As the cricket season nears its completion Lancashire face the near incredible prospect of winning all three major England titles - the Championship, the Gillette Cup and the League. As defending title holders in the League they have maintained their ascendancy of last year to such an extent that they had only been beaten twice by the beginning of August - but in the last few weeks Warwickshire have emerged in the League as one of the counties likely to challenge them.

During today's tea interval, at approximately 4.0 pm, Lord's Taverner Eric Sykes will read extracts from Herbert Farjeon's Cricket Bag.

Frank Bough introduces the programme which includes news of all today's other cricket fixtures: Essex v Derbyshire, Gloucestershire v Kent, Hampshire v Glamorgan, Leicestershire v Northamptonshire, Middlesex v Surrey, Nottinghamshire v Somerset, Worcestershire v Yorkshire
('It could have killed cricket page 9)

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

Samoa, a tropical paradise in the South Pacific, is now faced with an agonising challenge.
The challenge is what some people call Progress, in this case American-style, complete with camera-toting tourists, educational television in every classroom, and an expanding economy that may be in conflict with Samoan traditional values.

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

One of the great ballet companies of the world
The Leningrad State Kirov Ballet are visiting the Royal Festival Hall, London, for a six-week season. Tonight you can see two pieces from their repertoire:

Pas de deux from Coppelia by Delibes
Elena Evteyeva, Mikhail Barishnikov

Nutcracker - Act 3 by Tchaikovsky

English Symphony Orchestra
Leader Peter Benson
Conductors Victor Fedotov, Victor Shirokov
Introduced by Andrew Porter
An outside broadcast televised by arrangement with Victor Hochhauser Ltd

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

by Gustave Flaubert
Dramatised in four parts by Hugh Leonard

Frederic has returned home to find that his mother cannot afford to let him return to Paris and he therefore believes he will never see Madame Arnoux again.
(Wandering from woman to woman: see pages 6 and 7)

Tony Bilbow talks to Michael York and Philip Jenkinson introduces extracts from vintage films.