Today 02:45 - 03:45
The life of the most glamorous plane ever built, as told by the people whose lives she touched. Narrated by Sophie Okonedo. Also in HD. [S,SL]
TV Guide Search
9: BBC FOUR
Thu Apr 23
Today 03:45 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Today 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm.
Today 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Today 19:00 - 22:00
Coverage of day 6 of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Also in HD. [S]
Today 22:00 - 23:30
A puritan police officer arrives on a Scottish island in search of a missing girl. Contains some sexual content and disturbing scenes. Also in HD. [1973] [S,AD]
Today 23:30 - 00:00
Documentary about cult British horror film The Wicker Man. Featuring actors Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward and Ingrid Pitt and director Robin Hardy. Deals with adult themes. Also in HD. [S]
Fri Apr 24
Tomorrow 00:00 - 01:00
Professor Jeremy Black explains the unique economic, social and political factors that helped Britain transform itself almost entirely by the 19th century. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Tomorrow 01:00 - 02:00
Archaeologist Dr Fraser Hunter looks back on three centuries of contact and conflict with Scotland's Roman invaders, a story of a superpower pitted against tribesmen and warlords. Also in HD. [S]
Tomorrow 02:00 - 03:00
3/3. An international team of scientists is trying to change perceptions of sharks. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Tomorrow 03:00 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Tomorrow 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm.
Tomorrow 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Tomorrow 19:00 - 22:00
Coverage of day 7 of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Also in HD. [S]
Tomorrow 22:00 - 22:30
Gary Davies presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 23 April 1987, featuring Five Star, The Smiths, Kim Wilde & Junior, Tom Jones, Madonna and Terence Trent D'Arby. Also in HD. [S]
Tomorrow 22:30 - 23:00
Jakki Brambles presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 19 April 1990 and featuring Sonia, Faith No More and Adamski. Also in HD. [S]
Tomorrow 23:00 - 23:35
A deep dive into the BBC's archives to celebrate the great Roy Orbison. Featuring hits from his UK visits, including Only the Lonely, Crying and Oh Pretty Woman. Also in HD. [S]
Tomorrow 23:35 - 00:35
Roy Orbison performs with guests such as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits and Elvis Costello. Also in HD. [S]
Sat Apr 25
Saturday 00:35 - 01:05
Including Only the Lonely, Crying, Penny Arcade, Blue Bayou and Oh, Pretty Woman. Also in HD. [S]
Saturday 01:05 - 01:35
Gary Davies presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 23 April 1987, featuring Five Star, The Smiths, Kim Wilde & Junior, Tom Jones, Madonna and Terence Trent D'Arby. Also in HD. [S]
Saturday 01:35 - 02:05
Jakki Brambles presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 19 April 1990 and featuring Sonia, Faith No More and Adamski. Also in HD. [S]
Saturday 02:05 - 02:40
A deep dive into the BBC's archives to celebrate the great Roy Orbison. Featuring hits from his UK visits, including Only the Lonely, Crying and Oh Pretty Woman. Also in HD. [S]
Saturday 02:40 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Saturday 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm.
Saturday 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Saturday 19:00 - 22:00
Coverage of day 8 of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Also in HD. [S]
Saturday 22:00 - 23:00
Documentary charting the life of snooker legend Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins. Contributors include Jimmy White, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Dennis Taylor and Barry Hearn. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Saturday 23:00 - 00:55
Resistance fighters smuggle gold reserves out of Norway before the Nazis invade. Also in HD. [2022] [S]
Sun Apr 26
Sunday 00:55 - 01:45
Film exploring the extraordinary impact of escapologist Harry Houdini in the early 20th century. Featuring restored archive footage and interviews with historians and illusionists. Also in HD. [S]
Sunday 01:45 - 02:45
Professor Jeremy Black explains the unique economic, social and political factors that helped Britain transform itself almost entirely by the 19th century. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Sunday 02:45 - 03:45
Documentary charting the life of snooker legend Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins. Contributors include Jimmy White, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Dennis Taylor and Barry Hearn. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Sunday 03:45 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Sunday 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm.
Sunday 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Sunday 19:00 - 22:00
Coverage of day 9 of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Also in HD. [S]
Sunday 22:00 - 23:10
River takes its audience on a journey through space and time spanning six continents, showing rivers on a scale and from perspectives never seen before. Also in HD. [S]
Sunday 23:10 - 00:10
2/2. Richard E Grant explores how modern art and the Riviera grew up together when the Cote D'Azur became both a hedonistic playground and an experimental studio. Also in HD. [S]
Mon Apr 27
Monday 00:10 - 01:10
Investigation into the extraordinary life of Gershwin's classic composition Summertime. Also in HD. [S]
Monday 01:10 - 02:10
2/3. Historian Bettany Hughes is in Greece, on the trail of the hugely influential maverick thinker Socrates, who was executed for his beliefs. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Monday 02:10 - 03:10
2/2. Richard E Grant explores how modern art and the Riviera grew up together when the Cote D'Azur became both a hedonistic playground and an experimental studio. Also in HD. [S,SL]
Monday 03:10 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Monday 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm.
Monday 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Monday 19:00 - 19:30
1/3. Adventurer Paul Rose heads for Wensleydale in a three-part series about the Yorkshire Dales. He finds out why cycling is so popular and meets a family of Dales dormice. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Monday 19:30 - 20:00
1/4. Robbie battles his way through blanket weed on the Shropshire Union Canal. Also in HD. [S]
Monday 20:00 - 21:00
1/3. The mystery surrounding the Egyptian city of Piramesse, built by Ramesses the Great. Also in HD. [S]
Monday 21:00 - 22:00
Story behind the festival which showed how to carve out a bright future through design. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Monday 22:00 - 23:00
1/3. Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the story of artist Paul Nash and how his experiences during the First World War haunted his later work. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Monday 23:00 - 00:00
2/3. Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke discover Barcelona through its art and architecture, including the frescoes that inspired Miro and a surprising collection of vintage fans. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Tue Apr 28
Tuesday 00:00 - 01:00
4/8. A splintering of politics and religion under the Stuarts leads to more questioning art. Contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Tuesday 01:00 - 02:00
Story behind the festival which showed how to carve out a bright future through design. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Tuesday 02:00 - 03:00
4/8. A splintering of politics and religion under the Stuarts leads to more questioning art. Contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting. Also in HD. [S,AD,SL]
Tuesday 03:00 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Tuesday 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm.
Tuesday 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Tuesday 19:00 - 19:30
2/3. Paul Rose heads underground in Swaledale to try and find rare industrial artefacts. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Tuesday 19:30 - 20:00
2/4. Life on England's waterways with Robbie Cumming. Robbie gets stuck in the mud in Woodseaves Cutting and explores the charming canal-side village of Kinver in Staffordshire. Also in HD. [S]
Tuesday 20:00 - 20:30
4/10. Sitcom. Hyacinth and Richard go to join the Major at a hotel for a golfing weekend. The Major cries off playing, but has organised a friend to play with Richard. Also in HD. [S]
Tuesday 20:30 - 21:00
2/6. Timothy is suffering from bouts of sleepwalking, which could cause trouble as the annual interview for promotion is just around the corner. Also in HD. [S]
Tuesday 21:00 - 22:00
1/4. Simon Schama looks beyond the romantic stories of Cavaliers and Roundheads to the real story of the English Civil War, in which hundreds of thousands died. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Tuesday 22:00 - 23:30
Film about a seemingly ordinary Englishman who spent more than 40 years as a mercenary. Contains strong language and some upsetting scenes. Also in HD. [S]
Tuesday 23:30 - 00:20
First transmitted in 2001, this programme chronicles the construction of the Empire State Building in New York, which was the world's tallest skyscraper when opened in 1931. Also in HD. [S]
Wed Apr 29
Wednesday 00:20 - 01:20
Documentary tracing how understanding of the powerful and changing weather phenomenon that is the jet stream - a ribbon of fast-moving air high in the atmosphere - has grown. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Wednesday 01:20 - 02:20
2/3. Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke discover Barcelona through its art and architecture, including the frescoes that inspired Miro and a surprising collection of vintage fans. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Wednesday 02:20 - 03:20
1/3. The documentary series which unearths lost cities looks at the mystery surrounding the Egyptian city of Piramesse, built by Ramesses the Great. Also in HD. [S,SL]
Wednesday 03:20 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Wednesday 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm.
Wednesday 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Wednesday 19:00 - 19:30
3/3. Explorer Paul Rose's Yorkshire Dales adventure concludes in Wharfedale. He meets the Calendar Girls and finds out why bats are threatened in the Dales. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Wednesday 19:30 - 20:00
3/4. Robbie navigates the mighty River Severn and takes an unexpected bath. Also in HD. [S]
Wednesday 20:00 - 21:00
Scientists uncover the secrets of the Mandrin Cave in France, where the remains of a Neanderthal were found in 2015. Contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting. Also in HD. [S]
Wednesday 21:00 - 22:00
Documentary which follows the construction of a trailblazing 36,000-tonne steel structure to entomb the ruins of the nuclear power plant destroyed in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Wednesday 22:00 - 23:30
Patricia Hayes stars in Jeremy Sandford's play about a down and out woman who wanders through life in an alcoholic haze without a job, a home or any money. Also in HD. [S]
Wednesday 23:30 - 00:30
1/3. Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahead at the court of Richard II. Also in HD. [S]
Thu Apr 30
Thursday 00:30 - 01:25
Scientists uncover the secrets of the Mandrin Cave in France, where the remains of a Neanderthal were found in 2015. Contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting. Also in HD. [S]
Thursday 01:25 - 02:15
First transmitted in 2001, this programme chronicles the construction of the Empire State Building in New York, which was the world's tallest skyscraper when opened in 1931. Also in HD. [S]
Thursday 02:15 - 03:15
Documentary which follows the construction of a trailblazing 36,000-tonne steel structure to entomb the ruins of the nuclear power plant destroyed in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Also in HD. [S,AD]
Thursday 03:15 - 05:30
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Thursday 05:30 - 18:58
Daily from 7.00pm.
Thursday 18:58 - 19:00
Programmes start at 7.00pm.
Thursday 19:00 - 19:30
Ben Robinson unlocks the ancient roots of the Northumberland village of Warkworth, discovering clues that point back almost 1,000 years to the Norman conquest. Also in HD. [S]
Thursday 19:30 - 20:00
4/4. Robbie crosses an aqueduct and gets stuck in a lock. Also in HD. [S]
Thursday 20:00 - 22:00
Returning to England from Istanbul on the Orient Express, Hercule Poirot is asked to investigate a murder. Also in HD. [1974] [S]
Thursday 22:00 - 22:35
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by award-winning actor Albert Finney, with archive interviews and classic clips. Narrated by Sylvia Syms. Also in HD. [S]
Thursday 22:35 - 00:05
Reese Witherspoon stars as the object of affection for two men using the same alias. Also in HD. [2002] [S,AD]
Fri May 01
Friday 00:05 - 01:05
Kate Humble and Helen Czerski reveal the inner workings of the sun and investigate why scientists think changes in the sun's behaviour may have powerful effects on our climate. Also in HD. [S,AD]