The battle of the leaders - the current holders of the League title, Lancashire are again challenging strongly for the top honours of the Sunday League and today they face their near neighbours Derbyshire, who have, somewhat surprisingly, been the pace-setters since the start of the season.

During today's tea interval, at approximately 4.0 pm, Lord's Taverner Leslie Crowther will read extracts from The Brighter Side of Cricket by R.C. Robertson-Glasgow.

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

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

A new series played for laughs and with a song or two from Carol Burnett and her guests tonight Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Nancy Wilson

Veterans of some long-running comedy shows themselves, Lucille Ball and Eddie 'Green Acres' Albert join singer Nancy Wilson and Carol Burnett in Carol's own soap opera As the Stomach Turns.
with Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, Vicki Lawrence The Ernest Flatt Dancers

The hovercraft expedition has so far travelled 800 miles from the west coast of Africa to Bamako, capital of Mali. Tonight's programme, the second of three covering the progress of the hovercraft, follows the course of the expedition along the immense reaches of the Niger -the great river that divides the southern-most fringe of the Sahara Desert from the dark jungles of Africa.
Written by John Pilger
(A co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk)

Clement Freud introduces music and pictures from an exceptionally long time ago with The Dolmetsch Family, Christopher Monk, Jeremy Montagu, David Munrow and The Early Music Consort, Francis Baines and The Jaye Consort, James Harpham and The Wooden O together with a great richness of sackbuts, psalteries, lutes, cornetts, sausage bassoons and racketts, etc, performed by the people who love them, collect them, make them, and play them.
Written and produced by Herbert Chappell

Written by John Fortune and Eleanor Bron
With Eleanor Bron, John Fortune

The prosecution puts its case against Lauren Watson, the Black Panther charged with resisting arrest.
Principal witnesses called by attorney Wright Morgan are the arresting officer Cantwell, whom Watson suspects of harassing him to prevent him speaking at a Panther meeting, and Officer Frizzini.
Attorney Leonard Davies cross-examines the witnesses for the defence, and Judge Zita Weinshienk presides in this unique film of an actual trial taking place.
Introduced by Robert MacNeil
Made in the US by NET
(Tomorrow at 10.30: The defence case)
(The City versus Lauren R. Watson: p 12)