Browse the full BBC Four TV guide for Saturday, 17 October 2026. 10 programmes listed , including 7 tonight. UK listings updated daily — scroll down to tonight's highlights or use the day tabs above to browse the weekly schedule.
Early Morning
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02:15 30m
TOTP: 1989
Performances by Sinitta, Cliff Richard and Living in a BoxGary Davies hosts the edition first shown on October 12, featuring performances by Sinitta, Cliff Richard, Alice Cooper, Deborah Harry, Chris Rea, Richard Marx and Living in a Box -
02:45 30m
TOTP: 2000
Gail Porter presents the pop chart programmeGail Porter presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on June 9, 2000. With music by S Club 7, Stephen Gately, Pink, York featuring Chris Rea, Dr Dre and Eminem, Trevor and Simon, Mary Mary and Sonique -
03:15 45m
TOTP: 2000
Including music by York featuring Chris Rea, Daphne and Celeste, and moreGail Porter presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on June 16, 2000. With music by York featuring Chris Rea, Daphne and Celeste, Travis, Gabrielle, Angelic, Fat Les 2000, Kelis, Muse, B-15 Project, Whitney Houston and George Michael, Richard Blackwood and Sonique
Tonight's Highlights
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19:00 10m
The Ancient Briton Tree - Wild Britain
The Ancient BritonTed Green explores a 600-year-old oak treeTed Green uses a hydraulic hoist to propel himself amongst the 50,000 leaves of a 600-year-old oak tree in the grounds of Windsor Great Park. Through the use of time-lapse and macro photography the creatures who depend on it are revealed -
19:10 1h
The Unnatural History of London: Natural World
S30 · E14 · The Unnatural History of LondonLondon's secret wildlifeExploring the London's surprising and secret wildlife, including seals, parakeets, badgers, foxes and even pelicans who have made London their home. The programme also focuses on the admirers of these animals, from Billingsgate fish porters and Indian chefs to Crayfish Bob, who scours the canals for foreign species -
20:10 50m
Full Circle with Michael Palin
S1 · E2 · Japan and KoreaThe globetrotting presenter visits Japan and North and South KoreaThe globetrotting presenter arrives in Japan, where he meets a dedicated Monty Python fan, receives a beating in a Zen monastery, before visiting Nagasaki - where the second atom bomb was dropped in 1945. He then heads to the South Korean capital Seoul, where he attends a wedding ceremony, before briefly crossing the border into North Korea at the Joint Security Area in Panmunjeom -
21:00 45m
Talking Pictures: World Cinema Classics
World Cinema ClassicsExploring the work of five directing greatsCelia Imrie narrates a selection of interviews and key moments from the BBC archives featuring directors Akira Kurosawa, Agnès Varda, François Truffaut, Luis Buñuel and Ingmar Bergman. The programme shows how they and their groundbreaking films changed the language of world cinema, and showed those who came after them exactly what the movie camera was capable of achieving -
21:45 1h 30m
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23:15 30m
To the Manor Born
S2 · E5 · The Honours ListAudrey tries to foil DeVere's plansAudrey, Marjory and their Nature Conservancy friends try to foil DeVere's plans to change the countryside - but Mrs fforbes-Hamilton quickly changes allegiance when their plot is unsuccessful. Comedy, starring Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles -
23:45 30m
Keeping Up Appearances
S5 · E3 · Hyacinth Is AlarmedRichard forgets his wedding anniversaryRichard is forced to think on his feet when he forgets his wedding anniversary and tells Hyacinth he has arranged to have a security alarm fitted as a present. Social-climbing comedy, starring Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift
