BBC Four Schedule
Schedule
Evening
19:00
World News Today—08/09/2014
The latest news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.
19:30
Great British Railway Journeys—Series 5, Southampton to Basingstoke
11/20Michael Portillo learns to set the table aboard a luxury liner and visits Basingstoke.(R)
20:00
Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
British POWs and their Japanese captors tell the story of one of WWII's worst atrocities.(R)
21:00
Abstract Artists in Their Own Words
The story of abstract art in Britain through the words of some of its leading lights.
22:00
The Rules of Abstraction with Matthew Collings
Critic Matthew Collings charts the rise of abstract art over the last 100 years.
23:30
Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities—New York 1951
James Fox tells the story of New York in 1951, where the world we know today was born.(R)
Late
00:30
Survivors: Nature's Indestructible Creatures—The Great Dying
1/3Richard Fortey focuses on a series of cataclysms over a million-year period.(R)
01:30
The Wonder of Animals—Ants
4/12Chris Packham explores how ants have collaborated to achieve their global success.(R)
02:00
The Beauty of Anatomy—The Hunter Brothers
4/5How the Hunter brothers transformed both medicine and art in 18th-century Britain.(R)
02:30
The Rules of Abstraction with Matthew Collings
Critic Matthew Collings charts the rise of abstract art over the last 100 years.(R)
