BBC Four HD | English Entertainment Shows (Page: 1)

This is BBC Four. Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

6/6. The natural world has always been a powerful inspiration to composers, and this programme takes us on an evocative journey through some of the best-loved musical responses. [S] [HD]

A programme from 1986 that follows the production of a new recording of the music from South Pacific, the classic musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. [S] [HD]

Omnibus documentary that follows the making of a classic recording as composer Leonard Bernstein conducts his celebrated musical West Side Story for the first time. Also in HD. [S]

Bryn Terfel sings a selection of his favourite Broadway songs. He is joined by mezzo-soprano Ruby Philoogene and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Sian Edwards. [S]

A documentary celebrating Lee Miller, a model turned photographer turned war reporter who defied anyone who tried to pin her down, put her on a pedestal or pigeonhole her in any way. The film's director, Teresa Griffiths, and editor, Clare Guillon, won the 2021 British Academy Television Craft Awards for Factual programs.

Documentary series that tells the stories of the extraordinary last survivors of the generation who fought or lived through World War II.

Seventy years on, some of Britain's best-loved entertainers and broadcasters recall the jubilation of VE Day and the years that followed. First broadcast in 2015. [S,AD] [HD]

Frank Auerbach talks about his work, produced from his small studio flat in London, in the year he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. [S]

For much of his career, Lucian Freud allowed his paintings to speak for themselves, but in 1988 he talked for the first time - to Omnibus - about his work and ambitions.