BBC Four HD Monday, 11 December Find out what's on TV.
Click here to open BBC iPlayer Not in the UK? Click here to read our guide on how to watch BBC iPlayer from abroad.- 5:30am
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 9:30am
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 1:30pm
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 5:30pm
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 6:58pm
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 7:00pm
Great British Railway Journeys
Series 11 Episode 13: Witham to FelixstoweMichael Portillo's railway journey through 1930s Britain from Canterbury to Skegness reaches Witham in Essex. Here he visits the factory of the world's oldest supplier of metal framed windows which became popular in the thirties.
- 7:30pm
Walking With..
Walking with Monica GalettiMonica Galetti takes in the dramatic landscapes of the North York Moors as she crosses the heather from Rosedale to Farndale, meeting locals along the way.
- 8:00pm
An Art Lovers' Guide
Series 2 Episode 3: BakuBordering the Caspian Sea, Baku offers a tantalising mix of the ancient and modern - at the crossroads of east meets west, on the ancient silk trading route. It is also an authoritarian state, where cultural life is tightly controlled.
- 9:00pm
Art That Made Us
Series 1 Episode 8: Brilliant IslesA look at how the generation of artists who recorded the shocks of global war gave way in the 1950s and 1960s to an explosion of new voices from across the British Isles, reinventing the arts and creating a richer, more diverse culture. Young artists rebelled against the old establishment, kicking against the confines of class, sex, nation and race.
- 10:00pm
Seeds of Deceit: The Sperm Donor Doctor
Series 1 Episode 3Dr Jan Karbaat had a favourite sperm donor, who yearned for immortality and produced over 200 donor children. Karbaat was highly unselective with his donors and unconcerned about genetic diseases. More and more cases come to light globally of doctors being sued for malpractice after inseminating patients with their own semen.
- 10:45pm
Arena
According to BerylDame Beryl Bainbridge takes an idiosyncratic tour of the last 20 years of writer and poet Samuel Johnson's turbulent life. During this period, Johnson was the house guest of Henry Thrale, the richest brewer in England, and his wife Hester, who cared for him throughout his bouts of melancholia and gout. Bainbridge has taken the story of their relationship for her novel According to Queeney.
- 11:45pm
Imagine...
Anselm KieferAlan Yentob joins Anselm Kiefer at his studios in France and Germany as he prepares for a retrospective at the Royal Academy.
- 12:50am
Great British Railway Journeys
Series 11 Episode 13: Witham to FelixstoweMichael Portillo's railway journey through 1930s Britain from Canterbury to Skegness reaches Witham in Essex. Here he visits the factory of the world's oldest supplier of metal framed windows which became popular in the thirties.
- 1:20am
Walking With..
Walking with Monica GalettiMonica Galetti takes in the dramatic landscapes of the North York Moors as she crosses the heather from Rosedale to Farndale, meeting locals along the way.
- 1:50am
An Art Lovers' Guide
Series 2 Episode 3: BakuBordering the Caspian Sea, Baku offers a tantalising mix of the ancient and modern - at the crossroads of east meets west, on the ancient silk trading route. It is also an authoritarian state, where cultural life is tightly controlled.
- 2:50am
Art That Made Us
Series 1 Episode 8: Brilliant IslesA look at how the generation of artists who recorded the shocks of global war gave way in the 1950s and 1960s to an explosion of new voices from across the British Isles, reinventing the arts and creating a richer, more diverse culture. Young artists rebelled against the old establishment, kicking against the confines of class, sex, nation and race.
- 3:50am
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 5:30am
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.