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BBC Four Schedule
Schedule
Evening
19:00
Timeshift—Series 15, How Britain Won the Space Race: The Story of Bernard Lovell and Jodrell Bank
How one man with ex-WWII army equipment turned a field into a key site in the space race.(R)
20:00
Nigel Slater's Icing on the Cake
Nigel Slater takes us on a journey exploring the earliest origins of cake in Britain.(R)
21:00
Arena—Night and Day
A new film made entirely from Arena's own archive, evoking the 24-hour daily cycle.
22:30
West
A single mother smuggles herself and her young son out of East Germany to the west.
Late
00:05
Operation Crossbow
How the Allies used 3D photographs to thwart the Nazis' superweapons.(R)
01:05
Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words
The story of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and the discoveries they made.(R)
02:05
How It Works—Ceramics
3/3How simple clay, sand and rock can build cities and transform the way we view our world.(R)
03:05
Natural World—2000-2001, Hippo Beach
Documentary about one of Africa's most dangerous animals, the hippo.(R)
