The world's fastest sports car race ends at Le Mans in just over two hours' time. The second of three special Wheelbase reports on the progress of the race and the drivers and cars taking part in it.
In collaboration with the French Television Service
Cricket: The John Player League: Essex v Lancashire
The clash of the experts - Lancashire who won the League title last year and Essex who came third. Their captains, Jackie Bond and Brian Taylor, are both shrewd tacticians who know how to use to the full the talents of such players as Farokh Engineer, Clive Lloyd, Keith Boyce, and Keith Fletcher.
During today's tea interval at approximately 4.0 pm: The finish of the 1970 Le Mans 24-Hour Race.
David Vine introduces the programme which includes news of all today's other cricket fixtures: Kent v Northamptonshire, Derbyshire v Hampshire, Leicestershire v Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire v Middlesex, Surrey v Somerset, Sussex v Warwickshire
6.30 Interval
Barbara Mullen introduces the third of four programmes of hymns for all seasons sung by choirs and congregations throughout the country featuring Huddersfield Choral Society, Orpington Junior Singers, Kevin Mayhew Singers
The hymns are selected from recent Songs of Praise programmes on BBC1.
The best of the week's news film from all over the world, together with other subjects of interest. For the deaf and hard of hearing a commentary appears visually.
and Weather
Starring Jane Fonda, Peter Finch, Angela Lansbury
In tonight's romantic film Jane Fonda plays a frail but attractive girl, over-protected by her New York publisher husband, who falls in love with a married man while on a trip to Greece.
A poetic evocation of a landscape that inspired genius
An award-winning film produced by Joe Mendoza and Patrick Carey
by Charlotte Bronte
Dramatised in five parts by Lennox Phillips
Lucy has suffered a nervous collapse which has led to a reunion with her godmother, Mrs Bretton. Her feelings for Dr John make her resent his infatuation for Ginevra.
Beethoven in the years 1814-1827
A series of three documentary films for the bicentenary of the composer's birth
with extracts from Piano Sonata, Op 111
Hans Richter-Haaser
Symphony No 9, in D minor
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Loughran
String Quartets: C sharp minor, Op 131; A minor, Op 132; F major, Op 135
Tatrai Quartet
(Alan Howard is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
(The complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies begins Friday BBC2)
Joe Orton's play Loot has now been made into a film. The stars, Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, Hywel Bennett and Milo O'Shea, the director, Silvio Narizzano, and the producer, Arthur Lewis, talk about the adaptation.
Written by John Fortune and Eleanor Bron
with Eleanor Bron, John Fortune
Song by Ray Davies
Sung by The Kinks
