Under the astute captaincy of their wicket-keeper and England selector Alan Smith, Warwickshire have in the past few weeks consolidated their position amongst the leaders in the League. Today they play their final Sunday fixture and against the enterprising Hampshire side will need all the talents of a well-balanced team if they are to figure in the share-out of prize money at the end of the season.

During today's tea interval at approximately 4.0 pm Lord's Taverner Michael Craig will read Horace Cairie's Innings by Hugh de Selincourt.

Commentators at Edgbaston, John Arlott and Jim Laker.
Frank Bough introduces the programme which includes news of all today's other cricket fixtures: Glamorgan v Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire v Yorkshire, Leicestershire v Middlesex, Sussex v Somerset, Worcestershire 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.
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The Grizzly Bear has roamed North America for a million years. But this towering beast that can walk like a man was brought to the point of extinction by the invention of the repeating rifle. Today's inventions, however, are to the Grizzly's advantage, and the latest scientific devices are enabling John and Frank Craighead to discover the secrets of the great bear so that it may be preserved.
A National Geographic film produced In association with Wolper Productions Inc (from Bristol)

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

Denis Matthews explores the Beethoven Sketchbooks
"I carry my ideas with me for a long time, rejecting and rewriting until I am satisfied," Beethoven said. He laboured hard over every note, and his sketchbooks give a unique insight into his own workshop and into the creative process of composition.
Also taking part:
The Allegri String Quartet - Hugh Maguire (violin), David Roth (violin), Patrick Ireland (viola), Bruno Schrecker (cello)

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

by Gustave Flaubert
Dramatised in four parts by Hugh Leonard

On his way to the races in an open carriage with Rosanette, Frederic is dismayed when they are seen by Madame Arnoux.

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Tony Bilbow talks to Pierpaolo Pasolini, the Italian film-maker, poet and intellectual whose films have been misunderstood by critics and banned by the Vatican. The programme includes excerpts from: Gospel according to St Matthew; Theorem; Oedipus Rex; and Pigsty.

Philip Jenkinson looks back at some vintage Continental films.