BBC Four HD | English Entertainment Shows (Page: 2)

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.

Experimental film by Rosi S.M.

Kate Garraway walks through the Cotswold countryside and describes the joy and solace that nature brings as she takes in the inspiring views of Gloucestershire. Also in HD. [S]

The biggest bands on the buzzing UK scene play in a new edition of the iconic jazz show. [S] [HD]

Celebrating the competition's tenth anniversary, four talented young performers compete for the title BBC Young Jazz Musician 2024. [S] [HD]

Poverty and passion collide in Puccini's operatic masterpiece, La bohème, performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Also in HD. [S]

...play Puccini at the Proms. The Hallé Orchestra perform Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. [S] [HD]

Professor Mary Beard looks beyond the stories of emperors, armies, guts and gore to meet the everyday people at the heart of Ancient Rome's vast empire.

In this four-part series classicist and historian, Professor Mary Beard draws on her immense scholarship, unique viewpoints and myth-busting approach to Roman history, to give her definitive take on the Roman Empire. How and why did it happen? In search of answers, she takes us to the most telling sites and the most revealing artifacts, and she examines the legacy the Roman Empire has left behind.

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (12-41), nicknamed Caligula? Professor Mary Beard explains what is accurate and what is mythical in the historical accounts that portray him as an unbalanced despot. Was he a sadistic tyrant, as Roman historians have told, or perhaps the truth about him was manipulated because of political interests?

The filmmaker portrays the rise and fall of the Roman Empire characterised by the eras of events witnessed in the Colosseum.

A Storyville documentary following the exploits of a five-year-old boy growing up in an Indian Himalayan village where he is taunted for being mixed race. [S] [HD]