Gloucester finished third in last year's County Championship but were headed by Surrey in the League. So today's match, played in the picturesque Cotswold village of Moreton-in-Marsh, should be a close-fought contest.
During the tea interval at 4.10*: Profile of a Cricketer: Tony Lewis (Glamorgan and England) by John Arlott
Frank Bough introduces today's programme which includes news of today's other fixtures: Essex v Kent, Glamorgan v Hampshire, Lancashire v Nottinghamshire, Middlesex v Sussex, Northamptonshire v Leicestershire, Warwickshire v Derbyshire, Worcestershire v Yorkshire
Commentators at Moreton-in-Marsh, John Arlott and Jim Laker