2026-02-21 05:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 11:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 12:58 This is BBC Four Programmes start at 7.00pm. 13:00 Meet the Ancestors Julian Richards travels to the home of a couple who discovered that their bungalow was built over a 5th-century graveyard. 13:30 The Good Old Days Leonard Sachs presents the old-time music hall show from the City Varieties Theatre. With Hylda Baker, Val Doonican, Richard Hearne and Robin Hunter. 14:15 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates There is fierce competition at the Blainthorp Music Festival, but the finalists start losing their voices. Hetty is called in to find out who is responsible. 15:05 The Turkish Detective British detective Mehmet Suleyman arrives in Istanbul to join the homicide unit led by eccentric inspector Çetin Ikmen just as the team investigate the murder of a student. 16:00 The Turkish Detective While the team close in on a suspect in Gözde's murder, Suleyman pursues his private investigation on the side and discovers a mysterious name. 16:55 Wogan Terry Wogan's guests are Jenny Agutter, Laurie Lee, who recites a piece from As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, and John Garnett. Barbara Dickson sings The Right Moment. 17:30 Kenneth Williams: Comic Roots Kenneth Williams explores his roots in and around London's St Pancras, where he grew up. 18:05 Wogan with Kenneth Williams Kenneth Williams stands in for Terry Wogan, chatting with guests Barbara Windsor and husband Steve Hollings, Stephen Fry and Michael Palin. Music by Hank Marvin & The Shadows. 18:45 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates There is fierce competition at the Blainthorp Music Festival, but the finalists start losing their voices. Hetty is called in to find out who is responsible. 19:35 The Good Old Days Leonard Sachs presents the old-time music hall show from the City Varieties Theatre. With Hylda Baker, Val Doonican, Richard Hearne and Robin Hunter. 20:20 Meet the Ancestors Julian Richards travels to the home of a couple who discovered that their bungalow was built over a 5th-century graveyard. 20:50 This is BBC Four Programmes start at 7.00pm. 23:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm
2026-02-22 05:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 11:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 12:58 This is BBC Four Programmes start at 7.00pm. 13:00 Antiques Roadshow The team return to Aston Hall in Birmingham, where treasures include Wind in the Willows figures, memorabilia from an Aston Villa footballer and items from a pioneering mountaineer. 14:00 Eurovision Classical Concerts: Lisbon Celebrating great music-making across Europe, a special concert from the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, also featuring the works of Smetana and Debussy. Nicholas Collon presents. 15:00 British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley Lucy explores how British history is a concoction of fibs. She debunks the 'Glorious Revolution', when William of Orange stole the throne from James II. 16:00 Ibsen: The Wild Duck The 1971 adaption of the classic play by Henrik Ibsen. A family's fragile peace is shattered by an idealist who insists on exposing hidden truths. 17:50 The Australian Wars How the growing number of European arrivals in Tasmania saw the death count grow, too. Contains some violence and some upsetting scenes. 18:50 The Secret World of Haute Couture Margy Kinmonth meets millionaire customers and world-famous designers as she explores the anachronistic but little-explained pocket of the fashion industry known as haute couture. 19:45 Eurovision Classical Concerts: Lisbon Celebrating great music-making across Europe, a special concert from the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, also featuring the works of Smetana and Debussy. Nicholas Collon presents. 20:50 Antiques Roadshow The team return to Aston Hall in Birmingham, where treasures include Wind in the Willows figures, memorabilia from an Aston Villa footballer and items from a pioneering mountaineer. 21:50 This is BBC Four Programmes start at 7.00pm. 23:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm
2026-02-23 05:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 11:30 ..programmes start at 7.00pm 12:58 This is BBC Four Programmes start at 7.00pm. 13:00 Wild China Documentary series. A look at how tea-growing cultures, bird-filled wetlands and futuristic cities jostle along China's eastern seaboard in a battle for resources. 14:00 Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez A millionaire hunts for the mythical palace of the Minotaur and discovers a lost world. 15:00 Call My Bluff Robert Robinson hosts a game of word definitions and deceptions. Captains Frank Muir and Patrick Campbell are joined by Tom Baker, Alan Coren, Gabrielle Drake and Miriam Stoppard. 15:30 Face the Music Joseph Cooper invites viewers to match their musical wits against Arianna Stassinopoulos, Brian Redhead and John Bird. With guest musician Walter Susskind. 16:00 The Joy of AI Documentary. Jim Al-Khalili takes a look at how we've created machines that can simulate, augment, and even outperform the human mind - and why this shouldn't spook us. 17:00 The Horizon Guide to AI Documentary looking at the perception of AI from 1964 to the present day. Can we be optimistic about all that AI can deliver - or fearful of its ability to control our lives.