Introduced by Frank Bough

Essex, second in the League Table to Lancashire, need every point they can muster if they are going to catch the leaders.
Their opponents today, Warwickshire, hope to be at full strength after a spate of injury problems, and to include such star players as Kanhai, Ibadulla, and Brown.
Commentary team at Edgbaston: John Arlott, Neil Durden-Smith, Jim Laker

Today's other fixtures: Derbyshire v. Somerset, Lancashire v. Hampshire, Middlesex v. Surrey, Northamptonshire v. Kent, Worcestershire v. Glamorgan, Yorkshire v. Leicestershire

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(to 18.30)

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

Film, shown for the first time in colour, of the uproarious balloon race organised in 1965 by the BBC's Travel and Exploration Unit in which ten passenger-carrying balloons took to the air from a field near the Oxfordshire village of Stanton Harcourt and landed in various parts of the Cotswolds.

"(Television's) craziest piece of reportage... a wonderful spectacular feature bringing something excitingly different to the home screen... the compilation of the story, from a mass of mad or funny incidents as the nine competitors tried to follow a fox balloon was a masterpiece" (Daily Telegraph)
Written and produced by Brian Branston
(First shown on BBC-1)
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Act 1 of Mozart's opera from this year's Aix-en-Provence Festival
Orchestre de Paris
Conducted by Georges Semkow
Introduced by Antony Hopkins
Sung in Italian with English sub-titles by Julian Budden
Recording made available by courtesy of the French Television Service
Act 2: next Sunday
See page 31
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For the Deaf
Synopses are now available for these forthcoming plays on BBC-1: for adults, The Expert (August 29); Z Cars (August 25 and 26; September 1 and 2; 8 and 9); Counterstrike (September 9); and for children, Dombey and Son (August 17-September 21); The White Horses (August 28-September 11); Circus Boy (August 26); A Handful of Thieves (August 22). Write to R.N.I.D., [address removed].

by Michael Page
With Colin Blakely as Sgt. Taylor, C.I.D.
and Ronald Lacey as The Prisoner, Dennis Chinnery as Station Sergeant

The police bring in a man for questioning after he has thrown a brick through a shop window and violently resisted arrest. Sgt. Taylor is landed with interrogating the prisoner. It seems a routine case at first until Taylor discovers that the prisoner refuses to talk...
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Leader, David McCallum
and featuring Abbe Lane
"Scottish Rhapsody" features The Glen Dancers
"Oliver" features The Ralph Tobert Dancers and Sydney Johnson

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followed by Sunday Cricket Scoreboard
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Late Night Line-Up's weekly look at the cinema
Introduced by Philip Jenkinson who talks to Hollywood actor Glenn Ford

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