BBC Four HD

Programmes start at 7.00pm.

Coverage of the 2026 Test series between England and Pakistan.

A selection of musical treats from a summer of extraordinary music at the world's biggest classical music festival. From Berlioz to Beethoven, Miles Davis to Marvin Gaye.

Performance artist Selina Thompson looks back on the 2021 TV adaptation of her award-winning one-woman show Salt.

Artist Selina Thompson recalls her journey by sea to retrace a route of the slave trade. Contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.

Stephen Tompkinson looks back on the 1994 TV adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play.

Hester is rescued by a neighbour after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her younger lover, ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page.

Dr Helen Czerski investigates the science behind the sounds we're familiar with and the sounds that we normally can't hear, from Big Ben to the Stromboli volcano.

The view from the driving seat as Flying Scotsman travels the Severn Valley Railway. Cab cameras and microphones capture all the action.

Nature documentary. Joining up with a team of elite Italian cavers, Steve ventures deep within a tepui, inside a newly discovered cave.

Programmes start at 7.00pm.

Programmes start at 7.00pm.

Documentary celebrating spring on planet Earth, and the extraordinary tricks that animals and plants find to rise to the new challenges it brings.

Bendor Grosvenor and Emma Dabiri investigate two paintings of characters from the Gospels.

Magnus Magnusson presents the quiz programme from Strathclyde University. The specialist subjects are George Orwell, the history of costume from 1600, Rome and the Common Market.

Robert Robinson hosts as Patrick Campbell, Anouska Hempel and Nigel Havers take on Frank Muir, Diana Quick and Robert Powell in the panel game of word definitions and deceptions.

Chris Lintott and the team explore the extraordinary engineering, both on Earth and millions of kilometres above it in space, that is transforming modern astronomy.

Artist Lubaina Himid talks to John Wilson about her creative influences.

Alastair Sooke looks at the maverick sculptors working in the 18th and 19th centuries.