Channel Information
BBC 4 is available on SkyDigital and is mainly a factually based channel.
It is broadcast during the week between the hours of 8am and 2am and at weekends between 6am and 12 midnight. This channel has been designed to provide the depth and analysis that other TV stations just can't match, whatever your interests.
BBC 4 runs the best of the BBC's factual based programmes often in extended special editions. This channel also specially commissions new programmes which delve deeper into specialist areas of interest.
The schedule of BBC 4 is divided into five distinctive subjects across the week and provides the opportunity of repeats and highlights during the weekend.
Monday is History day. Tuesday looks to the future with Science and Technology Wednesday delves into the world of Business and Finance. Thursday takes you around the world with Languages and European Culture and Friday focuses on the Arts.
So whatever's stimulating your interest at the time, you'll know where to go to find out more.
BBC 4 has the added facility which is that every programme is enhanced by its own dedicated text pages that can be reached by a click of a button on your remote control. It's like having a massive reference library at your fingertips, with the content specially tailored to whatever's on your mind at the time. This enables you to take your interest way beyond television with an unsurpassed depth of information and research into thousands of specialist subjects. You can flick between the programme you're watching and the relevant pages, or you can pursue a subject in greater detail in your own time. This is one TV experience of which the viewer is totally in charge.
BBC 4 doesn't just stop there, you can also go Online by visiting the BBC 4 Web Site by clicking on the address below. This site offers a vast database of information to help you take your interests and knowledge further. It contains lists of organisations, contact names, calendars of events, noticeboards, interactive challenges and original online features.
- Postal Address:
- Television Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ
- Telephone:
- 020 8743 8000
- Web Site:
- Click here to visit the BBC 4 web site
What's on now on BBC 4
- The Sky at Night started at 3:00am
(4 Star) - Mars is the brightest thing in the sky and is at its closest to Earth for the next four years. With NASA announcing that its Martian rover Spirit is to rove no more on the red planet, there is an interview with Prof Steve Squyres, the principal investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, about the attempts to get it out of the sand dune which ensnared it in May 2009 and the agonising decision to stop the rescue.
View the complete BBC 4 TV guide
