Bbc Four TV Series - Page 6
Glastonbury
2021
Glastonbury
2021
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over 900 acres, had over 385 live performances and was attended by around 150,000 people. While the villagers of Pilton have been complaining about the noise generated during the weekend for many years, in 2007 over 700 acts played on over 80 stages. Glastonbury was heavily influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement in the 1970s, especially the Isle of Wight Festival.Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths
2018
star 7.7Documentary series in which Dr Hannah Fry explores the mystery of maths. Is it invented like a language or is it discovered and part of the fabric of the universe?The Story of Maths
2008
star 7.5Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, escorts you through the most important of all intellectual disciplines: Mathematics, the Empress of the Sciences.Rich Hall's Fishing Show
2003
star 7Rich Hall's Fishing Show was a comedy programme written by and starring Rich Hall and Mike Wilmot. It was first broadcast on 11 November 2003 in the United Kingdom on BBC Four. It was repeated in the UK on Dave in 2008. The Fishing with the Corleones sequence involving the late Anita Roddick was omitted from the repeat. The show was set in the lochs of Scotland, on which Hall and Wilmot would go fishing. However, very few fish were caught, and the situation instead formed the setting for dialogue between the pair which would be vaguely themed on subjects like love or the Olympic Games. Some episodes featured sketches involving characters such as Bob, a decapitated limousine driver whose head had survived, and Charles Manson, a reclusive salesman who, despite his appearance, was not the convicted serial killer of the same name. Each episode would end with a celebrity guest who was invited on to the boat to talk and fish with the pair. At the end of each show, a celebrity guest would appear and talk with Hall and W10 Things You Didn't Know About...
2008
star 8Iain Stewart reveals some surprising facts about the world's most destructive and spectacular natural phenomena, from earthquakes and tsunamis to avalanches and volcanoes.Art of Scandinavia
2016
star 10Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the history of Scandinavia through its art.Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky
2005
star 5.3A story of unrequited love set in 1930s London, against the backdrop of grimy streets and public houses.Size Matters
2018
star 6Hannah Fry takes a spectacular look at the science of size by imagining a parallel world in which everything is made bigger or smaller.I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock
2019
Offers a reappraisal of "yacht rock", a critically neglected era of music popularized by a boom in FM radio stations and its smooth sound. The gleaming yacht sound was, in part, always defined by a group of LA-based session players and composers who worked across a range of yacht bands, informing their specific tone and level of musicianship. Some of these artists talk about the yacht phenomenon and being part of the scene back in the day. The series explores how the music adapted from the the bearded sensitivity of the '70s to the bombast of the MTV '80s, and how a satirical online drama contributed to a revival of interest and enthusiasm for these sounds in the digital era.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.The Beauty of Maps
2010
The Beauty of Maps
2010
Documentary series looking at maps in incredible detail to highlight their artistic attributions and reveal the stories that they tell.Skint
2022
star 3The grit, humour and courage of ordinary people in the bleakest of circumstances. Darkly comic, poignant and sometimes devastating monologues about life in poverty.British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
2017
star 6.5Lucy Worsley explores how British history is a concoction of fibs and stories manipulated by whoever was in power at the time.Britain by Bike
2010
Britain by Bike
2010
Clare Balding embarks on a pedal-powered odyssey across Britain to rediscover the magical world of 1950s cyclingCrooked 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.Mindful Escapes: Breathe, Release, Restore
2020
A bold new genre of programming for our times where guided mindfulness and stunning natural history footage go hand in hand to produce a series of immersive, relaxing films.Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015
The cover version has always been a staple of the pop charts. Yet it's often been viewed as the poor relation of writing your own songs. This film challenges and overturns that misconception by celebrating an exciting, underrated musical form that has the power to make or break an artist's career. Whether as tribute, reinterpretation or as an act of subversion, the extraordinary alchemy involved in covering a record can create a new, defining version - in some cases, even more original than the original.From Ice to Fire: The Incredible Science of Temperature
2018
star 7Dr Helen Czerski goes on a spectacular journey to the extremes of the temperature scale, where everyday laws of physics break down and a new world of scientific possibility begins.Timothy Spall: All at Sea
2012
Timothy Spall and his wife Shane are back on board their beloved barge the Princess Matilda as they conclude their trip around the British coast.
