Frank Bough introduces today's match in the Player's County League

When Lancashire became the worthy first-ever League champions way back on 24 August, interest in this competition naturally shifted to the battle for second and third places and their respective prizes of £500 and £250.
Surrey could still participate in this prize list if they win this their final Sunday fixture. As their late run of form also made them serious challengers for the County Championship title there is added interest in this match with Gloucestershire, who for so long this season headed the Championship table

Commentary team at The Oval, John Arlott, Brian Johnston, Jim Laker
Today's other fixtures: Sussex v Glamorgan, Warwickshire v Derbyshire, Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire

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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 Weather
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Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of this famous scientist and writer, best-known for his prodigious four-year journey across South America and for the Pacific current which bears his name. Foremost among the many Latin-American nations to celebrate this event will be Mexico, visited by Humboldt in 1803-4 and where he is revered as one of the founders of the country's independence from Spain.
In this birthday tribute Robert Cundy follows Humboldt's route across Mexico from ocean to ocean, Acapulco to Vera Cruz. He descends silver mines and climbs recently erupted volcanoes to present a portrait of a country whose diverse landscape and mysterious past presented an irresistible challenge to a scientist and humanist fascinated by everyone and everything
(from BBC South and West)
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In part of the first Promenade Concert to be given by this world-famous orchestra from Prague
Vaclav Neumann conducts
Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride
Smetana Symphonic Poem Blanik (Ma vlast)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat major
with Eva Bernathova (piano)
Introduced by Richard Baker

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Earlier this year John Hillaby, a 52-year-old Yorkshireman, set out to walk through Europe. He has done this sort of thing before: a 1,000-mile walk through Africa to Lake Rudolph in 1960; a 1,100-mile walk through Britain from Land's End to John o'Groats in 1965. This year it was to be 1,400 miles, from the flatlands of Holland to the rocky coast of the Mediterranean
He walks 20 to 30 miles a day for day after day, observing the countryside and the people through the trained eye of a journalist and scientist. To most people he meets en route he is an incomprehensibly eccentric Englishman. But how eccentric is it to want to be free; to sleep out on a carpet of flowers in an Alpine meadow; to escape from what Hillaby calls 'the plastic bag in which we live'?
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Leader David McCallum
featuring Richard Kiley, Anni Anderson
and Sidney Johnson
(Richard Kiley is appearing in 'Man of La Mancha' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London)
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by Hugo Charteris
The setting is Cassino, Italy, in 1944: a company fighting in the forward area is commanded by a Regular Officer who has no previous experience under fire

When this play was first shown last year the Daily Telegraph wrote: '...there was scope for Barrie Ingham to give a beautifully judged performance as Boy'
(Barrie Ingham is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
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A weekly look at the cinema with stars - previews - and a dig into the past

This week's guest Michael Caine
The boy from Billingsgate who has become Britain's hottest box-office 'property', Michael has just completed "Too Late the Hero" in the Philippines and is now co-starring with Omar Sharif in "A Lost Valley," which is about the Thirty Years War.
Introduced by Tony Bilbow with Philip Jenkinson
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