Introduced by Frank Bough

The 1968 season saw a resurgence of cricketing success for Nottinghamshire: under the captaincy of the finest all-round cricketer in the world, Gary Sobers, they became one of the most effective sides in the Championship.
Hampshire, led for the fourth successive season by another West Indian, Roy Marshall, are a side capable of producing first-rate entertainment especially if the dynamic South African batsman Barry Richards is in form.
The commentary team at Trent Bridge, Nottingham: John Arlott, Richie Benaud, Jim Laker
Today's other fixtures: Glamorgan v. Somerset, Gloucestershire v. Essex, Lancashire v. Derbyshire, Surrey v. Kent, Warwickshire v. Northamptonshire,
Worcestershire v. Middlesex, Yorkshire v. Sussex

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The best of the week's newsfilm from all over the world, together with other subjects of interest. For the deaf and hard of hearing a commentary appears visually
followed by The Weather

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Starring The George Mitchell Singers
featuring John Boulter, Dai Francis, Tony Mercer
with The Television Toppers
and Lyn and Graham McCarthy, Margaret Savage, Delia Wicks, Penny Jewkes, Pauline Whitaker, Les Rawlings
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Presenting a selection of outstanding feature-length travel and adventure films reflecting man's curiosity in the world around him

The dramatic story of the successful Everest Expedition led by Sir John Hunt which reached the summit on May 29, 1953.
Commentary written by Louis MacNeice and spoken by Meredith Edwards
Produced with the co-operation of the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club

Everest has claimed many victims and caused many disappointments. Even the camera can only indicate the full magnitude of the expedition's achievement.
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The monthly review of what is happening in Music Now
The last programme of the current series
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Sir Michael Tippett
co-director of the Bath Festival, discusses its aims and conducts the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra in his new work Interlude II
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Osian Ellis
plays part of a new Suite for harp by Benjamin Britten, which has its premiere at next month's Aldeburgh Festival
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Rosemary Brown
the London housewife talks to Richard Rodney Bennett about the music she claims has been dictated to her by great composers of the past, and Stephen Bishop plays one of these pieces, a Moment Musical by Schubert
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Harrison Birtwistle
introduces his new work Down by the Greenwood Side, commissioned for the Brighton Festival, and David Atherton conducts an excerpt from it, with Jenny Hill and the Music Theatre Ensemble
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A 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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followed by Sunday Cricket Scoreboard
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A selection of some of the interesting and amusing moments from programmes seen on BBC-2 during May
Introduced by Michael Dean
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