BBC Four HD Monday, 18 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.- 4:10am
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 6:30am
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 10:30am
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 2:30pm
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 6:30pm
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 7:58pm
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
- 8:00pm
Top of the Pops
Christmas Day 1986Peter Powell presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on Christmas Day 1986. Featuring Billy Ocean, The Communards, a-ha, Europe, Doctor and the Medics, Cliff Richard & The Young Ones, Spitting Image, Boris Gardiner, Diana Ross, Berlin, Simply Red, Nick Berry, Falco, George Michael and Pet Shop Boys.
- 9:00pm
Keeping Up Appearances
The Father Christmas SuitHyacinth decides that, because it is Christmas, Richard should distribute gifts to the old people at the Church Hall dressed as Santa Claus. When Richard gets incredibly drunk with Emmet, however, Elizabeth decides to take his place in the costume, with disastrous consequences.
- 9:30pm
To the Manor Born
Series 1 Episode 8: The First NoelChristmas comes but once a year. Perhaps on the Grantleigh estate, that is just as well, as Audrey is determined to carry out her responsibilities as though she still lived at the manor.
- 10:00pm
'Allo 'Allo!
Series 2 Episode 7: The Gateau From the ChateauThe Resistance decide that their operations will be inhibited by General Von Klinkerhoffen's personal control of the district, and decree that he must be blown up. The Colonel comes to a similar conclusion, deciding on poison, while Herr Flick elects to terminate the General's appointment with a poisoned dart.
- 10:50pm
Billy Connolly: A Scot in the Arctic
`The Big Yin' embarks on a big adventure, as comedian Billy Connolly ventures from stage to ice, a frozen Arctic Ocean inhabited by ten-foot polar bears. The Scots mirth-maker is armed only with a small flimsy tent, a video camera and a BBC film crew. Not an ideal way to spend a week.
- 11:35pm
Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland
Series 1 Episode 1A look at the life and influences of Billy Connolly, featuring Eddie Izzard, Ross Noble, Micky Flanagan, Lord Grade, Tracey Ullman, A L Kennedy, Val McDermid, Sharleen Spiteri and Eddi Reader. Showing a true reflection of his far influence and still maintaining his unique but personal approach to comedy.
- 12:35am
Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland
Series 1 Episode 2Billy goes back to the Scotland of his childhood where he reveals that knitted woolly swimming trunks were not a figment of his imagination. Featuring personal accounts and interviews from famous faces Billy's life.
- 1:35am
What We Were Watching
Christmas 1988Grace Dent looks at the television shows that Britain's viewers were watching over the Christmas period of 1988, focusing on that week's TV schedules to explore how TV offerings change over the festive season, and how the nation's viewing expectations have changed over three decades.
- 2:35am
Top of the Pops
Christmas Day 1986Peter Powell presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on Christmas Day 1986. Featuring Billy Ocean, The Communards, a-ha, Europe, Doctor and the Medics, Cliff Richard & The Young Ones, Spitting Image, Boris Gardiner, Diana Ross, Berlin, Simply Red, Nick Berry, Falco, George Michael and Pet Shop Boys.
- 3:40am
Hope Street
Series 3 Episode 3As Ryan and Marlene investigate the theft of £10,000 in used bank notes, Clint's criminal brother Sly pitches up in Port Devine. He's on a mission to tempt Clint back on tour, reviving their country and western band.
- 4:25am
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.