This week on “Sweetness and Light,” with Easter hopping up on us, we’ll do our best keep it fluffy, with selections for Peter Rabbit and friends from “Tales of Beatrix Potter.” This 1971 ballet film features dances choreographed by Frederick Ashton and performed by members of the Royal Ballet.

The director, Reginald Mills, worked as an editor on Powell-Pressburger classics such as “The Red Shoes” – for which he was nominated for an Academy Award – and “The Tales of Hoffman,” also incorporating dance. John Lanchbery arranged the music from Victorian era carrot sticks by Michael Balfe and Sir Arthur Sullivan.

Then, in the warm glow of a sugar-high, we’ll luxuriate in the mingled sense of well-being and accomplishment that comes from having polished off all the chocolate, with the “Cottontail Rag” by Joseph Lamb.

No need to adjust your rabbit ears. We’ll be keeping all our jelly beans in one basket on “Sweetness and Light,” an hour of leporine light music for Easter, this Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PDT, exclusively on KWAX, the radio station of the University of Oregon!

Stream it wherever you are at the link:

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

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