BBC Four

A local police team investigates crimes within the close-knit island community of Shetland.

The Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.

The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by unearthing the fortune of a lifetime.

Journalists uncover a government conspiracy when a young politician's assistant and mistress is killed.

Two Canberra based brothers become entangled in a cover up that involves a remote outback community and key members of the Australian Government.

Chaos theory reveals how order emerges from disorder, explaining nature's patterns and complexity. Prof Al-Khalili shows how physics, not divine intervention, transforms simple systems into intricate structures like trees and humans.

Computer Scientist, Professor Cliff, thru philosophy, math, science and technology exhibits the quest for certainty/ fundamentals of sound reasoning.

Documentary following an investigation to solve the 'Jack the Stripper' murders, the biggest unsolved serial murder case in British criminal history.

This is the story of an unsung hero of photography: Harry Burton, the man whose images of the Tutankhamun excavation created a global sensation in the 1920s. Explore the spectacular locations where Burton worked, including Tutankh...

A look at how rock 'n' roll has had to deal with old age and aging within a music movements which once rejected the elderly.

Documentary featuring 100 years of archival footage recounting the stories of people whose lives have been affected by the border between Ireland and the UK.

Documentary-maker David Malone delves into the secrets of ocean waves. In an elegant and original film, he finds that waves are not made of water, that some waves travel sideways and that the sound of the ocean comes not from water but from bubbles. Waves are not only beautiful but also profoundly important, and there is a surprising connection between the life cycle of waves and the life of human beings.