BBC Four HD 2026-08-31 Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD] 2026-08-31 Documentary featuring home movies of the diehard enthusiasts and boat owners who helped to save the inland waterways for the nation and create a second golden age of the canals. [S] 2026-08-31 The world's greatest classical music festival celebrates this year's future masterpieces. Presented by Tom Service, expect bold compositions and illustrious orchestral pieces. [S] [HD] 2026-08-31 .. Absurd Person Singular. Maureen Lipman looks back on the filming of the 1985 TV adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular. [S] [HD] 2026-08-31 Three couples meet on three separate Christmas Eves in their three respective kitchens. Classic comedy drama, with a sting in the tail, by Alan Ayckbourn. Deals with adult themes. [S] 2026-08-31 Bernard Levin interviews playwright and director Alan Ayckbourn. [S] 2026-08-31 The world's greatest classical music festival celebrates this year's future masterpieces. Presented by Tom Service, expect bold compositions and illustrious orchestral pieces. [S] [HD] 2026-08-31 Documentary featuring home movies of the diehard enthusiasts and boat owners who helped to save the inland waterways for the nation and create a second golden age of the canals. [S,SL] 2026-08-31 Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD] 2026-08-31 2026-08-31 2026-08-31 2026-09-01 Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD] 2026-09-01 7/10. Tim Dunn rides up Yr Wyddfa's (Snowdon's) railway to visit the summit station and discovers how a glass structure envelopes Strasbourg's 19th-century station. [S,AD] [HD] 2026-09-01 Chris Beardshaw visits Britain's most inspirational gardens. He meets an enthusiastic group of organic farmers in Kent and helps a family trying to grow their own produce. [S] 2026-09-01 2/3. Richard Miles shows how 18th- and 19th-century discoveries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began as empires competed to own the past. [S] [HD] 2026-09-01 Magnus Magnusson presents the quiz programme from City University. Specialist subjects include Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sir Francis Drake and lady members of the House of Commons. [S] 2026-09-01 Robert Robinson hosts as Frank Muir, Elizabeth Knight and Patrick Lichfield face Arthur Marshall, Anna Ford and Derek Jacobi in the panel game of word definitions and deceptions. [S] 2026-09-01 Film following renowned Vermeer expert Gregor Weber as he explores the latest techniques and new discoveries that are bringing us closer to understanding Vermeer and how he worked. [S] [HD] 2026-09-01 Documentary looking into what killed King Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh. Dallas Campbell reveals new scientific research and carries out unique experiments to get to the truth. [S,AD] [HD] 2026-09-01 1/3. James Fox uses art to chart humankind's earliest attempts to gain control over nature. [S] [HD] 2026-09-01 Chris Beardshaw visits Britain's most inspirational gardens. He meets an enthusiastic group of organic farmers in Kent and helps a family trying to grow their own produce. [S] 2026-09-01 Film following renowned Vermeer expert Gregor Weber as he explores the latest techniques and new discoveries that are bringing us closer to understanding Vermeer and how he worked. [S] [HD] 2026-09-01 2/3. Richard Miles shows how 18th- and 19th-century discoveries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began as empires competed to own the past. [S,SL] 2026-09-01 Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD] 2026-09-01 2026-09-01 2026-09-01