Bbc Four TV Series - Page 4
Glamour's Golden Age
2009
Glamour's Golden Age
2009
Series looking at the 1920s and 30s, which creates a portrait of an age so daring, influential and exciting that it still shapes who we are today.Party Animals
2007
star 6.9Party Animals presents Westminster from the ground up – the young researchers and advisors shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic, high-stakes world. It's no wonder their personal lives are so messy. Sons of an ex-Labour MP, Scott and Danny Foster have politics in their blood.Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies
2012
Series which celebrates an unlikely story of outstanding British aviation achievement at a time of national austerity, the breathtaking planes that were built and the remarkable men who flew them.Popular Voices at the BBC
2017
Companion programme to Gregory Porter's Popular Voices (2017) in which Gregory Porter introduces a selection of live performances culled from the BBC archives.Handmade: By Royal Appointment
2016
Four-part series following the making of four beautiful objects, handcrafted by companies with a royal warrant.The Art of Russia
2009
star 8Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon travels through time to unlock the world of Russian art.Hemingway
2021
star 7.4The visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. Interweaving his eventful biography with carefully selected excerpts from his iconic short stories, novels, and non-fiction, the series reveals the brilliant, ambitious, charismatic, and complicated man behind the myth, and the art he created.Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
2013
star 7.5Series celebrating the art of the cinema soundtrack, as Neil Brand explores the work of the great movie composers and demonstrates their techniques.The Read
2022
Crooked House
2008
star 6.7A ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house - Geap Manor - weaves together three ghost stories set during Georgian times, the 1920s and the present day.Vic and Bob's Big Night Out
2018
star 8Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer provide songs, sketches and silliness in buckets.Women in Love
2011
star 6.6Powerful adaptation of DH Lawrence's novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, focusing on the lives of two sisters as they struggle with love, passion and commitment in the build-up to WWI.Genius of the Modern World
2016
star 7.4Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
2010
A mini-odyssey along the coast from Cornwall to Wales in the company of the actor Timothy Spall and his wife Shane on their Dutch barge.The History of the World Backwards
2007
The History of the World Backwards is a comedy sketch show written and starring Rob Newman. It is a mock history programme set in an alternative world, where time flows forwards, but history flows backwards. It was shown on BBC Four, starting on 30 October 2007, and later shown on BBC Two. It was Newman's first television project for 14 years.Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World
2019
star 8Take a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic objects that modern people take for granted, and see how science, invention and technology built on one another to change everything.Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
2008
star 10From the pioneering work of Galen on Roman gladiators to the latest advances in plastic surgery, this five-part series illustrates the evolution of surgical techniques—a story as much of mishaps and misadventures as it is of successes and amazing advances. Filmed in America and Europe and presented by the charismatic and medically trained Michael J. Mosley. Contains surgical scenes of a graphic nature. A BBC Production. 5-part series.Archaeology: A Secret History
2013
star 10Dr Richard Miles seeks our ancient treasures and explores our relationship with the past.Queers.
2017
star 6A series of eight monologues set in the same pub over many years of gay history in response to the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act.The Live Lounge Show
2017
The Live Lounge Show
2017
Clara Amfo takes us behind the scenes of Radio 1's Live Lounge - the biggest live studio showcase in the world.
