Monty Python star and former 'missionary' Michael Palin introduces two films that speculate on the hereafter.

Heaven
Diane Keaton, star of Annie Hall and currently in Baby Boom, goes behind the camera in this provocative and hilarious look at the beyond. Interrupted with a myriad of crazy movie clips, she asks an assortment of real people such questions as 'Are you afraid to die?', 'What is God like?' and 'Is there sex in heaven?'
Following its acclaim at the Cannes and London Film Festivals, a chance to see this unique film for the first time on British television.

and at 11.20
A Matter of Life and Death
Starring David Niven, Roger Livesey, Kim Hunter
Squadron Leader Peter Carter should have been killed when he baled out over the Channel in 1945. But still alive after a miraculous escape, he falls in love with an American girl and resists the summons of a hallucinatory 'messenger' to take his rightful place in the next world...
This stunning fantasy, set partly on a Technicolor earth and partly in a black-and-white heaven, was written, produced and directed by one of the most successful partnerships in British film history - that of Michael Powell and the late Emeric Pressburger.
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