The Middlesex side, loaded with successful England players like Parfitt, Titmus, Murray and Russell, have promised so much for the last two seasons but have somehow failed to live up to expectations. And their opponents are not without talent. They have former England captain Mike Smith who plays well in 40-over cricket, Alan Smith, the playing member of the England selectors, Rohan Kanhai, and Lance Gibbs.

During today's tea interval, at approximately 4.0 pm, Lord's Taverner Sam Kydd reads The Pavilion Cat by E. V. Lucas.

Frank Bough introduces the programme which includes news of all today's other cricket fixtures: Derbyshire v Surrey, Gloucestershire v Somerset, Hampshire v Essex, Kent v Worcestershire, Leicestershire v Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire v Yorkshire, Sussex v Lancashire

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

Marcel Ichac's award-winning film about the conquest of Annapurna by a French team in 1950. At the time, Annapurna was the highest peak ever scaled.

The film is introduced by Captain Henry Day, one of the two army officers sponsored by the Army Mountaineering Association, who, 20 years later, took the same route and reached the summit on 20 May this year.
Captain Day is the first to acknowledge the debt mountaineers owe to the Frenchmen Maurice Herzog and the late Louis Lachenal who suffered such severe hardships in their battle with the world's tenth highest mountain.

A series played for laughs and with a song or two from Carol Burnett and her guest Carol Channing
With Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, Vicki Lawrence, The Ernest Flatt Dancers
(A programme recorded in America)

Sir Adrian Boult conducts Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 5: with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, co-leader Gerald Jarvis

Written in time of war, but prophetic of peace, Vaughan Williams's D major Symphony is a summary of the visionary side of the composer's genius and describes the nature of true peace in the hearts of those who have faced conflicts and come through them.
Introduced by Richard Baker

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

Melmotte has been elected to the House of Commons. He has been given two days to produce £80,000 to pay for Pickering, and is trying to persuade Marie to make her fortune over to him.

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

An impression of the life and work of the eccentric Victorian architect who, 100 years ago, rebuilt Cardiff Castle as a medieval palace.
I have been brought up in the 13th-century belief, and in that belief I intend to die.

Introduced by Tony Bilbow with Philip Jenkinson
This week: Alain Delon in "Borsalino" and "The Sicilian Clan". Richard Harris filming the sun-vow ceremony in "A Man Called Horse".