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17 unusual facts about BBC Four


1957 FA Cup Final

In December 2007, BBC Four's Timeshift series screened a documentary, "A Game of Two Eras", which compared the 1957 final with its 2007 counterpart.

Bob Godfrey

He appeared on a number of programs and documentaries on animation over the years, including the BBC 2 documentary The Craftsmen and the documentary series Animation Nation, shown on BBC Four in 2005.

Charley's War

It was featured in "Boys and Girls," the second programme of Comics Britannia on BBC Four.

Charlie Resnick

However, in an interview on BBC Four on 7 November 2006 John Harvey mentioned that he was working on a new novel in the Resnick series.

Consuming Passion

It was shown for the first time on BBC Four at 9:00 p.m. on Sunday 2 November 2008, and starred Emilia Fox, Jodie Whittaker, Olivia Colman and Daniel Mays.

I've Never Seen Star Wars

I've Never Seen Star Wars (TV series), a television version of the original radio show, broadcast on BBC Four.

John Scott Whiteley

The project is called 21st century Bach, and began showing in sections on BBC Two and BBC Four.

Journeys into the Ring of Fire

Journeys into the Ring of Fire is BBC documentary series that first aired in 2006 on BBC One and has subsequently been rerun several times on BBC Four.

Leyburn

Leyburn has appeared in various television programmes including The Department Store: Milner's, on BBC Four in 2008, and the 1960s-set drama series, Heartbeat.

Light Fantastic

Light Fantastic (TV series), a BBC Four documentary television series about the history and discovery of light

Operatunity

The winners followed up with concert tours and at the end of the year joined to sing the children's duet from Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, broadcast on BBC Four, Christmas Day 2003.

Sarah Parcak

On December 31, 2013, she was the focus of Dan Snow's documentary "Rome's Lost Empire" on BBC Four, prospectively identifying several potentially significant sites including the arena at Portus; the lighthouse and a canal alongside the river Tiber directly to Rome.

Sudeley Castle

BBC Four featured an investigation into the castle on 27 June 2007 titled Crisis At The Castle.

The Last Duel

The Last Duel, a drama-documentary based on the book and including comments by Jager was broadcast by BBC Four as part of a medieval-themed season on April 24, 2008.

The Spies of Warsaw

The book was adapted for television in 2013, with the title Spies of Warsaw, a co-production of TVP1, BBC Four, BBC America, and ARTE, and premiered in January in the United Kingdom and in April in the United States.

Wabi-sabi

On 16 March 2009, Marcel Theroux presented "In Search of Wabi Sabi" on BBC Four as part of the channel's Hidden Japan season of programming.

Winnebago Man

A sixty-minute version of Winnebago Man was aired in the UK on BBC Four on August 30, 2010 as part of the Storyville series of documentaries.


Institute of Art and Ideas

Cultural highlights ranged from the likes of Ghostpoet, Mount Kimbie and The Correspondents, to comedy and the screening of documentaries from around the world with BBC Four.

Linda Stratmann

She has appeared in the Channel 5 television documentary, Scream, about the history of anaesthesia, Hypnosurgery Live on Channel 4, Medical Mavericks on BBC Four by Michael J. Mosley and an episode of "Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook".

Mary Ann Ochota

She co-presented the documentary Silbury: The Heart of the Hill for BBC Four with Neil Oliver about the neolithic mound Silbury Hill in Wiltshire.

Moore Moss Rutter

The trio also featured on BBC Four's 2012 documentary, 'Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?', narrated by Frank Skinner.

Nick Doody

He has appeared on BBC Radio 2, The Comic Side of 7 Days on BBC Three, and has written for 8 out of 10 Cats, The Late Edition (BBC Four), The Now Show (BBC Radio 4), Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (BBC Radio 4) and took his second solo show Hypocrite to the Edinburgh Festival in 2007.

Paul Kingsnorth

In recent years, he has written for or contributed to the Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Le Monde, New Statesman, Ecologist, New Internationalist, Big Issue, Adbusters, BBC Wildlife, openDemocracy, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC Four, ITV and Resonance FM.

Remember That Night

BBC One aired an hour of footage from the main concert on 8 September 2007, repeated on 25 May 2008 on BBC Four.

Robin Nash

He died on 18 June 2011, aged 84, during a season of repeats on BBC Four of editions of Top of the Pops that he had produced in 1976 and the day after the funeral of Flick Colby who had choreographed dance sequences for the show with, among others, Pan's People and Ruby Flipper.

Russell Davies

In 2003, Russell Davies wrote and presented Quest for Perfection, a film about jazz clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, for BBC Four and produced by John Warburton (shortlisted for the 2004 Grierson Award).

S4C Digital Networks

Other non-premium channels that were broadcast included BBC Four, CBeebies, BBC Red Button, QVC (and prior to that, Shop!), TV Travel Shop, Simply Money (now Simply Shopping), the ITN News Channel and an NTL EPG.