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BBC Four Schedule

Crime Drama
Cardinal: Blackfly Season
Box Set. A deadly new case
A woman appears at a roadside bar. Who is she? How did she get there? And who shot her?
41 minsAvailable for 13 days
ARCHIVE
BBC Four Collections
Delve into the archives
From game shows to iconic interviews and Gothic literature, enjoy some BBC classics from across the decades.
Documentary
Dwarfs in Art: A New Perspective
How attitudes have changed
Richard Butchins explores how people with dwarfism have been represented in the arts.
59 minsAvailable for 29 days
Documentary
Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema
5/5 Horror. Face your fears
How horror works... the journey, the scary place, the monster and the chase.
59 minsAvailable for 11 months
Documentary
Britain's Lost Masterpieces
1/5 Finding a lost Rembrandt
Is it a copy or an original? Maybe only science can tell...
59 minsAvailable for 24 days
Documentary
What Do Artists Do All Day?
Raqib Shaw
Kitsch meets the Kashmir via a former sausage factory in Peckham.
29 minsAvailable for 22 days
Documentary
Mark Gatiss on John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art
59 minsAvailable for 26 days
Science
The Sky at Night
Death Star. A violent solar phenomenon could devastate Earth
Is modern technology prepared for an explosive eruption from the sun's surface?
29 minsAvailable for 25 days
History
The Stolen Maharajah: Britain's Indian Royal
A young royal is abducted
Queen Victoria's godson lived as a wealthy English gent before reclaiming his Sikh past.
59 minsAvailable for 21 days
Science
Impact! A Horizon Guide to Plane Crashes
Charting the deadly disasters that have helped make air travel safer.
59 minsAvailable for 25 days
Nature
Super Senses: The Secret Power of Animals
2. Sound
Patrick and Helen enter the hidden world of sound experienced by different animals.
59 minsAvailable for 18 days
History
Story of Ireland
2. The Age of Conquest
Fergal Keane charts Ireland's progress during the upheavals of the Middle Ages.
58 minsAvailable for 22 days
History
Bute: The Scot Who Spent a Welsh Fortune
The story of the 3rd Marquess of Bute and his architectural legacy in Scotland and Wales.
59 minsAvailable for 29 days
Science & Nature
Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
1. Spark
How pioneers unlocked electricity's mysteries and built strange instruments to create it.
59 minsAvailable for 25 days
History
Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death
1. A Good Birth
How the moment of labour and birth was a very dangerous time for a medieval woman.
59 minsAvailable for 23 days
History
Abducted - Elizabeth I's Child Actors
A gripping true story
How kids were kidnapped to perform on stage – and a father's fight to reclaim his son.
59 minsAvailable for 15 days
History
Ovid: The Poet and the Emperor
Michael Wood explores the life and poetry of one of the world's great storytellers - Ovid.
59 minsAvailable for 29 days
Documentary
There's Only One Madonna
Iconic, rebellious, successful
With contributions from Mel C, Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue... and her fans.
54 minsAvailable for 28 days

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