Most Viewed From BBC Four

Geologist Dr Iain Stewart presents a series showing how the rocks beneath our feet have shaped the human history of the Mediterranean.

Historian Lucy Worsley presents a series marking the 200th anniversary of one of the most explosive and creative decades in British history, the...

The Book Quiz is a literary panel show. The first series, broadcast in 2007, was hosted by David Baddiel with a second 2008 series was hosted by...

Julia Bradbury dons her walking boots to explore her own British backyard, travelling along the country's network of canals and their accompanying...

Series combining human stories, expert interviews, book illustrations and historic archive to reveal the beauty of books.

Series showing how new camera technology is revealing the inner workings of the Earth's most spectacular natural wonders.

Series looking at the 1920s and 30s, which creates a portrait of an age so daring, influential and exciting that it still shapes who we are today.

Steve Backshall explores the world of insects and their close relatives, the arachnids and crustaceans, in order to find out more about their habits...

James May follows a year inside Hornby Hobbies – an iconic British toymaker on the brink of collapse.

The show follows the Walshes, a tight-knit family living in the fictional West Dublin suburb of Strollinstown.

An exploration of the work of Britain's greatest fell walker and author, Alfred Wainwright.

Rich Hall's Cattle Drive is a television sitcom starring Rich Hall and Mike Wilmot. It was broadcast in 2006 in the United Kingdom on BBC Four, and...

Documentary series about Albert Kahn's photographic Archive of the Planet. For a quarter of a century, Kahn supplied a team of photographers with...

We live in a world ablaze with colour. Rainbows and rainforests, oceans and humanity, Earth is the most colourful place we know of. But the colours...

Offers a reappraisal of "yacht rock", a critically neglected era of music popularized by a boom in FM radio stations and its smooth sound. The...

This 3 part series is presented by the British Art Critic, Andrew Graham-Dixon. He explores the Low Countries of the Netherlands and Belgium and how...

Birds Britannia is a four-part BBC Four television series about the birds of the United Kingdom, first shown in 2010. It was produced by Stephen...

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

Series in which explorer Paul Rose celebrates the achievements of famous seamen and explorers