BBC Four Thursday

Michael Portillo explores New South Wales, exploring the origins of Sydney as a penal colony, volunteering as a lifeguard and joining the lifeguards at Bondi Beach

On the last leg of his journey across England, Robbie Cumming crosses an epic aqueduct near Stratford-upon-Avon, and gets stuck in a lock in central Birmingham

Conclusion. Dan Snow examines the ways in which the Celts saved Britain from cultural oblivion during the Dark Ages

A journalist returns to the sleepy village where she grew up, becoming an object of obsession for every man in the neighbourhood. Comedy, starring Gemma Arterton and Dominic Cooper

Michael Hordern reads two poems by Thomas Hardy. First broadcast 26 May 1987

Author and critic Henry Hitchings explores the evolution of the novel in 18th-century Britain, and offers his view that it was a time of cultural revolution

James Fox journeys through six different landscapes across Britain, meeting artists whose work explores the human relationship with the natural world

The mountains and forests of northern Thailand, where unusual partnerships develop between animals and people

Michael Portillo explores New South Wales, exploring the origins of Sydney as a penal colony, volunteering as a lifeguard and joining the lifeguards at Bondi Beach

On the last leg of his journey across England, Robbie Cumming crosses an epic aqueduct near Stratford-upon-Avon, and gets stuck in a lock in central Birmingham

Conclusion. Dan Snow examines the ways in which the Celts saved Britain from cultural oblivion during the Dark Ages