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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops
Long-running music chart show featuring videos and performances

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Only Connect

Only Connect
Quiz show in which connections must be made between apparently unconnected things.

BBC 4

Storyville

Storyville
Series showcasing the best in international documentaries

BBC 4

Natural World

Natural World
Wildlife series. In-depth stories of incredible animals with award-winning photography.

BBC 4

Arena

Arena
Arena is the BBC's multi award-winning arts strand

BBC 4

The Sky at Night

The Sky at Night
Your monthly journey through the fascinating world of space and astronomy.

BBC 4

Parkinson

Parkinson
Michael Parkinson presents the long-running talk show

BBC 4

Remembering...

Remembering...
Famous names reflect on making some of TV's most popular and influential programmes.

BBC 4

Timeshift

Timeshift
Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history.

BBC 4

Digging for Britain

Digging for Britain
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs

BBC 4

The Good Old Days

The Good Old Days
Songs and sketches of the music hall era performed by modern-day performers.

BBC 4

Call My Bluff

Call My Bluff
Celebrity contestants try to identify the correct definitions of obscure words.

BBC 4

Face the Music

Face the Music
Game show that invites viewers to match their musical wits against a celebrity panel.

BBC 4

Omnibus

Omnibus
Long-running arts documentary strand.

BBC 4

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
A drama series based on characters from a novel by David Cook

BBC 4

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Dance Rebels: A Story Of Modern Dance

Dance Rebels: A Story Of Modern Dance - Episode 31-05-2026

Episode 31-05-2026

Documentary which tells the compelling story of the mavericks like Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch, whose radical ideas created modern dance in t ...

31-05-2026

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Digging For Britain

Digging For Britain - Series 7: 1. North

Series 7: 1. North

Professor Alice Roberts celebrates the biggest and best archaeological discoveries of 2018 from the north of the UK. Each digging team has been filming its own excavations, givi ...

01-06-2026

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Wildlife On One

Wildlife On One - African Penguin: Cool Bird In A Hot Spot

African Penguin: Cool Bird In A Hot Spot

David Attenborough narrates a programme which follows several thousand pioneering young penguins as they invade Boulders Beach, a busy resort in Cape Town, in an attempt to esta ...

31-05-2026

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Art Of America

Art Of America - 1. Looking For Paradise

1. Looking For Paradise

In the first episode of a series exploring the history of American art, Andrew Graham-Dixon embarks on an epic journey from east to west, following in the footsteps of the pione ...

01-06-2026

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The Magic Of Dance

The Magic Of Dance - Series 1: 5. The Magnificent Beginning

Series 1: 5. The Magnificent Beginning

The first real ballet school was founded by King Louis XIV of France in 1669. From Louis's great palace at Versailles, Margot Fonteyn tells the story of Louis's own love of danc ...

31-05-2026

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Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost In Time

Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost In Time - Episode 01-06-2026

Episode 01-06-2026

Professor Alice Roberts joins the team excavating a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age village in the Cambridgeshire Fens that has been called the British Pompeii.\n \nThe village earned ...

01-06-2026

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Michael Palin And The Mystery Of Hammershoi

Michael Palin And The Mystery Of Hammershoi - Episode 31-05-2026

Episode 31-05-2026

With a passion for art that is rivalled only by travel, Michael Palin combines both in a European journey to discover more about Vilhelm Hammershoi, an enigmatic Danish artist t ...

31-05-2026

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Poems In Their Place: Thomas Hardy

Poems In Their Place: Thomas Hardy - Episode 31-05-2026

Episode 31-05-2026

Dr Robert Gittings explores the relationship between poems and the places they were written. He visits Sturminster Newton, where Thomas Hardy enjoyed two very happy years.

31-05-2026

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American Visions

American Visions - 2. The Promised Land

2. The Promised Land

Robert Hughes explains how America was shaped by Europeans - Spaniards in the south west, Pilgrims in the north east and struggling Cavaliers in Virginia - who saw the New Worl ...

01-06-2026

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