BBC Four Today Sunday 26 February 2023

Terry Wogan presents the start of the 1977 season of the inter-regional amateur dance contest, which sees couples from Midland and West taking on Home Counties South at the Locarno Ballroom, Bradford. There’s also a professional Latin American demonstration from David Douglass and Janice Barb, and Barry Haynes provides the commentary

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Ravel’s ballet score Daphnis and Chloé, and Olivier Messiaen’s series of songs Poèmes pour Mi, under the baton of Ryan Wigglesworth in his debut as chief conductor. From Glasgow’s City Halls

A look back at the glamorous heyday of the jet set, from the 1950s to the 1970s, examining a time when the notion of the rich and famous flying to exotic locations around the world was a source of fascination and admiration for the general public. Former racing driver Jackie Stewart, psychologist Dr Martin Dyer Smith, columnist Ross Benson and one-time Concorde pilot Christopher Orlebar are seen reflecting on society’s attitude to celebrity

In a documentary from 1973, poet Laureate John Betjeman takes a nostalgic look at the branch lines of the London Underground’s Metropolitan Line and their meanderings through suburban Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire

In the 1960s as a young expatriate Australian writer, Clive James discovered Paris, which he felt was his spiritual home. In this programme he returns to the city and meets the writers, the models and the actresses who were part of a different world in his youth, and also encounters the unchanging arch-enemy of any visitor – the Paris taxi driver

Mathematician Dr Hannah Fry is joined by actor Paul McGann and psychotherapist Philippa Perry to explore the technology, art and culture of the last years of Queen Victoria’s reign. In the first episode, Hannah investigates how innovations in science and technology – including the X-ray, safety bicycle and proto-aeroplane – transformed Britain in the 1890s, with the end of the 19th century marking the beginning of a new ‘Electric Age”

Two Russian film-makers follow the impact of the war inside their country. Their documentary finds that while thousands have fled, those that stayed have had to choose – to oppose, support or stay silent

The performer explores the transcendental powers of music and how certain sounds have the ability to move transport the mind and even help people briefly `escape the world”. Stuart travels to Morocco to discover the polyrhythms of Gnawa and back to Wells Cathedral to understand the mechanics of choral polyphony. He meets Kanye West collaborator Caroline Shaw to examine melody and the effect of the human voice, CeCe Winans to discuss the roots of Gospel, takes a gong bath in New York and visits minimalist master Steve Reich to unpack the trance inducing powers of repetition

In a documentary from 1973, poet Laureate John Betjeman takes a nostalgic look at the branch lines of the London Underground’s Metropolitan Line and their meanderings through suburban Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire