BBC4

A special edition of the show in which Charlie Brooker takes an impertinent look at American television. Featuring contributions from Lewis Black (The Daily Show) and Rob Long (Conversations With My Agent)

Satirical pastiche

Jiri Belohlavek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme featuring Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 23 (Richard Goode, soloist) and Bruckner’s Symphony No 9 in D minor. Presented by Charles Hazelwood. Director of the National Theatre Nicolas Hytner joins presenter Charles Hazelwood in the interval

The latest national and international news, exploring the day’s events from a global perspective

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme featuring Mozart’s Symphonies Nos 25 and 40, Hanspeter Kyburz’s Noesis and three Debussy Preludes orchestrated by Colin Matthews. Presented by Charles Hazelwood

Series telling the stories behind significant trees. Running parallel to a busy A-road in Scotland stands a wall of beech trees, around three-quarters-of-a-mile long and 120ft high. How did it become the biggest beech hedge in the world, and what is its link with Bonnie Prince Charlie? The programme explores this arboricultural phenomenon through the eyes of the local community

Conservation architect Ptolemy Dean scours Britain in search of The Perfect Village. This edition finds him in Silver End in Essex, a village built by the window manufacturer Francis Crittall for his employees in the 20s, and Poundbury in Dorset, the brainchild of the Prince of Wales

Seven-part dramatisation of John Le Carre’s classic thriller. 3: If Irina’s story is to be believed, there is a Russian double agent operating inside the Circus

Director Leslie Woodhead recalls his experiences as a 19-year-old National Serviceman in the late 1950s, when he was recruited for secret Russian language training. Along with 5,000 other young conscripts, he became a sleuth on the front line of the Cold War in Berlin, listening in on Soviet pilots, army units and naval exercises. Including interviews with Alan Bennett and Michael Frayn, who were part of the same project