2024-09-27 02:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 08:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 09:58 This is BBC Four Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD] 10:00 Great British Railway Journeys 14/15. Michael learns how the life of a great British composer was shaped by Suffolk and the sea. [S,AD] [HD] 10:30 The Flying Archaeologist 4/4. Ben Robinson flies over the Thames to reveal discoveries about WWI, including a network of trenches on the Hoo peninsula near the former Chattenden Barracks. [S] 11:00 Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal 2/2. Intimate series profiling Princess Margaret. The second film finds Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones at the start of their married life in the early 1960s. [S,AD] [HD] 12:00 The Big Sleep Philip Marlowe is hired to deal with a series of debts incurred by a general's daughter. [1946] [S] [HD] 13:50 Omnibus: Down These Mean... ...Streets a Man Must Go: Raymond Chandler. A portrait from 1969 of novelist Raymond Chandler, creator of the Philip Marlowe mystery thrillers, featuring dramatised excerpts from his work. [S] 14:45 Hollywood Actresses: Talking Pictures Sylvia Syms looks back on the legendary leading ladies of Hollywood - the glamorous and often powerful stars who helped define what it was to be a woman in cinema's golden age. [S] 15:35 Great British Railway Journeys 14/15. Michael learns how the life of a great British composer was shaped by Suffolk and the sea. [S,AD] [HD] 16:05 The Flying Archaeologist: The Thames - Secret War 4/4. Ben Robinson flies over the Thames to reveal discoveries about WWI, including a network of trenches on the Hoo peninsula near the former Chattenden Barracks. [S] 16:35 Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal 2/2. Intimate series profiling Princess Margaret. The second film finds Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones at the start of their married life in the early 1960s. [S,AD] [HD] 17:35 Omnibus: Down These Mean... ...Streets a Man Must Go: Raymond Chandler. A portrait from 1969 of novelist Raymond Chandler, creator of the Philip Marlowe mystery thrillers, featuring dramatised excerpts from his work. [S] 18:30 This is BBC Four Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD] 20:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm
2024-09-28 02:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 08:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 09:58 This is BBC Four Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD] 10:00 TOTP: 1996 Keith Allen presents the pop chart show, first broadcast on 19 July 1996 and featuring Umboza, Terrorvision, Livin' Joy, Rock Therapy, Spice Girls, Los Del Rio, Neneh Cherry and Gary Barlow. [S] 10:30 TOTP: 1996 Lisa I'Anson presents the pop chart show, first broadcast on 26 July 1996 and featuring Pato Banton, Mark Morrison, Suede, New Edition, Joyrider, Robbie Williams and Spice Girls. [S] 11:00 TOTP: 1985 Janice Long and Dixie Peach present the pop chart programme from September 1985. Featuring Depeche Mode, Billy Idol, Jennifer Rush, The Style Council and David Bowie & Mick Jagger. [S] 11:30 TOTP 1989 Sybil Ruscoe and Jenny Powell present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 28 September 1989 and featuring Wet Wet Wet, The Beautiful South and Gloria Estefan. [S] 12:00 Transatlantic Sessions 1/6. Established favourites Karen Matheson, Cara Dillon and Andy Irvine feature along with newcomers such as Boston's Aoife O'Donovan, Teddy Thompson and Ewan McLennan. [S] [HD] 12:30 Transatlantic Sessions 2/6. Music show featuring Virginian Mary Chapin Carpenter, Maura O'Connell from County Clare in Ireland and Hebridean Julie Fowlis. Tim O'Brien adds some Appalachian bitter-sweet. [S] [HD] 13:00 Transatlantic Sessions 3/6. Music show featuring the deftly delicate guitar of Russ Barenberg, one of the Sessions' 'founding fathers', and John McCusker's rollicking fiddle. [S] [HD] 13:30 Transatlantic Sessions 4/6. Music show. Phil Cunningham joins the fun, and music co-directors Jerry Douglas and Aly Bain are also to the fore, along with Mike McGoldrick on pipes and whistles. [S] [HD] 14:00 Transatlantic Sessions 5/6. The gathering of folk musicians sees John Doyle perform emigrant song Liberty's Sweet Shore, while Allan MacDonald closes proceedings with one of his inimitable pipe sets. [S] [HD] 14:30 Transatlantic Sessions 6/6. With Karen Matheson, Maura O'Connell, Aoife O'Donovan, Tim O'Brien and Andy Irvine backed by Aly, Jerry and Mike McGoldrick, Donald Shaw, Danny Thompson and James Mackintosh. [S] [HD] 15:00 Michael Kiwanuka and Laura... ...Marling at 6 Music Festival. Cerys Matthews brings you performances from the BBC 6 Music Festival 2021, including sets from Michael Kiwanuka, Laura Marling and Bicep. [S] [HD] 16:00 TOTP: 1996 Keith Allen presents the pop chart show, first broadcast on 19 July 1996 and featuring Umboza, Terrorvision, Livin' Joy, Rock Therapy, Spice Girls, Los Del Rio, Neneh Cherry and Gary Barlow. [S] 16:30 TOTP: 1996 Lisa I'Anson presents the pop chart show, first broadcast on 26 July 1996 and featuring Pato Banton, Mark Morrison, Suede, New Edition, Joyrider, Robbie Williams and Spice Girls. [S] 17:00 TOTP: 1985 Janice Long and Dixie Peach present the pop chart programme from September 1985. Featuring Depeche Mode, Billy Idol, Jennifer Rush, The Style Council and David Bowie & Mick Jagger. [S] 17:30 TOTP: 1989 Sybil Ruscoe and Jenny Powell present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 28 September 1989 and featuring Wet Wet Wet, The Beautiful South and Gloria Estefan. [S] 18:00 Transatlantic Sessions 1/6. Established favourites Karen Matheson, Cara Dillon and Andy Irvine feature along with newcomers such as Boston's Aoife O'Donovan, Teddy Thompson and Ewan McLennan. [S] [HD] 18:30 This is BBC Four Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD] 20:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm
2024-09-29 02:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 08:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 09:58 This is BBC Four Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD] 10:00 Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez 3/3. A young explorer stumbles on the buried remains of the world's oldest city. [S,AD] [HD] 11:00 Wild Arabia 2/3. Wildlife documentary series. Swept by the annual Indian Ocean monsoon, the Dhofar mountains become a magical lost world of waterfalls and cloud forests. [S,AD] [HD] 12:00 India: Nature's Wonderland 2/2. Wildlife expert Liz Bonnin, actor Freida Pinto and mountaineer Jon Gupta reveal the hidden wonders of India's surprising natural world. [S,AD] [HD] 13:00 Nostalgia A man's return to his hometown of Naples stirs up a past he has kept buried. Contains some strong language. [2022] [S] [HD] 14:50 Porridge 3/6. Classic comedy series. Fletch and Godber reconcile themselves to a quiet evening in at Slade prison. [S]