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BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.It was launched on 2 March 2002 [1] and shows a wide variety of programmes including arts, documentaries, music, international film and drama, and current affairs. [2]
BBC Four Collections is a selected variation of factual television episodes and series available on British video-on-demand service BBC iPlayer.The collections themselves primarily involve "experts" like Richard Osman, [1] Janet Street-Porter [2] and David Attenborough [3] selecting various programmes from the BBC Archive to be made available on the iPlayer service.
Only channels where an episode first aired are listed (with the exception of episodes on non-BBC Three programmes which debuted online; for these) the linear channel and the transmission date on that channel are used. Children's television programmes can be found at List of BBC children's television programmes.
BBC America was launched on March 29, 1998, [4] presenting a mixture of comedy, drama and lifestyle programs from BBC Television and other British television broadcasters including ITV and Channel 4. In the channel's early days, it focused on repeats of popular lifestyle shows such as Changing Rooms and Ground Force.
The expansion of local radio services led to a gradual reduction of regional radio programmes (covering both the North West and Yorkshire areas from the Holme Moss transmitter) on what had now become BBC Radio 4. The last regional programme to be aired on Radio 4 North was an early-evening news opt-out on Friday 12 September 1980.
In 2004, the BBC began to broadcast New Year Live, which primarily featured live reports from the South Bank to cover the countdown to midnight. From 2006 to 2009, the special also featured music performances. Beginning in 2014, BBC One began to air concert specials as part of its New Year's Eve programming.
Britain's Lost Masterpieces is a factual BBC Four documentary television series that aims to uncover overlooked art treasures in British public collections, in conjunction with Art UK. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is presented by Bendor Grosvenor , along with art historian Jacky Klein (series 1) and Emma Dabiri (series 2 to 5).
Today, colloquially known as the Today programme, is BBC Radio 4's long-running morning news and current-affairs radio programme.Broadcast on Monday to Saturday from 06:00 to 09:00 (starting on Saturday at 07:00), it is produced by BBC News and is the highest-rated programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks. [1]