BBC Four Schedule
Schedule
Evening
19:00
Sacred Music—Series 1, Palestrina and the Popes
2/4Simon Russell Beale explores Renaissance Rome and the music of the enigmatic Palestrina.(R)
20:00
Christmas Oratorio—Part 3
3/6Part 3 of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, directed by John Eliot Gardiner.(R)
20:30
Beeching's Tracks—North
6/6Adam Hart Davis takes a road trip along the ghost of the Beverley to York line.(R)
21:00
Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Ian Hislop looks at the 1963 Beeching Report, which closed a third of the UK's railways.(R)
22:00
Absolutely Chuffed: The Men Who Built a Steam Engine
How a group of enthusiasts tried to build a brand new mainline steam engine from scratch.(R)
22:30
Crooked House—Something Old
2/4In the 1920s, a costume ball and an engagement party lead back to a tragic wedding day.
23:00
Timeshift—Series 8, Last Days of Steam
How Britain entered a new age of steam railways after World War II and why it soon ended.(R)
Late
00:00
Timeshift—Series 8, Between the Lines - Railways in Fiction and Film
Andrew Martin examines how the train came to shape the work of writers and film-makers.(R)
01:00
Crooked House—Something Old
2/4In the 1920s, a costume ball and an engagement party lead back to a tragic wedding day.(R)
01:30
The Signalman
Charles Dickens's ghost story in which a signalman is haunted by a hooded figure.(R)
02:10
Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails
Ian Hislop looks at the 1963 Beeching Report, which closed a third of the UK's railways.(R)
03:10
Timeshift—Series 8, Last Days of Steam
How Britain entered a new age of steam railways after World War II and why it soon ended.(R)
