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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.
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
Earth's Tropical Islands
Series 1 Episode 3: Hawaii
This is a journey across Hawaii's varied islands, discovering how they were made, and the incredible wildlife that thrives there. Hawaii is the most remote island chain on earth, and its tropical shores are hard to reach. But for the hardy creatures that can make it here, like the waterfall climbing fish, carnivorous caterpillar and Laysan albatross, a land of opportunity awaits.
9:00pm
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
2023: Professor Mike Wooldridge - The Truth about AI
Professor Mike Wooldridge grapples with the future of AI in the third and final Christmas lecture. Although AI will create many opportunities, advances in AI have also raised fears. With the help of expert guests, Mike talks through the risks.
10:00pm
Bob Monkhouse: The Last Stand
Summer 2003 and Bob Monkhouse entertains a room full of comedians with stand-up, chat and a comedy masterclass. The night became the stuff of legend among comedians, but was never transmitted until now.
11:00pm
Talking Comedy
Series 1 Episode 2: Bob Monkhouse
A laughter-filled look back at Bob Monkhouse's appearances over the years on a selection of the BBC's best-loved talk shows, showcasing the magic that happens when conversation and classic comedy collide.
11:30pm
Nine to Five
Comedy (1980)
Office satire about three female secretaries who decide to get revenge on their tyrannical, sexist boss by abducting him and running the business themselves. The trio, one of whom has been passed over for promotion because she is a woman, spend a night together having drug-induced fantasies of killing the slave-driving chauvinist. One of them panics the following day when she suspects she really has poisoned the tyrant.
6.9IMDb
1:15am
The Singing Detective
Pitter Patter
Forty years on, one of Marlow's fellow patients comes to the end of his Philip Marlow book as the day's visitors flood into the ward. And just as he is falling into a doze, Marlow senses the presence of his scheming ex-wife.
2:15am
The Singing Detective
Who Done It
The young Philip Marlow returns to the country railway station following his mother's death in London. Later, Marlow the hospital patient dreams about the homecoming and a frightening figure of a scarecrow.
3:30am
Earth's Tropical Islands
Series 1 Episode 2: Borneo
In the heart of south east Asia lies the tropical island of Borneo. Twice the size of the British Isles, it is the third largest island on earth and home to possibly the greatest diversity of life of any island, from flying lizards sun bears to orangutans.
4:30am
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.