BBC Four HD Wednesday, 20 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.- 5:00am
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
25 December 1991Tony Dortie, Mark Franklin and Claudia Simon present a Christmas Special of the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 25 December 1991 and featuring Queen, Seal, Nomad, Chesney Hawkes, James, OMD, Kenny Thomas, Erasure, Right Said Fred and Oceanic.
- 9:00pm
Dinnerladies
Series 2 Episode 6: ChristmasHas poor Bren blown her chance with Tony? Anita has left her inflatable man behind.
- 9:35pm
Les Dawson on Christmas
The 1980 Christmas edition of Les Dawson's topical comedy sketch show, `The Dawson Watch', in which he appears as himself and in the guise of various characters.
- 10:00pm
Mike Yarwood at the BBC
Rory Bremner looks back at the life and career of Mike Yarwood, master of the imitation game and one of the BBC's most successful stars of the 1970s and 80s. Yarwood captured the British public's imagination with his huge range of impressions featuring the biggest names from the world of showbiz and politics.
- 11:00pm
Glenda Jackson Remembers... Elizabeth R
Double Oscar winner Glenda Jackson remembers the role that brought her back to television after the huge success she had found on the big screen - Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC's acclaimed six-part 1971 series Elizabeth R.
- 11:15pm
Elizabeth R
The Lion's CubIn the years before her accession at the age of 25, the young princess struggles to survive in the face of great danger.
- 12:40am
Elizabeth R
The Marriage GameUrged by both Parliament and her council, she considers several suitors, but only Lord Robert Dudley really interests her. And, unfortunately, he is already married.
- 2:10am
Elizabeth R
Shadow in the SunThe 1572 Paris massacre of the Huguenots has prompted Elizabeth to break off all relations with France. However, the French want an alliance with England against Spain, based on the marriage of Elizabeth to the Duc d'Alencon, the French king's younger brother. Elizabeth herself is not quite so keen.
- 3:40am
Top of the Pops
25 December 1991Tony Dortie, Mark Franklin and Claudia Simon present a Christmas Special of the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 25 December 1991 and featuring Queen, Seal, Nomad, Chesney Hawkes, James, OMD, Kenny Thomas, Erasure, Right Said Fred and Oceanic.
- 4:40am
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.