The most compelling dramatist could not have written a more dramatic situation than that which faces Lancashire in their final League match of the season at Old Trafford today.
Finalists in next Saturday's Gillette Cup Final, among the front runners of the Championship proper, and for so long this season brilliantly defending their Player League title, they must today overcome none other than their most implacable opponents - Yorkshire - in order to bring them the first of the three titles.

During the tea interval, at approximately 4.0 pm, Lord's Taverner Trevor Bailey will read a selection from his own book The Greatest of My Time.

Frank Bough introduces the programme which includes news of all today's other fixtures.

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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where jaguars roam, free from the threat of skin collectors, and Indians are protected from civilisation if not from their neighbouring head-hunters.
Faced with a massive population explosion, Peru has plans for development and colonisation that will alter the face of the country, but conservationists have persuaded the government to set aside at least one patch of the wilderness.
(from Bristol)

A series played for laughs and with a song or two from Carol Burnett and her guests tonight Mel Torme, Martha Raye
with Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, Vicki Lawrence, The Ernest Flatt Dancers
(A programme recorded in America)

in a programme of Spanish and French songs including Clavelitos and El Vito, Faure's Au Bord de Veau and Les Roses d'ispahan, and Ravel's Chants Populaires.

Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden
with Jo Kendall
and Roland MacLeod, Nick McArdle, Yutte Stensgaard, Sue Glover, Sunny Weetman
and featuring Bill Oddie

by Gustave Flaubert
Dramatised in four parts by Hugh Leonard

Frederic has made Rosanette his mistress. Just as he is about to take her to the country, Mme Dambreuse declares her love for him.
(Colour)

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with excerpts from Dawn Patrol; Raffles; Around the World in 80 Days; Separate Tables; Prudence and the Pill; The Impossible Years.