Just after the fourth anniversary of Rudolf Nureyev's death comes this special programme about the last ten years of his life. It was the period of Nureyev's artistic directorship of the Paris Opera Ballet and, coincidentally, the time in which he faced up to contracting Aids. He continued to dance, to choreograph and he even toured the US in a musical.
This film is about a man who literally tried to cheat death by dancing.
(A new series of Omnibus begins in March.)