Introduced by Frank Bough

Lancashire are making a determined bid for the League leadership. Their captain, John Bond, is fortunate to be able to call on the wisdom and experience of senior professional Ken Higgs, and in the Indian Test player Farokh Engineer he has a world-class wicket-keeper and entertaining batsman.
Glamorgan, too, are making a strong challenge in the League and today's match is a vital one to the hopes of both sides.
Commentary team at Trafalgar Road, Southport John Arlott, Richie Benaud, Jim Laker
Today's other fixtures: Gloucestershire v. Yorkshire, Kent v. Middlesex, Somerset v. Nottinghamshire, Surrey v. Leicestershire, Sussex v. Northamptonshire, Worcestershire v. Hampshire

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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.
and The Weather
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A series of films from all over the world about our astonishing planet and the creatures that live on it

As they leave South Africa, Cousteau and the crew of the research vessel Calypso take aboard two young Cape Fur Seals. Given the names Pepito and Cristobal, the seals gradually form attachments to members of the team and even act as messengers for the divers. Then one day, off South America, Cristobal swims away...
Produced by Les Requins Associes and Metromedia Producers Corporation
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A parable for church performance by William Plomer
Set to music by Benjamin Britten in the English Opera Group production staged by Colin Graham
with members of the English Chamber Orchestra
Directed by Benjamin Britten
Assisted by Viola Tunnard
Recorded in Orford Parish Church

The stimulus to compose the first parable in the trilogy of which this forms the second part came after a visit to Tokyo in 1956 when Britten saw the Japanese Noh theatre. Following this he invited the distinguished poet William Plomer to provide the text and develop certain principles from classical Noh drama; an all-male cast, a handful of instrumentalists (without conductor) to be included in the drama, and a stylistic form of presentation. Into this Britten incorporated something of the tradition of English medieval religious miracle plays and produced in The Burning Fiery Furnace one of his most dramatic and hauntingly beautiful works.
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by Malcolm Muggeridge
How is Gandhi regarded in India today in his centenary year?
How far has his teaching influenced the policies and practice of independent India?
To explore such questions as these Malcolm Muggeridge recently visited some of the places in India closely associated with Gandhi. He talked with students and politicians, as well as with former associates of Gandhi such as his grand-daughter Mrs. Sumitra Kulkarni and the venerable Chakravarti Rajagopalachari. The quest ends at Cape Comorin, where Gandhi's ashes were thrown into the sea.

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A programme recorded recently at the famous Cirkus Studio in Stockholm, Sweden.

The Young Generation:
Heather Beckers, Marie Betts, Ann Chapman, Jackie Dalton, Denise Fone, Jane Herbert, Lynoa Herbert, Carolyn Heywood, Linda Jolliff, Lesley Judd, Kay Korda,Linda Lawrence, Sandy Penson, Terry Robinson, Wei Wei Wong, Bobby Bannerman, Chris Cooper, Roger Finch, Danny Grover, Harry Higham, Roger Howlett, Erik-Jack, Nigel Lythgoe, Scott Mackee, Denis Morrissey, Brian Rogers, Barrie Stevens, Ricky Stratful, Donald Torr, Trevor Willis
with Svend Asmussen, Pierre Brahma, Siw Malmkvist.

(A joint BBC-tv-SR production)
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Three plays by Arden Winch
Starring Charles Gray as Inspector Waugh
[with] Lyndon Brook as Adrian Phillips, Robin Chadwick as Constable White

In which Inspector Waugh meets Adrian Phillips. Why is he so nervous? Has he anything to do with the dead girl downstairs or is he trying to hide something else-something even more important to him?

"It was a relief to turn to BBC-2 where their admirable actor Charles Gray was discovered in the role of a massively garrulous police inspector concealing a Sherlock Holmes technique under a tweedy, squire-like exterior" (The Sun)
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Late Night Line-Up's weekly look at the cinema with stars - previews - and a dig into the past.
Introduced by Tony Bilbow with Philip Jenkinson.
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