BBC Four schedule

Anita Brookner shares her unique insights on works by the world's greatest painters. [S]

Dan Cruickshank presents a documentary revealing the story of the Dalai Lama, his secret Himalayan kingdom and his exile, using eyewitness accounts and colour archive footage. [S]

Archaeologist Ben Robinson explores London, the ultimate 'city of villages', including a new breed of urban villages like Crouch End and Walthamstow. [S] [HD]

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]

2/6. Ben Garrod discovers how the skeleton has adapted for vertebrates to move on land in many ways and explores the role of the spine in both cheetahs and snakes. [S] [HD]

3/4. Timothy Spall and his wife Shane take their barge to three different countries and visit Rafe Spall on the Isle of Man. In Belfast, Tim visits one of his favourite pubs. [S,AD]

Documentary film that investigates the importance of caves throughout British history and heads inside the deepest shaft ever discovered in Britain - Titan. [S] [HD]

Artist Derek Jarman returns to his former art master's house in Wimborne, Dorset, which he helped to build. [S]

3/3. How we develop new skills, from riding a bike to learning to walk. [S,AD] [HD]

A strange young man turns up on Elizabeth's doorstep and makes a frightening claim. Dennis Potter's play starring Tim Curry, Anna Cropper and Bob Hoskins. [S]

Alice Roberts swims in cavernous plunge pools, languid rivers and underground lakes to examine the passion for wild water swimming, following the classic swimming text Waterlog. [S] [HD]

3/3. How generals have struggled to kit out their armies for battle. [S] [HD]