A series of matches played under knock-out rules
featuring
The International Cavaliers XI
Captain, Ted Dexter (Sussex and England)
who today play for a purse of 100 guineas
against
A West Indies XI
Captain, Garfield Sobers (Notts and West Indies)
at the Rectory Ground, Blackheath.

Among those playing in today's match: Rohan Kanhai (Warwicks and West Indies), Clive Lloyd (Guyana and West Indies), Lance Gibbs (Warwicks and West Indies), Denis Compton (Middlesex and England).
Introduced by Frank Bough.
(Organised by the International Cavaliers Cricket Club in association with Rothmans of Pall Mall in aid of the Lady Worrell Fund)

The scene of this afternoon's game is one of the oldest grounds in the country. Both rugby and cricket have been played on Rectory Ground, Blackheath, since 1875, although before that both sports were played on the Heath itself. Kent County Cricket Club play two matches a year on the ground -one of them being the fixture against Surrey - and their captain, Colin Cowdrey, is an honorary member of the rugby club.
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A further visit to Blackheath.
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for the deaf and hard of hearing
A look at the news of the week with film from all over the world and a commentary that can be seen as well as heard
followed by The Weather
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Dusty Springfield returns to the scene of her recent cabaret triumph.
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A series of films from all over the world about our astonishing planet and the people who live on it.

The prize-winning film (Trento International Film Festival 1967, Melbourne Film Festival 1968, International Addis Ababa Film Festival 1968) of one man's love for the desert and its people.

In 1946 the explorer Wilfred Thesiger crossed the desert known as 'The Empty Quarter' - an incredible journey through lands where no European had travelled before.

"A beautiful film" (Maurice Wiggin, Sunday Times)
"A truly marvellous colour film" (Stanley Reynolds, The Guardian)
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A classic of desert exploration at 8.15
"A Cloud gathers, the rain falls, men live; the cloud disperses without rain, and men and animals die. In the deserts of southern Arabia there is no rhythm of the seasons, no rise and fall of sap, but empty wastes where only the changing temperature marks the passage of the years."

So begins Arabian Sands, one of the classics of desert literature. The author is Wilfred Thesiger, who follows in that peculiarly British tradition of desert explorers established by Burton, Doughty, Lawrence, Bertram Thomas, and St. John Philby.
For five years Thesiger shared the life of the Bedu in southern Arabia, living and travelling in the most desolate and arid deserts in the world-the Rub al Khali, or "The Empty Quarter."

Tonight's award-winning World About Us film is a reconstruction of Thesiger's wanderings.

The film sets out to capture the spirit of the desert and its people. But many lovers of desolate places are saddened that the deserts of Arabia are changing fast. Today the silence of the sands is broken by the drilling rig, and the Bedu has lost his livelihood, for no one needs his camels.

As Thesiger himself says: "Other people will go to Arabia, but they will move about in cars and keep in touch with the outside world by wireless. They will bring back, I am sure, results that are far more interesting than mine, but they will, I believe, never know the spirit of the land or the greatness of its people."

Sviatoslav Richter the great Soviet pianist plays Benjamin Britten's Piano Concerto with the composer conducting.
Also Mozart's Piano Concerto in B flat major (K.450)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Tom Rowlette
Conductor, James Loughran
(Recorded in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh on September 5)
Introduced by Tom Fleming.

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"...the best comedy show of this or any other year... electronic insanity, lightning-paced... imaginative, entertaining, one long laugh from start to finish"

So said the American critics of this new series of programmes of lunacy and laughter starring, as your hosts, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin featuring a regular company of crazy characters and a bewildering array of guests.
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invites Nemone Lethbridge, John Bowen, Peter Jay, John Calder to discuss with Michael Dean talking points of the week.
If you have any topics you would like discussed in next week's programme please write to: Late Night Line-Up (Sunday), [address removed]
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