The White Crow

( 2018) BBC2, 9.30pm

With a script by David Hare and direction from Ralph Fiennes, this biopic was always going to be classy. Fiennes also stars as ballet teacher Alexander Pushkin, but it’s dancer Oleg Ivenko (above) who takes the lead role of Rudolf Nureyev in a film charting the events leading up to his defection. ★★★