This Second World War drama begins a double bill of films in the season celebrating the work of French director Jean Renoir.
Starring Charles Laughton Maureen O'Hara

A mild-mannered schoolteacher finally makes a stand after the outbreak of war and the German occupation of France.
With George Sanders and Walter Slezak.
(1943) B/W
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Drama starring Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan

A naval lieutenant meets a blind artist's beautiful wife, and suspects the painter is faking his blindness.
With Charles Bickford and Nan Leslie.
(1947) (B/W)
(Une Partie de Campagne is tomorrow at 1.25am)
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Classic comedy based on the play by Oscar Wilde, showing to complement BBC2's Wilde Night which begins at 8.20pm.
Starring Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Edith Evans

Two wealthy bachelors pretend to be called "Ernest" as they court Gwendolen and Cecily. But there's confusion when both girls fall for "Ernest"'s charms.
(1952)
(Subtitled)
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Continuing the series celebrating the centenary of the cinema, Diane Abbott, MP, chooses a scene from Gone with the Wind. The whole film can be seen on Monday at 8.30pm.

Oscar-winning biblical epic starring Charlton Heston
The adopted Hebrew Moses is the favourite and apparent heir of the Egyptian Pharaoh. But Moses' love for Princess Nefretiti angers the Pharaoh's son and Moses is banished to the desert.
Director Cecil B DeMille 1956) * FILM REVIEWS pages 49-60

A holiday edition of the news quiz with teams of former presenters from two vintage programmes - Michael Barratt and Bob Wellings of Nationwide and Raymond Baxter and Maggie Philbin of Tomorrow's World. With Martyn Lewis.

Richard Fleischer chooses a clip from The Best Years of Our Lives and Michael Winner selects the battle scene from Henry V.
Next Close-Up: Monday, 7.55pm
Stereo

Highlights from today's play in the World Championship at Sheffield. Presented by David Vine.

The best of Thursday's Top of the Pops and, from 1974, Mud, Bill Haley , Slade, and a number one from Terry Jacks with Seasons in the Sun. Plus a selection of the best videos so far from 1995. Last in the current series.
(Stereo)

Second of four programmes for the Easter weekend in which jazz virtuoso Wynton Marsalis conducts musical masterclasses for young people in a barn at Tanglewood, Massachusetts, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Marsalis explores rhythm, the basic pulse that drives all music, comparing Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite with the jazz arrangement of the work by Duke Ellington. Using everyday objects and images to convey his points, he also contrasts the roles of percussion in classical and jazz music. Featuring Marsalis's own 17-piece jazz band, BSO conductor Seiji Ozawa and the Tanglewood Orchestra.

(From Sousa to Satchmo: tomorrow at 7.30 pm)

Art expert Sister Wendy Beckett joins George Pattison, Dean of King's College, Cambridge, to examine the Holy Week story as it is depicted in the stained-glass windows of King's College Chapel. Music sung by the college's famous choir, conducted by Stephen Cleobury, includes part of Victoria's Tenebrae Responsaries, Blow's Salvator Mundi and Lotti's Crucifixus.
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BBC Book: Pains of Glass, with commentary by Sister Wendy Beckett and the Reverend Dr George Pattison, is available price £4.99 from booksellers.

Pains of Glass - with Sister Wendy 7.20pm BBC2
The "pains" are the events of the Passion as recorded in the stained-glass windows of King's College Chapel in Cambridge. Sister Wendy Beckett, nun and art lover, records her feelings as she sees these magnificent 16th-century works for the first time and discusses their inspiration with the Dean of King's College, George Pattison.
"It's not enough to have an artist who can draw and who can colour," says Sister Wendy. "You have got to have an artist who can understand, and that's what we've got here: the theology of the Passion made radiant to us in the windows."

A night of documentaries and films marking the 100th anniversary of the trial which sentenced Oscar Wilde to two years' hard labour for offences against the law on homosexuality.

8.20 Open Space Special: A Fear to Appear Queer, Oscar Dear
Author and academic Alan Sinfield takes a witty and provocative look at Wilde's influence on the 20th century, and argues that the legacy of Wilde is not always helpful to homosexuals. Sinfield recalls that when he was at school, boys who showed interest in other boys were labelled "Oscars". He contends that despite Wilde's trial and what some would call his martyrdom, the lessons learnt have not necessarily made life any easier for gay people. Yet Julian Clary suggests that Wilde opened doors for camp comics such as himself: "He used to say nothing is in bad taste as long as it's funny - which is something I've often quoted when I'm asked about my boundaries of good and bad taste." Other contributors include drag artist Dave Lynn and Chris Smith, MP.

Actor, director and writer Simon Callow explains his obsession since childhood with Wilde and his writing. He celebrates the playwright's wit and imagination and suggests why Wilde remains an important artist

A candid portrait of Oscar Wilde and his remarkable family, including revelations by his grandson Merlin Holland and Lady Alice Douglas, a descendant of Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas.

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Drama starring Peter Finch
with James Mason, Yvonne Mitchell, Nigel Patrick, John Fraser

Oscar Wilde was at the height of his fame as a wit and socialite when he sued the Marquis of Queensberry for libel. He lost, and subsequently had to face criminal charges of indecency.
(1960)
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Chiller based on the novel by Oscar Wilde , starring
Hurd Hatfield
George Sanders
While Victorian high society ebbs and flows around him, Dorian Gray amazingly retains his youth. But under this civilised veneer lurks a depraved spirit, proving a deadly menace even to those he loves most.
Director Albert Lewin (1945)
B/WandColour * FILM REVIEWS pages 49-60