SCIENCE FICTION BRITANNIA NIGHT
Friday 5 January 2007 8.30pm-2.30am
BBC Four's celebration of British science fiction draws to a close with an evening of some of the best of the programmes shown in the season.
MY SCIENCE FICTION LIFE
8.30pm-9.30pm
Documentary about the ways in which science fiction has influenced, shaped and enriched the lives of people in the UK. The programme is based on stories submitted to the BBC Four website, My Science Fiction Life. Visit the website My Science Fiction Life
RANDOM QUEST
9.30pm-10.30pm; rpt 1.30am-2.30am (signed)
Drama based on a John Wyndham story, in which a disenchanted physicist finds himself in a parallel world where he is a successful writer with a beautiful wife.
HOW TO BE SCI FI
10.30pm-11.30pm
Nigel Planer plays thespian Nicholas Craig in this comic class in science fiction acting. Lessons include how to play green slime and master the look of horror.
PARALLEL WORLDS (TIME SHIFT)
11.30pm-12.30am
This documentary examines the belief pervading much of science fiction that there is another world coexisting with Earth which is the same as ours, only different.
MACHINE MEN (TIME SHIFT)
Saturday 6 January 2007 12.30am-1.30am (Friday night)
An insightful look at the robotics in reality and science fiction, from Doctor Who to The Six Million Dollar Man.
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