BBC Four Collections
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, Janet Street-Porter and David Attenborough selecting various programmes from the BBC Archive to be made available on the iPlayer service. Every programme is marked with a short introduction marking the collection with BBC Four branding. Each collection has a particular theme like modern classical music, the British Army and interviews with famous figures. Some collections were established in 2012, more being added to the service until 2014. As of 2023, most of the content is still available on the iPlayer service, with some becoming unavailable due to rights or other reasons, like the Tim Westwood sexual assualt allegations.
List of collections
Only collections with a noted author (mentioned at the start of each programme) are included in this list.
| Expert | Collection | Year | Programme | Episode Title | Available as of 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Urban | Army: A Very British Institution | 1968 | Breakaway | 5. "My Friends Think I'm Mad" | Yes |
| 1990 | Everyman | "A Game of Soldiers" | |||
| 1977 | In Her Majesty's Service | 6. Corporal of Horse Christopher Slater | |||
| 1989 | In the Highest Tradition | N/A, 6 episode series | |||
| 1989 | Inside Out: Ticking with the Crow/The Officers' Mess | N/A | |||
| 1960 | Meet the Red Devils: Parachute Regiment | ||||
| 1985 | Moment of Truth | Episode 6 | |||
| 1969 | Omnibus | Makers of the Queen's Music | |||
| 1975 | Panorama | Sandhurst | |||
| 1983 | The Paras | N/A, 7 episode series | |||
| 1977 | The Regiment | N/A | |||
| Silver Jubilee | Review of the British Army | ||||
| Trooping the Colour | Silver Jubilee | ||||
| 1952 | 1952 | ||||
| 1974 | Tuesday Documentary | The Bomb Disposal Men | |||
| 1968 | Death or Glory | ||||
| Simon Jenkins | London | 1987 | Open Space | Bad Meaning Good | No |
| 1975 | Going Places | 12 | Yes | ||
| 1964 | A City Crowned with Green | N/A | |||
| 1950 | The Debate Continues | ||||
| 1946 | First-Year Flashbacks | ||||
| 1999 | Inside Story | Fish Tales | |||
| 1968 | One Pair of Eyes]] | Georgia Brown: Who are the Cockneys Now? | |||
| 1956 | Special Enquiry | A Girl Comes to London | |||
| 1960 | A House in Bayswater | N/A | |||
| 1969 | How They Dug the Victoria Line | ||||
| 1971 | Man Alive | Hyde Park | |||
| 1969 | I Love This Dirty Town | N/A | |||
| 1985 | Ours to Keep | Incomers | No | ||
| 1959 | After the Battle | London - Ed Murrow Reports | Yes | ||
| 1957 | Eye To Eye | London-New York | |||
| 1955 | Cities of Europe | London: We Live by the River | |||
| 1968 | Contrasts | Marble Arch to Edgware | |||
| 1976 | Inside Story | The Market | |||
| 1991 | Clive James | Postcard from London | |||
| 1985 | Just Another Day | Soho | |||
| The Tower of London | |||||
| 1996 | Modern Times | Streetwise | |||
| 1967 | Three Swings on a Pendulum | N/A | |||
| 1985 | To the World's End: Scenes and Characters on a London Bus Route | ||||
| Clemency Burton-Hill | Modern Classical Music | 2005 | Boulez at 80 | N/A | |
| BBC Proms 2005 | Michael Berkeley, Ben Britten & Vaughan Williams | ||||
| 1964 | Celebrity Recital | Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. | |||
| 2004 | John Cage Live at the Barbican | N/A | |||
| 1978 | Julian Bream Masterclass | N/A, 5 episode series | |||
| 2001 | Music Masters | Stockhausen | No | ||
| John Adams | Yes | ||||
| 1968 | Omnibus | Diaghilev: The Years Abroad | |||
| 2001 | ''Philip Glass Concert: Live at the Barbican | N/A | |||
| 2013 | The Sound and the Fury in Concert | N/A, 3 episode series | |||
| 1964 | War Requiem | N/A | |||
| Gary Boyd-Hope | Steam Railways | 1968 | 4472 - Flying Scotsman | N/A | |
| 1963 | Let's Imagine | A Branch Line Railway with John Betjeman | |||
| 1975 | The World About Us | The Romance of Indian Railways | |||
| 1986 | Steam Days | N/A, 6 episode series | No | ||
| 1979 | The Rainhill Story: Stephenson's Rocket | N/A | Yes | ||
| 1988 | The Train Now Departing | N/A, 6 episode series | No | ||
| 1969 | Tuesday Documentary | Engines Must Not Enter the Potato Siding | Yes | ||
| 1962 | In View | Men of Steam | |||
| 1980 | The Past at Work | Railway Mania | |||
| 1980 | The Great Railway Cavalcade: Rocket 150 at Rainhill | N/A | |||
| 1977 | With a Fine Feeling for Steam | ||||
| Robin Lane Fox | Archaeology at the BBC | 1956 | Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? | 3th May 1956 | |
| 1958 | 1st October 1958 | ||||
| 1960 | The Grandeur That Was Rome | N/A, 3 episode series | |||
| 1958 | Armchair Voyage: Hellenic Cruise | ||||
| 1974 | Sir Mortimer and Magnus | N/A, 6 episode series | |||
| 1966 | Chronicle | Vikings in North America | |||
| The Roman Goose March: The Holy Sailors | |||||
| 1973 | The Ape Man That Never Was | ||||
| 1954 | Buried Treasure | Stonehenge | |||
| 1956 | The Walls of Jericho | ||||
| 1958 | King Solomon's Mines | ||||
| 1957 | Mohenjo-daro | ||||
| 1954 | The Peat Bog Murder Mystery | ||||
| Julian Joseph | Blues | 1985 | Arena | Blues Night (5 episode series) | |
| 1979 | The Devil's Music (series 2) | N/A, 4 episode series | |||
| 1972 | Sounding Out | B.B. King |