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 Eric Idle, Henry Woolf and from the studio audience.
Among the main events are:
London's Longest Picture
Sidney Nolan, the Australian painter, sees his 150-ft-long picture hung for the very first time in the Full House studio.
(In Omnibus tomorrow at 10.20 pm - not Northern Ireland transmitters - Sidney Nolan revisits Australia)
The London Saxophone Quartet
A group of musicians who are making a name for themselves with a repertoire and style that is unfamiliar in this country. They will play a light and witty quartet by Jean Francaix (b 1912)
What Shall We Do Next?
A diversion by John Bowen
with Michael Craig, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Brian Deacon, Cherith Mellor
'What shall we do next?' 'What do you want to do?' 'I don't know, what do you want to do?' 'I don't mind really. Anything. It doesn't matter to me.'
10.0 Roxy Music
Reviving the music of the 1950s and contributing some of their own - vocal and electronic.
The Mona Lisa in 3-D
The Dutch artist, Saskia de Boer, makes figures of famous people from foam rubber. There are Marilyn Monroes, Marlene Dietrichs, Botticelli Primaveras and Mona Lisas galore. She is one of the artists described in Udo Kultermann's book "New Realism", which has just been published.
Rather than paint a subject directly, the New Realist works from a photograph, which is already a flat, frozen form, free of emotional complications. Photography, often considered the enemy of painting, here becomes its servant.
10.45 Dan Jacobson
The South African writer and critic, winner of the Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award: tonight he reads, and talks about, a story of his that deals with his childhood in South Africa.
Plus sketches by Eric Idle, cartoon films... and whatever or whoever else turns up.
(Colour)