Most Viewed From BBC Four

Novelist Martin Amis, a fierce critic of contemporary society, examines his experience of Englishness. Richly illustrated with archive footage, he...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

A BBC documentary on the life & music of Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tom Service

Professor Jim Al Khalili delves into over 50 years of the BBC science archive to tell the story behind the emergence of one of the greatest theories...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jim Al-Khalili

Documentary in which Andrew Graham-Dixon reveals how the Medici family transformed Florence through sculpture, painting, and architecture and created...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Andrew Graham-Dixon

Uninterrupted and unspoiled by voice-over or music, the birdsong of sunrise in all its glory. Three different habitats, Britain's woodland, heathland...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Sadeq Saba travels to Iran to explore the life and work of Omar Khayyam, the great medieval mathematician and poet whose philosophy continues to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Tom Service delves into the life and times of Mozart to try and rediscover his greatness.

Genre: Music

Cast: Tom Service

It has been said that 10,000 years from now only one name will still be remembered, that of Neil Armstrong. But in the four decades since he first...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Neil Armstrong

An immersive, experiential film about the deaf world, with its unique humour and culture - a world which most of us rarely encounter. The film is in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

What’s the best way to save the ageing breed of male Morris dancer from extinction? Richard Macer infiltrates the endangered world of bells,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Macer

It is five times hotter than the sun and turns sand to glass in an instant. It can shoot 80 kilometres up above storm clouds. And it may even have...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

The cliché of classic rock guitar is one of riffs, solos and noise. But write a list of great guitarists and their finest moments and a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

Author Henry Hitchings explores the lives and works of Britain's radical and pioneering 18th-century novelists who, in just 80 years, established all...

Genre: History

Cast: Henry Hitchings

Thousands of black soldiers fought in the First World War. Poet Jackie Kay tells the story of one of them - Arthur Roberts. Arthur grew up in Glasgow...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jackie Kay

As the BBC makes its exit from the iconic west London site of Television Centre, BBC Four presents a special night of celebration of the building and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Suggs

A BBC Four Slow Christmas treat follows Norway’s Sami reindeer herds as they migrate across the mountainous region of Finnmark, far north of...

Genre:

Cast:

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, by chronicling how the story of the battle has...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Saul David

Documentary about Swiss aristocrat and art entrepreneur Simon de Pury

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon de Pury