Today's match between the team led by England's current captain Ray Illingworth and the reigning county champions from South Wales is played in the appropriate setting of the Coalville Youth and Community Centre near Snibston Colliery, Leics.

During today's tea interval, at approximately 4.0 pm, Lord's Taverner Nicholas Parsons reads "Cricket Made Easy" by J.C. Clay.

David Vine introduces the programme which includes news of all today's other cricket fixtures: Essex v Middlesex, Kent v Derbyshire Lancashire v Somerset, Surrey v Warwickshire, Worcestershire v Gloucestershire, Yorkshire v Sussex

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

A new series played for laughs and with a song or two from Carol Burnett and her guests tonight Nanette Fabray, Trini Lopez
With Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, Vicki Lawrence The Ernest Flatt Dancers
(A programme recorded In America)

Ten tons of hovercraft arrive in the West African republic of Senegal, and the first stage of the expedition, the journey from St Louis to Bamako, begins.
Africa, between the towns and villages, is like outer space... and we, in our heaving, hissing, belching machine, are like comic astronauts exploring the great void, unaware of the fact that no man has ever touched upon the land and water which we merrily detonate in dust and spray, as if our purpose is to wake up a sleeping age and then disappear.
Written by John Pilger
(A co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk)
(Into the unknown by hovercraft: page 6)

Fantastic variations on a theme of knightly character by Richard Strauss
with Paul Tortelier (cello), Herbert Downes (viola)
New Philharmonia Orchestra leader Carlos Villa conducted by Franz-Paul Decker
Don Quixote, one of the world's great adventure stories, has captured the imagination of many artists and composers. Works by Daumier and by Dore are used to illustrate the theme.

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

The Mexican Railway Company has been formed. The Melmottes are to spend Easter with the Longestaffes in the country.

Tony Bilbow introduces two new films, Cromwell and They Shoot Horses Don't They?
Guest Charles Aznavour with scenes from Candy, The Adventurers, and his latest film The Games which has just opened in London.