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Audrey helps Richard to catalogue his antique China, but one valuable piece mysteriously disappears. Suspicion falls on Audrey when she suddenly appears to be spending money liberally.

When Hyacinth volunteers to help with a senior citizens' day trip to the coast, she has to enter into the spirit of things rather more than she had envisaged.

A professor develops an extraordinary relationship with an octopus when he invites it to live in his home. The octopus, called Heidi, unravels puzzles, recognises individual humans and even watches TV with the family.

When Lee Miller returned to New York from Europe in October 1932, newspaper reporters were waiting to greet her as her ship docked. Disembarking in a smart beret and fur-collared coat, she smiled for the journalist from the New York World-Telegram. When he referred to her as...

BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.

BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.

BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.

BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.

Fusing biography, art and the history of fashion, Amber Butchart explores the lives of historical figures through the clothes they wore. Here, she looks at Dutch painter Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait.

The search for the next classical music superstar begins. For more than four decades, this competition has celebrated the very best emerging musical talent from across the UK.

The Bayeux Tapestry is a remarkable and unique work of art that has survived for almost 1,000 years. Made in the 11th century, it tells the story of William of Normandy's claim to the English throne, culminating in the Norman invasion of England and the Battle of Hastings.

David Bamber looks back on the BBC adaptation of Kevin Elyot's play My Night with Reg.

The AIDS-related death of a friend brings together a group of gay men (David Bamber, Anthony Calf) who slept with him.