A live entertainment for Saturday

Introduced by Joe Melia with a little help from John Bird and Michael Palin

Among the main events:

Osibisa
Their music gave rise to a new expression in pop - Afro-rock. Some of the group are from the West Indies, some from Africa. They play electric guitars, reeds, brass and a remarkable assortment of drums and percussion instruments.

'The Filleting Machine'
A play by Tom Hadaway
'Wi' no education yor nee good ti anybody but yorsel'. Which leaves ye wi nee choice, but ti get on. See that? That's all ye need. A good filleting knife. That's the instrument. Carve yorsel' a career.'

The British Soccer Dance
To lure viewers away from Match of the Day, Full House has invited choreographer Gillian Lynne to stage her own 'match in movement' in the studio, to a musical score by Dudley Moore.
Complete with referee, trainer and teams, this 'Soccer Ballet' pays tribute to the British sporting institution and provides a role as well for Joe Melia.

10.50 The House that Jack Built
And this is the mess at the end of it all
This is the mess in which they all fall,
Poor people all confused and forlorn
Because of the House that Jack Built
In response to an appeal by the St Albans Shelter Group, some 20 modern poets have contributed to an anthology, edited by Brian Patten and Pat Krett, which draws attention to the plight of the homeless.
The collection will be published on 26 March. Tonight Full House presents a sequence of poetry on this theme, read by Brian Patten, Alan Brownjohn, Glenda Jackson, and others; music, Andy Roberts.

Olivier Messiaen
Reckoned to be the greatest French composer since Ravel, his music combines elements of religion, birdsong, sensuality, rag-time and orientalism in a mixture that commands an almost fanatical devotion from his followers.
Tonight he and his wife, the pianist Yvonne Loriod, play a movement from his two-piano work Visions de VAmen