Cricket: The John Player League: Essex v Lancashire
The clash of the experts - Lancashire who won the League title last year and Essex who came third. Their captains, Jackie Bond and Brian Taylor, are both shrewd tacticians who know how to use to the full the talents of such players as Farokh Engineer, Clive Lloyd, Keith Boyce, and Keith Fletcher.
During today's tea interval at approximately 4.0 pm: The finish of the 1970 Le Mans 24-Hour Race.
David Vine introduces the programme which includes news of all today's other cricket fixtures: Kent v Northamptonshire, Derbyshire v Hampshire, Leicestershire v Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire v Middlesex, Surrey v Somerset, Sussex v Warwickshire
6.30 Interval