During the second half of last season Hampshire found the form and inspiration which eventually placed them as runners-up for the League title: any ideas they may have had about continuing such domination were rudely halted when they were well beaten by a resurgent Somerset in their opening match of this season. Today's task will be no easier, for this season Surrey can boast one of the most talented sides in county cricket.

During today's tea interval at approximately 4.0 pm Lord's Taverner Sam Kydd (right) reads "Our Village" by Sir Neville Cardus.

Frank Bough introduces the programme, which also includes news of all today's other fixtures: Derby v Gloucestershire, Essex v Leicestershire, Kent v Warwickshire, Lancashire v Northamptonshire, Somerset v Middlesex, Sussex v Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire v Glamorgan

The best of the week's newsfilm from all over the world.
For the deaf and hard of hearing a commentary appears visually
and Weather

Rowan and Martin invite you to laugh-a-second-time at their Laugh-In

This week's star guests: Debbie Reynolds, Peter Sellers and Johnny Carson
and featuring Judy Carne, Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi, Henry Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Alan Sues, Jo Anne Worley, Teresa Graves, Pamela Rodgers, Jeremy Lloyd, Byron Gilliam and Gary Owens
A Schlatter/Friendly production for NBC

Written by Stuart Hood

Scarborough... the first British seaside resort.
Bridlington... Charlotte Bronte saw the sea here for the first time - and wept.
Grimsby... a great fishing port - a busy, noisy, thriving town; yet from the sea on a misty day it looks like a romantic Italian city.

When Stuart Hood was 12 years old, his father took him from Montrose, in Angus, by sea to London. The Bird's-Eye View helicopter follows the route of his journey of discovery south, over the salmon boats, the red cliffs and abbey of Arbroath, the lighthouses, the islands and castles of Berwick and Northumberland, the black beaches of Durham, the beautiful lonely flatlands of Lincolnshire and Norfolk, the Suffolk coast of Peter Grimes, the birds and fisherboys of the Essex mud-flats - and then into London's river.

Presented by Robin Ray

Watching Music
Charles Ives once asked, 'Hell, what has music got to do with sound?' In this film (which is about the behaviour of musicians as they communicate with each other while they perform) we ask whether we can see a continuity between old and new music if we consider not the sound of music, but the processes which go into making it.

The Allegri String Quartet play Schubert; The Gentle Fire play Stockhausen.

Music Now takes a long look at music on television. What should be done, what are the problems, what is its effectiveness?

by Henry James
Dramatised in four parts by Denis Constanduros

Mrs Brigstock has found Owen visiting Fleda. Owen has followed Fleda to her sister's, and she has confessed her feelings for him. Nevertheless she has insisted that he sees Mona in order to break his engagement.

A dissertation on bedmanship
The Norwegian Montreux entry which won the Bronze Rose at the 1970 Montreux Festival.
Written and directed by Erik Diesen and Sverre Christophersen
Cast: Solvi Wang, Harald Heide Steen Jr, Lasse Kolstad, Willie Hoel, Ingeborg Cook, Arve Opsahl, Turid Balke, and others

Introduced by Philip Jenkinson
with excerpts from Flying down to Rio (1933), The Gay Divorce (1934), Top Hat (1935), Swing Time (1936), Follow the Fleet (1936)