BBC FOUR
Ireland
BBC FOUR is available to viewers in Ireland through various television platforms. The channel focuses on arts, documentaries, music, and cultural programming, often featuring in-depth analysis of historical events, literature, and science. Its schedule includes a mix of British and international content, with an emphasis on factual storytelling and performance. BBC FOUR does not typically carry news bulletins, sports coverage, or children's shows, instead dedicating airtime to long-form documentaries and themed seasons. The channel broadcasts in English and can be accessed via satellite and cable services, as well as through online streaming options for subscribers in the region.
Lịch phát sóng
00:40 - 01:10
Secrets of Skin
Moving
Mini-Series, Documentary
Skin has evolved to enable animals to move through a range of habitats. Professor Ben Garrod explores how adaptations on and in the skin allow birds to fly, sharks to be built for speed and sugar gliders to take to the air.
01:10 - 01:40
Gareth Edwards' Great Welsh Adventure
St Davids
Travel, Outdoors
Shire horses, lifeboat heroes and a rugby team who train on the beach are among friends old and new that Gareth and Maureen Edwards meet on a trip away to St Davids, Pembrokeshire.
01:40 - 02:40
Ancient Worlds
City of Man, City of God
Documentary, History
Richard Miles examines the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. The material benefits of the 'good order' delivered by Roman rule provided its citizens and subjects with the security to ask profound questions about the meaning of life, questions that the Roman belief system was...
02:40 - 03:40
The Normans
Conquest
Documentary, History
Professor Robert Bartlett explores the impact of the Norman Conquest of Britain and Ireland. Bartlett shows how William the Conqueror imposed a new aristocracy, savagely cut down opposition and built scores of castles and cathedrals to intimidate and control. He also...
03:40 - 07:40
This Is BBC Four
Event
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
07:40 - 11:40
This Is BBC Four
Event
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
11:40 - 15:40
This Is BBC Four
Event
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
15:40 - 19:00
This Is BBC Four
Event
BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.
19:00 - 19:30
Secrets of Skin
Protection
Mini-Series, Documentary
Skin is the external barrier between animals and the outside world, protecting vertebrates from extremes of temperature, the harmful effect of UV and a host of living organisms that want to get in.
19:30 - 20:00
Gareth Edwards' Great Welsh Adventure
Brecon
Travel, Outdoors
Maureen has arranged a trip the spectacular Brecon Beacons. But it's not the usual walks amid epic mountain scenery on the agenda. In a first for both, the childhood sweethearts enlist in tank school. After donning cam cream and military gear, the couple get a lesson in...
20:00 - 20:50
How the Romans Conquered the Alps
Entertainment
In 15 BC, the Emperor Augustus set out to conquer Germania, but to pacify this northern territory, he needed to control a direct route through the unconquered Alps. Despite its importance, little was known about Augustus's Alpine campaign until researchers uncovered an ancient...
20:50 - 21:00
Building Sights
Trellick Tower
Documentary, Home & Garden
First transmitted in 1991, architect Sand Helsel applauds Trellick Tower, a Brutalist tower block in west London, designed by Ernő Goldfinger, and completed in 1972.
21:00 - 22:00
The Planets
The Godfather: Jupiter
Mini-Series, Documentary
Professor Brian Cox visits a planet that dwarfs all the others: Jupiter. Its enormous size gives it a great power that it has used to manipulate the other planets. Jupiter is not only the biggest but also the oldest planet in the solar system. It alone witnessed the birth of the...
22:00 - 23:00
The Singing Detective
Pitter Patter
Drama Series, Mini-Series
Forty years on, one of Marlow's fellow patients comes to the end of his Philip Marlow book as the day's visitors flood into the ward. And just as he is falling into a doze, Marlow senses the presence of his scheming ex-wife.
23:00 - 00:20
The Singing Detective
Who Done It
Drama Series, Mini-Series
The young Philip Marlow returns to the country railway station following his mother's death in London. Forty years on, Marlow the hospital patient still dreams about the homecoming and the frightening figure of the scarecrow that now erupts into the ward.