Bbc Four Original TV Shows

Mark Gatiss examines the history of the horror film, from classic Hollywood monsters to Hammer's glory days and beyond.

The murder of a young political researcher leads to the discovery of complex links between government and big business.

A story of unrequited love set in 1930s London, against the backdrop of grimy streets and public houses.

Each year since 1824, the Royal Institution in London has hosted the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, a series of lectures on a single topic. Scientific subjects are presented to a general audien...

Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run si...

Party Animals presents Westminster from the ground up – the young researchers and advisors shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic, high-stakes world. It's no wonder their personal lives are so m...

Mark Kermode shows the film-making techniques behind classic movie genres, from romcoms to horrors.

Two-part TV drama based on the novel by John Cleland. Set in the 18th century, the story of a young country girl who through financial neccessity falls into prostitution.

Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various milestones throughout history. It has been broadcast...

Each week there is an art magazine show guest-edited by a different personality.

Britain's social and cultural history is the subject of a wide range of documentary series which offer a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.

Charlie Brooker's acerbic take on recent TV contains reviews of current shows, as well as stories and commentary on how television is produced.

In the series of intimate and immersive documentaries, familiar faces explore the landscapes of Yorkshire and Cumbria.

The three-part complementary series features eminent scientists, theologians and conservationists discussing the environmental and conservation issues at stake and asks how much of the world revealed ...

Lead Balloon is a British television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four. The series was created and is co-written by comedian Jack Dee and Pete Sinclair. It stars Dee as Rick Spleen...

Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.

The story of the discovery that everything is made from atoms, one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs in history, and the brilliant minds behind it.

Live BBC coverage of the Biggest Weekend music festival

Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to tell the extraordinary story of the dynasty that ruled the country for more than three centuries - the Romanovs.

When we look around our homes, sheds and garages we see an array of household objects that with one click of a button or twist of a knob will spring to life, and - most of the time - do exactly what w...

Electric Dreams is a BBC television documentary series, co-produced with The Open University, that places a family of two parents and four children in their home with only the amenities available duri...

Newswipe with Charlie Brooker was a British news review programme broadcast on BBC Four written and presented by Charlie Brooker. It is similar to Brooker's Screenwipe series which is also shown on BB...

Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

A young girl with a learning disability is making her way through her life.

The TV documentary is about something.

Professor Jim Al-Khalili investigates the important concepts of energy and information.

A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house - Geap Manor - weaves together three ghost stories set during Georgian times, the 1920s and the present day.

Take a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic objects that modern people take for granted, and see how science, invention and technology built on one another to change eve...

Never Mind the Full Stops is a British television panel game based on the English language, its idiosyncrasies, and its misuse. It is hosted by the British actor, author and Oscar-winning screenwriter...

Asian Invasion is a three-part mini-series presented by Jonathan Ross which aired on BBC Four in January 2006. Focusing on East Asian cinema, the series looked at some of the most famous films, actors...

Jump aboard with Robbie Cumming as he embarks on a 300-mile journey across the Midlands and northern England in his narrowboat.

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the history of Scandinavia through its art.

New camera technology is revealing the inner workings of the Earth's most spectacular natural wonders in a series.

Two-part documentary in which Jonathan Meades makes the case for 20th-century concrete Brutalist architecture in an homage to a style that he sees a brave, bold and bloodyminded. Tracing its precursor...

Twenty Twelve is a BBC television comedy series written and directed by John Morton. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes and Amelia Bullmore, the programme is a spoof on-location documentary follo...

Celebrity hosts guide viewers through William Shakespeare's plays in performance. Each episode serves as a primer for newcomers to Shakespeare while serving up enough historical and theatrical insight...

Dr Hannah Fry explores the mysteries of mathematics in a documentary series. Is it part of the fabric of the universe or is it a new invention?

Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.

How the universe began is the greatest question in science, according to Jim Al-Khalili. Jim is able to understand the mystery of science's creation story by replicating key experiments.

You can explore the breadth of music celebrated at the proms through this weekly television show. The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC are an eight-week summer season of daily orches...

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 scientific possibility begins.

From daguerreotype to digital, from portraits to photo-journalism, from art to advertising, is the history of photography explored in this documentary series.

Contest in which teams fight each other in virtual reruns of the world's greatest battles.

Four-man sketch show packed with surprise and invention - all delivered with a unique brand of joyful deadpan absurdity.

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