Most Viewed From BBC Four

Trainspotting Live will bring three nights of spotting, joy and excitement to BBC Four as Peter Snow, mathematician Dr Hannah Fry and engineer Dick...

Evolutionary biologist and master skeleton builder Ben Garrod looks at how bones have enabled vertebrates to colonise and dominate practically every...

An exploration of the history of bohemians - weird and wonderful artists and writers who have chosen to defy convention, from radical romantics to...

Damien Trench is a neurotic cookery writer, living in Queen's Park with his partner, Anthony. The show focuses on Damien and everything that happens...

Documentary series looking at maps in incredible detail to highlight their artistic attributions and reveal the stories that they tell.

In this "entertaining medical series" (The Sunday Times, U.K.), Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and changed the...

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo host a weekly guide to the best (and worst) of streaming culture in the 21st century, across film and premium television.

Julia Bradbury takes a series of walks following the old tracks, overgrown cuttings and ancient viaducts of Britain's lost rail empire.

Beautiful Minds is a BBC documentary series shown on BBC Four, which features significant British scientists who describe their big moment or...

Historian Lisa Hilton discovers how, in just fifty tempestuous days, Charles I’s rule collapsed, laying the foundations for civil war, the loss...

Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief – known in the United States as A Brief History of Disbelief – is a 2004 television documentary...

Rageh Omaar visits Spain, Sicily and France to discover the history of Islam in Europe

Series which celebrates an unlikely story of outstanding British aviation achievement at a time of national austerity, the breathtaking planes that...

Precision: The Measure of All Things is a three-part British television series outlining aspects of the history of measurement. It was originally...

Series looking at aspects of British metalworking over the centuries, including the art of the silversmith, the history of armour and the work of the...

The History of the World Backwards is a comedy sketch show written and starring Rob Newman. It is a mock history programme set in an alternative...

After Dark was a British late night live discussion programme broadcast on Channel 4 television between 1987 and 1997, and on the BBC in 2003....

Dr Helen Czerski goes on a spectacular journey to the extremes of the temperature scale, where everyday laws of physics break down and a new world of...

Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents a three-part series that illuminates the history of the sacred, and peerlessly beautiful city -...

Historian Benjamin Woolley unravels the cultural and social significance of popular games in Britain from the Iron Age to the Information Age.