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Introduced by Frank Bough

Lancashire are proving to be the side to beat. Currently leading the table they have lost only once and then to Essex, when Keith Boyce hit the Lancashire bowlers for fifty in twenty-three minutes to set the pace in the BBC-2's Fastest Fifty Award.
Commentary team at Grace Road, Leicester: John Arlott, Richie Benaud, Jim Laker
Today's other fixtures: Essex v. Surrey, Glamorgan v. Derbyshire, Gloucestershire v. Worcestershire, Middlesex v. Hampshire, Somerset v. Yorkshire
(Colour)
(to 18.30)

Contributors

Presenter:
Frank Bough
Commentator:
John Arlott
Commentator:
Richie Benaud
Commentator:
Jim Laker
Television presentation:
Bill Taylor
Television presentation:
Roy Norton
Series producer:
Alan Mouncer

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
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Kenneth Kendall
Producer:
Bill Northwood

A series of films from all over the world about our astonishing planet and the people who live on it

War is a ritual thread woven into the pattern of life of the mountain people, the Dani. Although few lives are lost, great displays of measured violence dominate their existence and shape a culture that in many ways resembles that of our own distant stone-age ancestors.
An edited version of the film Dead Birds made by Robert Gardner of the Harvard Peabody Expedition to New Guinea
From the South and West
(Colour)

Contributors

Edited version of the film "Dead Birds" made by:
Robert Gardner

The BBC film of last summer's Varna International Ballet Competition-the Olympics of the Dance - held every alternate year at this Bulgarian Black Sea resort.

A BBC production made in co-operation with Bulgarian Television
(Colour)

Contributors

Reporter/Director:
Colin Nears
Director/Producer:
Margaret Dale

by William Douglas Home
with Anthony Nicholls as The Bishop
and Celia Bannerman as The Actress

The Actress is about to take an overdose of tablets when she is disturbed by someone at the front door. It is the Bishop, father of her former fiance who today is marrying someone else...
(Colour)

Contributors

Writer:
William Douglas Home
Music:
Dudley Simpson
Script Editor:
Derek Hoddinott
Designer:
John Wood
Producer:
Innes Lloyd
Director:
Geoffrey Nethercott
The Bishop:
Anthony Nicholls
The Actress:
Celia Bannerman

Written by Eddie Braben.
Starring Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.
Tonight's special guests: Trio Athenee, Malcolm Roberts, Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
and featuring Ann Hamilton
with Janet Webb, Constance Carling, Gilly Fraser

(Colour)

Contributors

Writer:
Eddie Braben
Writer:
Mike Craig
Writer:
Lawrie Kinsley
Orchestra Director:
Peter Knight
Designer:
Tony Abbott
Producer:
John Ammonds
Comedian:
Eric Morecambe
Comedian:
Ernie Wise
Musicians:
Trio Athenee
Singer:
Malcolm Roberts
Musicians:
Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
[Actress]:
Ann Hamilton
[Actress]:
Janet Webb
[Actress]:
Constance Carling
[Actress]:
Gilly Fraser

BBC Two England

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BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

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