurovision Classical Concerts: Lisbon

Monday 01:45 - 02:50

Celebrating great music-making across Europe, a special concert from the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, also featuring the works of Smetana and Debussy. Nicholas Collon presents. [S] [HD]

Antiques Roadshow

Monday 02:50 - 03:50

The team return to Aston Hall in Birmingham, where treasures include Wind in the Willows figures, memorabilia from an Aston Villa footballer and items from a pioneering mountaineer. [S] [HD]

This is BBC Four

Monday 03:50 - 05:30

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Monday 05:30 - 18:58

Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Monday 18:58 - 19:00

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

Wild China

Monday 19:00 - 20:00

6/6. Documentary series. A look at how tea-growing cultures, bird-filled wetlands and futuristic cities jostle along China's eastern seaboard in a battle for resources. [S,AD] [HD]

Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez

Monday 20:00 - 21:00

1/3. A millionaire hunts for the mythical palace of the Minotaur and discovers a lost world. [S,AD] [HD]

Call My Bluff

Monday 21:00 - 21:30

Robert Robinson hosts a game of word definitions and deceptions. Captains Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell are joined by Tom Baker, Alan Coren, Gabrielle Drake and Miriam Stoppard. [S]

Face the Music

Monday 21:30 - 22:00

Joseph Cooper invites viewers to match their musical wits against Arianna Stassinopoulos, Brian Redhead and John Bird. With guest musician Walter Susskind. [S]

The Joy of AI

Monday 22:00 - 23:00

Documentary. Jim Al-Khalili takes a look at how we've created machines that can simulate, augment, and even outperform the human mind - and why this shouldn't spook us. [S,AD] [HD]

The Horizon Guide to AI

Monday 23:00 - 00:00

Documentary looking at the perception of AI from 1964 to the present day. Can we be optimistic about all that AI can deliver - or fearful of its ability to control our lives? [S] [HD]

Tue Feb 24
Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of British Sculpture

Tuesday 00:00 - 01:00

2/3. Alastair Sooke looks at the maverick sculptors working in the 18th and 19th centuries. [S] [HD]

The Australian Wars

Tuesday 01:00 - 02:00

2/3. How the growing number of European arrivals in Tasmania saw the death count grow, too. Contains some violence and some upsetting scenes. [S,AD] [HD]

Face the Music

Tuesday 02:00 - 02:30

Joseph Cooper invites viewers to match their musical wits against Arianna Stassinopoulos, Brian Redhead and John Bird. With guest musician Walter Susskind. [S]

Wild China

Tuesday 02:30 - 03:30

6/6. Documentary series. A look at how tea-growing cultures, bird-filled wetlands and futuristic cities jostle along China's eastern seaboard in a battle for resources. [S,AD,SL] [HD]

This is BBC Four

Tuesday 03:30 - 05:30

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Tuesday 05:30 - 18:58

Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Tuesday 18:58 - 19:00

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

Canals: The Making of a Nation

Tuesday 19:00 - 19:30

1/6. Liz McIvor tells the story of the people who operated the canal boats carrying fuel and goods around the country. [S] [HD]

Gareth Edwards's Great Welsh Adventure

Tuesday 19:30 - 20:00

3/5. It's a scorcher as Gareth Edwards and wife Maureen get to the seaside resort of Llandudno. [S] [HD]

Keeping Up Appearances

Tuesday 20:00 - 20:30

2/6. Sitcom. Hyacinth has asked the new vicar to tea, and - in her usual meticulous way - she has organised the event down to the last sugar lump. Events take a sudden turn. [S]

Yes, Prime Minister

Tuesday 20:30 - 21:00

8/8. Classic sitcom. MPs have been complaining about their phones being tapped. Jim Hacker naturally denies this, only to be told by Sir Humphrey that it is in fact true. [S]

Ardal O'Hanlon: Tomb Raider

Tuesday 21:00 - 22:00

Ardal O'Hanlon explores a 1930s quest to find the first Irish men and women using archaeology, answering his deepest questions about what it means to be Irish. [S] [HD]

Rebuilding Bucha - Storyville

Tuesday 22:00 - 23:30

Five people in Bucha, Ukraine, attempt to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of war. Contains some strong language and some upsetting scenes. [S] [HD]

iHuman - Storyville

Tuesday 23:30 - 01:05

A Storyville documentary exploring the true impact of artificial intelligence on the world. Contains some strong language and some upsetting scenes. [S] [HD]

Wed Feb 25
Canals: The Making of a Nation

Wednesday 01:05 - 01:35

1/6. Liz McIvor tells the story of the people who operated the canal boats carrying fuel and goods around the country. [S] [HD]

Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of British Sculpture

Wednesday 01:35 - 02:35

2/3. Alastair Sooke looks at the maverick sculptors working in the 18th and 19th centuries. [S] [HD]

British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Wednesday 02:35 - 03:35

2/3. Lucy explores how British history is a concoction of fibs. She debunks the 'Glorious Revolution', when William of Orange stole the throne from James II. [S,AD,SL] [HD]

This is BBC Four

Wednesday 03:35 - 05:30

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Wednesday 05:30 - 18:58

Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Wednesday 18:58 - 19:00

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

Canals: The Making of a Nation

Wednesday 19:00 - 19:30

2/6. Liz McIvor recounts the tales of the men who built the canals - the navigators or navvies - focusing on their work on the Manchester Ship Canal. [S] [HD]

Gareth Edwards's Great Welsh Adventure

Wednesday 19:30 - 20:00

4/5. Rugby legend Gareth and wife Maureen visit their top family holiday spot, St Davids. [S] [HD]

The Secret Genius of Plants

Wednesday 20:00 - 20:50

1/2. For a long time we've known that plants can move, but recent studies reveal other secrets. [S,AD] [HD]

Britain's Wild Places: Robins of Eden

Wednesday 20:50 - 21:00

The Eden Project is a world of different habitats created in a single Cornish quarry and probably the unlikeliest place to find the robin. So why have they set up home there? [S]

Tribe

Wednesday 21:00 - 22:00

5/6. Documentary series with explorer Bruce Parry, who this week treks into the high mountains in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to live with the isolated Layap people. [S,AD]

Lowry: A Simple Man

Wednesday 22:00 - 23:00

A ballet celebrating the centenary of the birth of artist LS Lowry, inspired by his industrial landscape paintings. Starring Christopher Gable and Moira Shearer. From 1987. [S]

Castles: Britain's Fortified History

Wednesday 23:00 - 00:00

3/3. Sam Willis looks at how castles survived into the Tudor era. But these strategic seats of power had to become palaces to impress monarchs such as Elizabeth I. [S,AD] [HD]

Thu Feb 26
Beautiful Equations

Thursday 00:00 - 01:00

Art critic Matt Collings explores the most famous equations in science and realises that concepts of beauty and elegance have been used by many scientists to advance their work. [S]

Canals: The Making of a Nation

Thursday 01:00 - 01:30

2/6. Liz McIvor recounts the tales of the men who built the canals - the navigators or navvies - focusing on their work on the Manchester Ship Canal. [S] [HD]

Tribe

Thursday 01:30 - 02:30

5/6. Documentary series with explorer Bruce Parry, who this week treks into the high mountains in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to live with the isolated Layap people. [S,AD]

Castles: Britain's Fortified History

Thursday 02:30 - 03:30

3/3. Sam Willis looks at how castles survived into the Tudor era. But these strategic seats of power had to become palaces to impress monarchs such as Elizabeth I. [S,AD,SL]

This is BBC Four

Thursday 03:30 - 05:30

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Thursday 05:30 - 18:58

Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Thursday 18:58 - 19:00

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

Canals: The Making of a Nation

Thursday 19:00 - 19:30

3/6. Liz McIvor explores how the nation's canals were saved following years of postwar neglect, becoming places of tranquillity and popular for boating holidays. [S] [HD]

Gareth Edwards's Great Welsh Adventure

Thursday 19:30 - 20:00

5/5. Gareth and Maureen enlist in tank school and gear up for a drive like no other. In the Brecon Beacons, they discover if they've finally cracked the art of narrowboating. [S] [HD]

The Bridge: Fifty Years Across the Forth

Thursday 20:00 - 21:00

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a great Scottish landmark, the Forth Road Bridge. [S,AD] [HD]

The 39 Steps: The Read with John Hannah

Thursday 21:00 - 22:00

Murder, conspiracy and espionage are the thrilling themes of Buchan's gripping adventure novel set against the backdrop of WWI. Bafta-nominated actor John Hannah reads. [S] [HD]

The 39 Steps

Thursday 22:00 - 23:20

A man is pursued by the police for a murder he did not commit and by an international spy ring for information he does not possess. Classic Hitchcock mystery. [S] [HD]

Calendar Girls

Thursday 23:20 - 01:05

Comedy drama based on the true story of 12 Yorkshire ladies who find a compelling way to raise money for charity: a nude calendar. Stars Helen Mirren and Julie Walters. [2003] [S,AD]

Fri Feb 27
The Horizon Guide to AI

Friday 01:05 - 02:05

Documentary looking at the perception of AI from 1964 to the present day. Can we be optimistic about all that AI can deliver - or fearful of its ability to control our lives? [S] [HD]

Canals: The Making of a Nation

Friday 02:05 - 02:35

3/6. Liz McIvor explores how the nation's canals were saved following years of postwar neglect, becoming places of tranquillity and popular for boating holidays. [S] [HD]

Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez

Friday 02:35 - 03:35

1/3. A millionaire hunts for the mythical palace of the Minotaur and discovers a lost world. [S,AD,SL] [HD]

This is BBC Four

Friday 03:35 - 05:30

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Friday 05:30 - 18:58

Daily from 7.00pm. [HD]

This is BBC Four

Friday 18:58 - 19:00

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

TOTP: 1999

Friday 19:00 - 19:30

Jamie Theakston presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 30 April 1999 and featuring Martine McCutcheon, Texas, Busta Rhymes, Faithless and Westlife. [S]

TOTP: 1999

Friday 19:30 - 20:00

Kate Thornton presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 7 May 1999 and featuring Phats & Small, The Offspring, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Cast, Geri Halliwell and Westlife. [S]

TOTP: 1979

Friday 20:00 - 20:35

Mike Read presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 1 March 1979 and featuring The Skids, Thin Lizzy, Chic and David Essex. With dance sequences by Legs & Co. [S]

TOTP: 1988

Friday 20:35 - 21:05

Peter Powell and Mark Goodier present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 25 February 1988 and featuring The Primitives, Morrissey, Vanessa Paradis and The Mission. [S]

St David's Day at the BBC

Friday 21:05 - 22:05

Celebrate St David's Day with classic performances drawn from the BBC's music archives. Includes Manic Street Preachers, Catatonia, Feeder, Dame Shirley Bassey and Sir Tom Jones. [S] [HD]

Dame Shirley Bassey: Electric Proms 2009

Friday 22:05 - 23:05

Trevor Nelson and Edith Bowman present highlights of Dame Shirley Bassey's special performance for the BBC Electric Proms from London's Roundhouse. [S] [HD]

Stereophonics: Radio 2 in Concert

Friday 23:05 - 00:05

Stereophonics perform some of their biggest hits, plus tracks from their 2019 UK number one album Kind, in a special Radio 2 In Concert presented by Fearne Cotton. [S] [HD]