BBC Four HD Wednesday

Coverage of the evening session on day five from York Barbican, featuring two last-16 matches, played over the best of 11 frames

Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's tale of a rich man who auctions his wife and child while drunk, but whose past comes back to haunt him in later life. Alan Bates stars

Eminent, rich, respected and feared, Michael Henchard is also ashamed of his past, so he decides to remarry Susan. First broadcast 29 January 1978

Jealousy poisons Henchard against his manager, Donald Farfrae. The mayor's troubles are only just beginning. Starring Alan Bates. First broadcast 5 February 1978

Rejected by her father, Elizabeth-Jane goes to work for Lucetta, who now pursues Farfrae. Meanwhile Henchard plots the ruin of his former manager

A look back at clips of the comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and their appearances on some of the BBC's best-loved talk shows

Writer and broadcaster Stephen Smith explores the flamboyant court of French monarch Louis XIV at the Palace of Versailles