BBC Four schedule live
The full BBC Four TV schedule for today (Ireland), hour by hour. Where to stream BBC Four live online.
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Shows on BBC Four
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Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
1/6. Professor Ben Garrod explores how versatile the basic skin structure truly is, revealing how slight adaptations have created birds' feathers and a rhinoceros's horn. [S] [HD]
3/5. It's a scorcher as Gareth Edwards and wife Maureen get to the seaside resort of Llandudno. [S] [HD]
Scientists explore if the destructive impacts of asteroids on Earth four billion years ago may have provided the essential ingredients needed for life to ignite on our planet. [S,A
Writer Alan Bennett wanders through the architecturally exotic County Arcade in Leeds, designed by Frank Matcham in 1900. [S]
2/5. Professor Brian Cox continues his tour of the solar system, revealing that it was once home to not one, but two blue planets. [S,AD] [HD]
Alison Steadman looks back at Dennis Potter's influential TV drama series The Singing Detective, once described by Stephen King as 'television's Citizen Kane'. [S] [HD]
3/6. Marlow thinks back to his childhood and remembers seeing his mother having illicit sex. Contains some scenes of a sexual nature. [S]
1/2. Professor Jim Al-Khalili shows how mathematicians and scientists such as Euclid, Galileo and Ole Roemer have used light to reveal almost everything we know about the universe.
Seven paratroopers are sent on a seemingly impossible mission. [1968] [S] [HD]
Lauren Laverne presents the Mercury Prize Album of the Year from the Newcastle Arena. Contains some strong language and scenes of flashing images. [S] [HD]
Classic, darkly comic Hitchcock thriller in which an adman is pursued both by spies, who mistake him for a double agent, and by the police, who think he is an assassin. [1959] [S]
1/4. In 1977, the police encounter activity in Enfield that remains hard to explain. [S,AD] [HD]
2/4. When Andrea Perron moves into her new home in Rhode Island, she and her family start to experience multiple disturbances, hearing whispers and seeing visions. [S,AD] [HD]
Gail Porter presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 23 June 2000 and featuring Mary Mary, Darude, Moby, Jamelia, Idlewild, Macy Gray and Black Legend. [S]
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