BBC Four HD

Programmes start at 7.00pm.

Michael Portillo ventures down under to ride one of the world's greatest rail journeys aboard the legendary Ghan Railway. Along the way, Michael uncovers the history of the ambitious project.

Life on board a narrowboat with Robbie Cumming. Robbie battles his way through blanket weed on the Shropshire Union Canal and discovers industrial secrets in Audlem, Cheshire.

Historian Simon Schama looks at paintings by Poussin and the writings of Horace, Virgil, Rousseau and Thoreau as he investigates the theme of Arcadia.

Post-war architectural innovations in the Big Apple.

Robert Robinson referees as Frank Muir, Hannah Gordon and Barry Norman face Patrick Campbell, Glenys Roberts and Paul Daneman in a duel of words and wit.

Joseph Cooper invites listeners to match their musical wits against Joyce Grenfell, Robin Ray and David Attenborough. Guest musician Andreej Panufnik.

The remarkable story of how Hubble revealed the awe and wonder of our universe and how a team of daring astronauts risked their lives to keep it working.

Cameras in space show that Earth is changing rapidly. Cities sprawl while forests and glaciers shrink. But in Tanzania locals have regenerated the landscape to save chimpanzees.

Dr James Fox takes a journey through six different landscapes across Britain, meeting artists whose work explores our relationship to the natural world.

Michael Portillo ventures down under to ride one of the world's greatest rail journeys aboard the legendary Ghan Railway. Along the way, Michael uncovers the history of the ambitious project.

Life on board a narrowboat with Robbie Cumming. Robbie battles his way through blanket weed on the Shropshire Union Canal and discovers industrial secrets in Audlem, Cheshire.

Cameras in space show that Earth is changing rapidly. Cities sprawl while forests and glaciers shrink. But in Tanzania locals have regenerated the landscape to save chimpanzees.

The remarkable story of how Hubble revealed the awe and wonder of our universe and how a team of daring astronauts risked their lives to keep it working.

Programmes start at 7.00pm.

Programmes start at 7.00pm.

Michael Portillo continues to trace the route of the Ghan Railway. Before boarding the luxurious transcontinental, Michael meets orphaned joeys Tilly and Max at Brolga's Kangaroo Sanctuary.

Life on England's waterways with Robbie Cumming. Robbie gets stuck in the mud in Woodseaves Cutting and explores the charming canal-side village of Kinver in Staffordshire.

Classic prison-set sitcom. Godber takes up boxing and enters the prison championships, but someone wants him to come a cropper.

Jean is baffled when her daughter goes out with one of her clients. When the two meet, they realise they were once lovers, separated during the Korean War.

Helen Castor explores the lives of the Tudor queens Jane, Mary and Elizabeth, and how each struggled with wearing a crown that was made for a male head.

A Storyville documentary that follows, with unprecedented access to one of the most secretive cabals in the world, a group of Talib leaders in their first year back in power in Afghanistan.

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, John Simpson examines his reports.