10.35 Social Sciences: 18: Psychology of Social Class

11.5 Science: 17: Growth and Replication

11.35 Mathematics: 18: Statistics and Probability (ii)

12.5 Technology: The Man-made World

(to 12.30)

direct from Lord's
BBC2 begins its coverage of the 1971 series with one of today's outstanding matches between two sides under new captaincy. Geoff Boycott, one of England's heroes in Australia during the winter, has taken over the Yorkshire leadership and Mike Brearley has resigned as lecturer in Philosophy at Newcastle University to become the new captain of Middlesex.

During the tea interval at 4.0*: Profile of a Cricketer: D.C.S. Compton, CBE
(Middlesex and England) by Trevor Bailey

Frank Bough introduces the programme which includes news of today's other fixtures: Derbyshire v Somerset, Gloucestershire v Surrey, Hampshire v Northamptonshire, Sussex v Leicestershire, Warwickshire v Kent

The best of the week's news film. For the deaf and hard of hearing a commentary appears visually.
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Siberia first became notorious as a place of exile; now the Russians have discovered there a wealth of oil, diamonds, gold and minerals. But all these treasures are largely inaccessible. Siberia is huge - it takes up nearly a tenth of all the land on earth -much of it in the 'permafrost' belt where the earth is always frozen solid down to hundreds of feet below the surface.

Douglas Botting is one of the few people to have seen Siberia from the far north
- where the tribes-men herd their reindeer across a vast desert of snow - to the industries and research establishments further south. This is the new Siberia: the living's still hard but the wages are high and some people now go there willingly.
Spoken and written by Douglas Botting

BBC2 presents the world premiere of Benjamin Britten's first television opera commissioned by the BBC
based on the story by Henry James
Boys of Wandsworth School
director of music Russell Burgess
English Chamber Orchestra
leader Kenneth Sillito
associate conductor Steuart Bedford
conducted by Benjamin Britten
Recorded in The Maltings, Snape

(Picture guide: pp 52-54. A gramophone recording: Radio 3 next Sunday, 23 May)
(Colour)

Philip Jenkinson shows Bette Davis, Boris Karloff, Marlene Dietrich, Basil Rathbone and Peter Lorre in off-beat roles.

Starring Peter Finch, Adrienne Corri
with Rosalie Crutchley, Finlay Currie

Since boyhood, Charlie has been obsessed with Wedgwood pottery. Only one piece has eluded him - a famous Portland vase - until one day at a country auction...
(This Week's Films: page 14)

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