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Full House

on BBC Two England

A live entertainment for Saturday, presenting a mixture of music, plays, poetry, prose, comedy, films, the visual arts - and a few surprises.
Introduced by Joe Melia with a little help from John Bird
Among the main events:

Teresa Berganza
Mezzo-soprano star of Covent Garden, the 'Met,' La Scala, turns tonight to the music of her native Spain. With Felix Lavilla, her husband, at the piano, she sings songs by Granados, Mompou and Manuel de Falla.

Archigram
Cheer up with Archigram, a travelling exhibition which starts off this month from the Institute of Contemporary Arts. In the studio, models, designs and projects including Throwaway buildings, the Living Pod and the Instant City. Archigram are an experimental group of English architects who won the 1970 competition for a new entertainments complex in Monte Carlo. Peter Cook, one of the co-founders of the group in 1961, talks about some of their ideas and about his new job as director of the ICA.

(More about Archigram in Scan: Thursday at 8.45 pm, Radio 4)

The London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble
play music by John McCabe and Josquin des Pres.

9.45 George Reborn
by David Cregan

'I think, perhaps my parents dominated me too much when I was a child. I'll teach them. I shall go mad.'

Patricia Beer was born and brought up in Devon. Tonight she reads and talks about her poetry which often deals with subjects taken from her own domestic life in the West Country.

10.40 The Red Buddha Theatre
present "The Man from the East"
Masks and mime, the traditional arts of Japan, and modern rock music combine in a theatre spectacle devised by the young Japanese percussion player Stomu Yamash'ta.

(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Joe Melia
Performer:
Joe Bird
Director:
Vernon Lawrence
Producer:
Naomi Capon
Producer:
Tony Cash
Producer:
Michael MacIntyre
Assistant Editor:
Tony Staveacre
Editor:
Bill Morton
Mezzo-Soprano:
Teresa Berganza
Pianist:
Felix Lavilla
Interviewee (Archigram):
Peter Cook
Musicians:
London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble
Writer (George Reborn):
David Cregan
George:
Ronald Pickup
Anna:
Susan Jameson
Charlie:
Tenniel Evans
Amy:
Stephanie Turner
Alice:
Paula Wilcox
Erm:
Sharon Duce
Sydney:
Tim Wylton
Poet/Interviewee:
Patricia Beer
Percussionist:
Stomu Yamash'ta

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