2026-01-26 04:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 10:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 11:58 This is BBC Four Programmes start at 7.00pm. 12:00 Wild China In China's far south west, rich jungles nestle below towering peaks. Jewel-coloured birds and ancient tribes share forested valleys where wild elephants still roam. 13:00 Art of Persia Samira Ahmed reveals how Iran preserved its distinctive language and culture despite the Arab conquest of Persia. 14:00 Call My Bluff Robert Robinson hosts as Frank Muir, Jenny Agutter and Tim Rice take on Patrick Campbell, Sinead Cusak and Nigel Dempster in a game of word definitions and deceptions. 14:30 Face the Music Joseph Cooper invites viewers to test their musical wits against Camilla Jessel, Robin Ray and Edward Boyle. With guest musician Mitsuko Uchida. 15:00 Tim Peake Special: How to Be an Astronaut - Horizon Astronaut Tim Peake's video diary of the two years leading up to his arrival at the International Space Station in December 2015. 16:00 8 Days: To the Moon and Back Using dramatic reconstruction, declassified cockpit audio recorded by the astronauts themselves and film archive, this is the untold story of the first moon landing. 17:30 Man in Space - Horizon First transmitted in 1966, Horizon reports from the spacecraft centre in Houston, Texas. 18:10 Face the Music Joseph Cooper invites viewers to test their musical wits against Camilla Jessel, Robin Ray and Edward Boyle. With guest musician Mitsuko Uchida. 18:40 Tim Peake Special: How to be an Astronaut - Horizon Astronaut Tim Peake's video diary of the two years leading up to his arrival at the International Space Station in December 2015. 19:40 Art of Persia Samira Ahmed reveals how Iran preserved its distinctive language and culture despite the Arab conquest of Persia. 20:40 This is BBC Four Programmes start at 7.00pm. 22:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm
2026-01-27 04:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 10:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 11:58 This is BBC Four Programmes start at 7.00pm. 12:00 Great British Railway Journeys Starting in Wakefield, Michael visits the National Coal Mining Museum for England. 12:30 Wainwright Walks Julia Bradbury explores the work of fell walker Alfred Wainwright. Here she climbs Helm Crag, defined by the rock formations at its summit nicknamed the Lion and the Lamb. 13:00 Yes, Prime Minister Classic sitcom. When a scandal breaks in the City, Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey cannot agree on who should be the new governor of the Bank of England. 13:30 Yes, Prime Minister Classic political sitcom. Jim Hacker meets a local councillor who has radical ideas about local government. The PM likes what he hears, unlike Sir Humphrey. 14:00 Henry VIII's Enforcer: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell Thomas Cromwell is revealed as a revolutionary who laid the foundations of modern Britain. 15:00 Philip Larkin and the Third Woman Sir Andrew Motion discovers an unpublished poem by Philip Larkin when he visits Hull to meet one of the poet's ex-lovers, Betty Mackereth, speaking of her love for the first time. 15:30 The Great American Buffalo 1/2. Ken Burns recounts how the collision between two opposing views of the natural world saw the buffalo, which had numbered in the tens of millions, driven to the brink of extinction.