The director of Cold Mountain, released on Boxing Day, and The English Patient in conversation.
Starting a night of rare treats from the comedy vaults on BBC4, Time Shift tells how a hunt for missing programmes turned up priceless episodes of Dad's Army and other classic comedy material thought to be lost for ever. Interviewees include John Cleese and Terry Jones.
A chance to see a clutch of archive gems which have recently been saved from televisual obscurity. The line-up includes the seminal comedy show At Last - the Show at 8.10, Johnny Speight 's Till Death Us Do Part at 8.35, Spike Milligan Presents.... at
9.05 and Terry-Thomas in The Old Campaigner at 9.35.
Complementing tonight's Arena profile on BBC2, the talk-show supremo meets Sir Alec Guinness.
Waldemar Januszczak traces the development of the French
Impressionist.
The great 17th-century scientist described as "Britain's Leonardo".
