Program
00:00 - 00:50
Japan's Master of Restoration
The Four Legs
The father and son undertake the restoration of a ceramic horse from the Edo period. A previous restoration is now showing signs of age, and a new approach is needed to give the horse back its stallion stance.
00:50 - 01:20
The Sky at Night
The UK Space Race
The team investigates the science and engineering helping the UK blast into space. While Chris visits a rocket company near Glasgow, Maggie is given a preview of Britain's National Satellite Testing Facility.
01:20 - 02:20
The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family
Ambition
Thomas Boleyn, the patriarch of the Boleyns, is determined to elevate the family name. His ambitions for his three children will take them to the heart of the Tudor court.
02:20 - 02:50
Fred Dibnah's Building of Britain
Building the Canals
Fred Dibnah's search to discover how the work of the engineers of the past helped to shape Britain brings him close to his home town of Bolton, where the mid-18th century saw the building of the first canals.
02:50 - 03:20
The Lakes with Paul Rose
Windermere
Explorer Paul Rose digs out his rucksack and heads for Windermere. The National Park attracts 18 million visitors a year, and Paul joins the crowds and finds out why early tourists thought the Lakes was one of the most dangerous spots in the country.
03:20 - 04:20
Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics
Making Sound
Helen begins by exploring the simplest of ideas: what is a sound? At the Palace of Westminster, Helen teams up with scientists from the University of Leicester to investigate how Big Ben's distinctive sound is created.
04:20 - 08:20
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
08:20 - 12:20
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
12:20 - 16:20
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
16:20 - 20:00
This Is BBC Four
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
20:00 - 20:30
Fred Dibnah's Building of Britain
Victorian Splendour
Fred Dibnah shows how steam-powered machinery helped build Herefordshire's Eastnor Castle, and has a look at the work of Augustus Welby Pugin.
20:30 - 21:00
The Lakes with Paul Rose
Derwentwater
Explorer Paul Rose packs his waterproofs and heads for Derwentwater and Borrowdale. Borrowdale is officially the wettest place in England, and he meets those who have battled against flooding and have learned to live with extreme weather events.
21:00 - 22:00
Operation Grand Canyon With Dan Snow
Dan Snow and his team continue down the Grand Canyon in antique wooden boats as they rediscover one of the Wild West's great adventures.
22:00 - 23:00
Lost Home Movies of Nazi Germany
Christmas in Germany 1941 is an unsettling time. Food is scarce, the weather is freezing and news from the front line in Russia is causing Germans to realise the war is a very long way from over.
23:00 - 23:15
Remembers...
Andrew Davies Remembers... Middlemarch
Screenwriter Andrew Davies looks back on his acclaimed 1994 adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch.
23:15 - 00:40
Middlemarch
Lydgate's appointment to direct the new fever hospital stirs jealousy among his rivals; Dorothea and Casaubon honeymoon in Rome.
