The pairing of today's fixture brings together two Counties not previously televised in this competition this season. Like most of the English Counties they possess an abundance of individual and collective talent-yet for both this has been a season of paradox.

During today's tea interval at approximately 4.0 pm Lord's Taverner Ray Barrett reads "Opposing My Hero" by Arthur Mailey.

David Vine introduces the programme which includes news of all today's other cricket fixtures: Glamorgan v Gloucestershire, Middlesex v Kent, Northamptonshire v Essex, Nottinghamshire v Hampshire

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 a commentary appears visually.
Presenter Michael De Morgan
and Weather

(Colour)

A new series played for laughs and with a song or two from Carol Burnett and her guests tonight Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin
With Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, Vicki Lawrence, The Ernest Flatt Dancers

An understanding of the workings of the insect world is, in many cases, vital to our very survival. Insect pests must be destroyed, and some techniques can set insect against insect to this end. But there is much about these grotesque, terrifying, but frequently beautiful creatures to capture our imagination. Their shapes and colours often give them an 'alien' appearance, and the fact that many spend most of their lives tucked away out of sight has led to theirs being thought of as 'the hidden world.'
(A National Geographic Society film produced in association with Wolper Productions Inc: from Bristol)

Otto Klemperer conducts Symphony No 9, in D minor
New Philharmonia Chorus chorus-master Wilhelm Pitz
New Philharmonia Orchestra leader Emanuel Hurwitz
Teresa Zylis-Gara (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), George Shirley (tenor), Theo Adam (bass)

Otto Klemperer celebrates the bicentenary of the composer's birth with performances of the nine symphonies. Tonight's programme, recorded at a public concert in the Royal Festival Hall, completes the cycle with Beethoven's last great orchestral work, the 'Choral' Symphony.

Written by John Fortune and Eleanor Bron

With Eleanor Bron, John Fortune

by Anthony Trollope
Dramatised in five parts by Simon Raven
Starring Colin Blakely, Rachel Gurney

London in the 1870s is gripped in a fever of speculation. The latest figure to emerge at the centre of this scene is Augustus Melmotte, reputed to possess a large fortune.
(Colour) [Repeat]
(Repeated on Friday, 8.25pm)

Introduced by Tony Bilbow
Guest: Horror star Peter Cushing
Philip Jenkinson looks at some vintage horror movies.