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When Hyacinth gets passionate about art, Daddy decides to join the Foreign Legion, and, as usual, Hyacinth's scruffy family let her down at the moment she's trying to make a good impression.

Victor is unable to sleep, and things get so desperate that he contemplates opening Ronnie and Mildred's Christmas present from last year.

Dr Helen Czerski examines the hottest natural phenomenon on the planet: lightning. Bolts of lightning five times hotter than the surface of the sun strike our planet over three million times every day, and yet relatively little is known about this force of nature.

Now that the rambling roses have finished flowering, Monty turns his attention to pruning and tying in new growth for a good display next year. On the 20th anniversary of the death of Geoff Hamilton, Adam Frost returns to the famous `Gardeners' World' location, Barnsdale, to pay...

Geoff Hamilton, Margaret Waddy and John Kelly present a programme from Barnsdale. Early August is an ideal time for propagation, and with this in mind, the team shows how to take softwood and semi-ripe cuttings and how to build a do-it-yourself propagator. Fuchsia expert John...

First shown in 1998 as a tribute to TV gardener Geoff Hamilton, this programme tells the history of the gardens he created in Barnsdale in Leicestershire.

David Attenborough looks at the history of reptiles, the first back-boned creatures to solve the problems of living high and dry on the land. Their waterproofed skin and sealed eggs enabled them to once rule the world.

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.

Dan Cruickshank explores the rich aesthetic of Ludwig II. From the mock-medievalism of Neuschwanstein the iconic fairytale castle, which became the inspiration for Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty castle, to the rich Baroque splendour of Herrenchiemsee, Ludwig's answer to...

A lyrical and thought-provoking portrait of the harsh beauty and surprising wildlife of Scotland's Cairngorms National Park, filmed over the course of a year. The Cairngorms is Britain's largest and wildest National Park, a land of arctic extremes in the heart of the Scottish...

Rising star Sueye Park dazzles with her proms debut, playing the Sibelius Violin Concerto with John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Her wildly virtuosic exploration of the Nordic landscape clearly demonstrates how Park won the prestigious 13th International Jean...

Actor Bill Paterson looks back on one of the earliest roles of his career, in the 1974 boundary-breaking television adaptation of John McGrath's play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil', which featured outdoor historical re-enactments of the notorious Highland...

The 1974 TV adaptation of John McGrath's iconic play about the exploitation of the Scottish people through history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom.