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It began broadcasting at 7pm on 2nd March 2002 with the slogan: “Everybody needs a place to think.” Among BBC Four’s opening-night offerings was a documentary on the artist Michael Landy’s work Break Down, in which the artist destroyed all 7,227 of his possessions. Twenty years on, it seems the BBC has entered its own breakdown, with BBC Four reduced to a home for repeats and occasional filmed performances: a place primarily to think about the past.