The BBC2 Four, whose mortal monikers are Jacob Bronowski, James Burke, Kenneth Clark, and Bryan Magee, are alternatively known as:

1. Britannia’s Best Brains
2. the British Broadcasting Bards
3. the Gifted Gurus of Gravitas
4. the Great Ones
5. the Monarchs of Meticulous Metaphor
6. the Philosophical Fab Four
7. the Quotable Quad of Quality Quips
8. the Time-traveling Titans of Television
9. and finally the BBC-M, this latter being constructed directly from their surname initials taken as they are ordered in the sentence above.