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BBC Four Schedule for Tuesday 23 December 2008

  1. 00:00–00:30
    Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement perform several of their best and silliest songs. (R)
  2. 00:30–01:00
    7 days left to watch
    Humphrey Lyttelton's final I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue at the Lowry Centre's Lyric Theatre. (R)
  3. 01:00–01:30
    7 days left to watch
    1/3. In 1786, a man with shady business ethics hears ghastly sounds in his drawing room. (R)
  4. 01:30–02:10
    Adaptation of the classic ghost story by MR James. (R)
  5. 02:10–03:45
    7 days left to watch
    Documentary tracing the history of the comedy pop song from the 1950s to the present. (R)
  6. 03:45–04:25
    Adaptation of the classic ghost story by MR James. (R)
  7. 19:00–20:00
    2/4. Simon Russell Beale explores Renaissance Rome and the music of the enigmatic Palestrina. (R)
  8. 20:00–20:30
    3/6. Part 3 of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, directed by John Eliot Gardiner. (R)
  9. 20:30–21:00
    6/6. Adam Hart Davis takes a road trip along the ghost of the Beverley to York line. (R)
  10. 21:00–22:00
    Ian Hislop looks at the 1963 Beeching Report, which closed a third of the UK's railways. (R)
  11. 22:00–22:30
    How a group of enthusiasts tried to build a brand new mainline steam engine from scratch. (R)
  12. 22:30–23:00
    2/3. In the 1920s, a costume ball and an engagement party lead back to a tragic wedding day.
  13. 23:00–00:00
    6 days left to watch
    How Britain entered a new age of steam railways after World War II and why it soon ended. (R)
  14. 00:00–01:00
    Andrew Martin examines how the train came to shape the work of writers and film-makers. (R)
  15. 01:00–01:30
    2/3. In the 1920s, a costume ball and an engagement party lead back to a tragic wedding day. (R)
  16. 01:30–02:10
    Charles Dickens's ghost story in which a signalman is haunted by a hooded figure. (R)
  17. 02:10–03:10
    Ian Hislop looks at the 1963 Beeching Report, which closed a third of the UK's railways. (R)
  18. 03:10–04:10
    6 days left to watch
    How Britain entered a new age of steam railways after World War II and why it soon ended. (R)

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