Picture gallery: BBC Four

The BBC's latest digital channel, BBC Four, takes to the airwaves on 2 March.

Controller Roly Keating said the channel would offer a classic mix of programmes, with the arts and culture at the heart of the schedule.

BBC News Online has some snapshots of what will be on offer.

BBC Four gets off to a strange start with the drama-documentary Surrealissimo

Surrealissimo follows the bizarre "trial" of Salvador Dali (Ewan Bremner) by his fellow artists

On Sunday 3 March, the channel presents Township Opera - music from South Africa

Callow as Dickens: "The single play is alive and well on BBC Four," controller Roly Keating says

Taiwanese film A One and a Two: The channel will showcase foreigns films

The strange cult of Ceaucescu is examined in the documentary King of Communism