2024-07-03 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 Sicily: The Wonder of the Mediterranean 2/2. Michael Scott continues his journey through Sicily, tracing the island's story through the arrival of the Muslim Arabs and then the Normans. [S,AD] [HD] 11:00 One Foot in the Grave 5/6. Sitcom. Margaret worries that Victor might be having an affair, so she retaliates by spending more time with her friend, Mr Wharton. [S] 11:30 Butterflies 5/6. A work of art has an effect on the whole family. Father and son are drawn closer, and Ria finds it hard to ignore Leonard's existence. [S] 12:00 Dam Busters Declassified Martin Shaw separates the fact from the myth as he takes to the skies to retrace the route of the 1943 raid by 617 Squadron which used bouncing bombs to destroy German dams. [S,AD] 13:00 Inheriting the Castle - Storyville A mother and daughter inherit an enormous crumbling mansion in the Argentine Pampas. Contains some strong language. [S] [HD] 14:15 Eugenics: Science's Greatest Scandal 2/2. How the legacy of eugenics continues to the present day. Contains some strong language and some upsetting scenes. [S,AD] [HD] 15:15 Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed In a world exclusive, Professor Alice Roberts follows a decade-long historical quest using cutting-edge research that reveals Stonehenge's oldest secret. [S,AD] [HD] 16:15 Sicily: The Wonder of the Mediterranean 2/2. Michael Scott continues his journey through Sicily, tracing the island's story through the arrival of the Muslim Arabs and then the Normans. [S,AD] [HD] 17:15 Dam Busters Declassified Martin Shaw separates the fact from the myth as he takes to the skies to retrace the route of the 1943 raid by 617 Squadron which used bouncing bombs to destroy German dams. [S,AD,SL] 18:15 This is BBC Four Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD] 20:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm
2024-07-04 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 Walk the Line with Barra Best 3/3. Barra Best explores some of Northern Ireland's lost railways. In this episode he hears how the Fermanagh railways were used in a game of wartime espionage, and visits the barbers. [S] 10:30 Canal Boat Diaries 2/5. Life on England's waterways with Robbie Cumming. A low canal tunnel in Staffordshire proves a problem, and Robbie helps out a stranded boater. [S] [HD] 11:00 Full Circle with Michael Palin 8/10. Michael Palin takes a reed boat on Lake Titicaca in the Andes before embarking on a 1,000-mile journey along the Urubamba river to the Amazon. [S] 11:50 Ravens Return Natural history short. Newborough forest, on the edge of the west coast of Anglesey in north Wales, is home to one of the biggest raven roosts in Europe. [S] 12:00 Sleuths, Spies & Sorcerers:... ...Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes. 1/3. Andrew Marr investigates detective fiction, and reveals how it works. [S,AD] [HD] 13:00 Trevor Eve Remembers... Waking the Dead Actor Trevor Eve, who played Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd in all nine series, looks back at the long-running BBC crime drama Waking the Dead. [S] [HD] 13:15 Waking the Dead 1/8. When Detective Superintendent Boyd encounters a woman unable to accept the explanation of her father's death in a terrible car crash, he takes on the case. [S,AD] 14:10 Waking the Dead 2/8. New evidence points to suicide but, when Boyd and the team exhume Perry Coleman's body, DNA tests reveal some disturbing facts that call this into question. [S,AD]