Twelve choirs, all members of the North Wales Association of Male Choirs, join together in an anthology of words and music for Easter from Bangor Cathedral, Gwynedd. with Donald Houston and Beverley Humphreys conductor D. ROLAND MORRIS organist ANDREW GOODWIN
Sound FRANK PRENDERGAST Lighting LAURIE OWEN
Producer GERAINT STANLEY JONES BBC Cymru/Wales
Cardiff v The Barbarians and The Melrose Sevens
The Barbarians, as the most famous rugby club in the world, field a side liberally sprinkled with international players for the highlight of their Easter tour of Wales. Cardiff have won this fixture narrowly on the last three occasions and have no need to fear the abilities of their illustrious opponents.
Rugby's oldest seven-a-side tournament is held on the second Saturday in April at the home of the Melrose club, the picturesque - Greenyards '. Scotland's principal rugby clubs, together with guest sides, Loughborough Colleges and London Scottish, battle it out this year for a prized Melrose medal.
Commentator at Cardiff Arms Park
NIGEL STARMER-SMITH
Commentator at the Greenyards BILL MCLAREN
Director at Cardiff ONLLWYN BRACE Series producer BILL TAYLOR
12: The End of the Old the laslt of the ' BC series looks at the dramatic events which led up to the final destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD,
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by FEODOR DOSTOEVSKY starring John Gielgud with Michael Feast
Sir John Gielgud plays the Grand Inquisitor who, after a lifetime of authority and power, has become aware of an enemy, a stranger moving among the crowds performing miracles.
English version
JEREMY BROOKS , KITTY HUNTER BLAIR Lighting JOHN FANE
Designer GEORGE WISNER Producer RICHARD ARGENT A BBC-OU production
A digest of the week's news plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear, with Kenneth Kendall
Editor BILL NORTHWOOB
Namib ... Strange Creatures of the Skeleton Coast
By day lizards dance, spiders turn cartwheels, beetles stand on their heads to drink. At night, to a chorus of barking geckos, legless lizards and golden moles go hunting.
Though politicians may argue about who owns South Western Africa, few men venture into the harsh yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of the Namib Desert. It is one of the bleakest spots on earth, where drifting dunes and gravel plains stretch along the notorious Skeleton Coast. The shifting sands are the home of one of the world's strangest communities of animals.
Narrator MICHAEL MCCALLION
Surprising even by the standards of wildlife programmes (DAILY MAIL) Must be a classic of its kind
(SUNDAY TIMES)
Directed/photographed by DAVID HUGHES Presented by NED KELLY
Series editors MICHAEL ANDREWS and ANTHONY ISAACS
BBC Bristol
by George Moore
The BBC2 Serial
Dramatised in four parts by Douglas Livingstone
When Esther Waters enters service as kitchen maid at the Woodview racing stable, she is befriended by two people: the owner's wife Mrs Barfield, who, like Esther, is a devout member of the Plymouth Brethren, and William Latch, whose regard for Esther is not quite so religious.
Cast in order of appearance [see below]
Weather
Vive Moi
A Portrait of Sean O'Faolain
'I am now 76 years old and I began writing when I was 22 so that's about 54 years -I guess that I have left about ten stories that will last. I'm satisfied'
(SEAN O'FAOLAIN )
Sean O'Faolain is one of the most distinguished of Irish short story writers. He has also written novels, historical works and an autobiography Vive Moi. In tonight's programme he talks to Melvyn Bragg about his life as a revolutionary, academic and writer; to illustrate his work there are three dramatisations of his stories by HUGH LEONARD.
Teresa
The Fur Coat
Two of a Kind
Designer GEOFFREY PATTERSON
Executive producer BILL MORTON
Producers BEN REA, NIGEL WILLIAMS
starring
Alain Delon , Jeanne Moreau with Michel Lonsdale , Juliet Berto
A Sunday-night season of feature films screened for the first time on British television - many of them new to this country - starts with Joseph Losey 's latest film which opens at a West End cinema tomorrow.
Mr Klein won Losey the French Cinema Industry's award for best director, as well as best film of 1976. Set in Paris in 1942, it concerns a French antique dealer who is making a fortune buying works of art from Jews forced to flee the country. One day, he is mystified to receive a Jewish newspaper: gradually, he realises that someone else is using his identity. Outraged, he sets out to uncover the ' other' Mr Klein.
Written by FRANCO SOLINAS
Director JOSEPH LOSEY. Films: page 9