with Percy Thrower from Clacks Farm
The lengthening days and the promise of spring sunshine mean good growing conditions for plants and pests alike. PERCY THROWER wages war on the foes of fruit trees and deals with other Easter tasks in the fruit garden and greenhouse.
Producer BARRIE EDGAR (Birmingham)

Friends of the Firth

An Easter entertainment for the family starring Brian Cant with Toni Arthur , Julie Stevens
David Wood , Jonathan Cohen Spike Heatley , Alan Rushton
Musical director JONATHAN COHEN
Designers TOM YARDLEY-JONES .NIUELCURZON Director NIGEL MAY Producer ANN REAY
The Bold Bad Bus. stories In verse from Play Away £1.60, from bookshops

starring Janette Scott , Vernon Gray Kay Walsh , Jack Warner
Janette Grant , a lonely schoolgirl, decides to elope with the son of a local garage owner.
Producer and director MARIO ZAMPI This Week's Films: page 19

All Star Swing Festival brings together all-time greats of the jazz age in one unique television programme

Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Joe Williams, Bobby Hackett, Doc Severinsen, Max Kaminsky, Dizzie Gillespie and featuring the original Benny Goodman Quartet

Recorded in 1972 at the New York Lincoln Center Philharmonic Hall

Introduced by Philip Jenkinson
A report from Pinewood Studios on the making of Quilp, a musical version of Charles Dickens 's The Old Curiosity Shop: with comments from ANTHONY NEWLEY , DAVID HEMMINGS and JILL BENNETT
Producer BARRY BROWN

Cardiff v The Barbarians
Commentator NIGEL STARMER-SMITH
Television presentation ONLLWYN BRACE Series producer BILL TAYLOR

Weather

In Concert
BRUCE TURNER (alto-clarinet)
KATHY STOBART (tenor/baritone) MICK PYNE (piano) DAVE GREEN (bass)
TONY MANN (drums)
Sound LARRY GOODSON
Lighting BRIAN CLEMETT Designer PETÐR KINDRED
Producer JOHNNIE STEWARY

BBC2 Snooker Championship
The first semi-final for the 1975 Pot Black Trophy. Graham Miles defending Pot Black Champion v Ray Reardon the 1974 World Champion Introduced by ALAN WEEKS Referee SYDNEY LEE
Commentator TED LOWE
Director JIM DUMIGHAN
Producer REG PERRIN (Birmingham)
Book (same title), 65p, from bookshops

from the novel by SYBILLE BEDFORD dramatised in five parts by ROBERT MULLER starring Claire Bloom
Hugh Griffith , Irene Handl
Richard Hurndall , Jeremy Brett Robin Bailey , Angela Pleasence Geoffrey Whitehead
' Everything comes to us from the past and though not all one inherits is pleasing, one can'repudiate the legacy.' And what an extraordinary legacy was bequeathed to Francesca.
Part 1
Script editor LENNOX PHILLIPS
Costume designer BARBARA KRONIG Make-up artist MAUREEN WINSLADE Designer CHRIS PEMSEL Producer RON CRADDOCK Director DEREK MARTINUS

(A Masked Ball)
Verdi's opera in three acts conducted by Claudio Abbado Produced by OTTO SCHENK Designed by JURUEN ROSE
A new production recorded recently at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Beneath the dignified surface of the court of King Gustavus III of Sweden there's a seething world of private passion and political intrigue. The King's involvement with his secretary's wife is to seal his fate at the masked ball.
In order of appearance: Conspirators:
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master ROBIN STAPLETON The children are from Edith Cavell School trained by JEAN POVEY ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE leader MEYER STOLOW
Libretto by ANTONIO SOMMA sung in Italian
Robin Ray introduces the opera English subtitles GILLIAN WIDDICOMBE
Presented for television by JOHN VERNON The action takes place in Stockholm in 1792. Act 1: Scene 1: An audience chamber in the royal palace. Scene 2: Ulrica's dwelling
Act 2: A gallows-field beyond the city at midnight
Two-minute interval
10.35* Act 3: Scene 1: Renato's study later that morning. Scene 2: An antechamber at the Royal Opera House. Scene 3: The Masked Ball

Weather

starring
Arthur Kennedy , Betta St John with Eugene Iglesias , Charlita
After robbing a freight car, Santiago, an engaging Mexican bandit, rides into the small farm owned by Manuel and his wife Maria.
Director EDWARD G. ULMER
This Week's Films: page 19