10.35 Social Sciences: 23: Frontiers and Boundaries

11.5 Science: 22: The Earth: Its Shape, Internal Structure and Composition

11.35 Mathematics: 23: Error-correcting Codes

12.5 Arts: 22: Vasari's Life of Donatello

(to 12.30)

Direct from Worksop

Notts, after an unhappy start to the season, are now running into something like their true form. Sussex well versed in limited over cricket will in turn be looking to England's hero in Australia John Snow and former England skipper Ted Dexter to supply the answers.

During the tea interval at 4.0 pm* Profile of a Cricketer: Garfield Sobers (Notts and West Indies) by Jim Laker

David Vine introduces the programme which includes news of today's other fixtures.
Commentators at Worksop, John Arlott and Jim Laker

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

What is it?
Where does it come from?
How much do you know about it?
Chairman Professor Barry Cunliffe, Southampton University
The chairman challenges a team of archaeologists to identify and discuss objects from the period in Britain between the end of the Roman Occupation in 500 AD and the Norman Conquest in 1066.
Team:
Kate Pretty, Researcher in Archaeology, Cambridge University
Peter Fowler, Staff Tutor in Archaeology, University of Bristol
Professor Charles Thomas, Professor of Archaeology, University of Leicester

In the midst of a vast snowfield, the dark speck of a man, squat, fur-muffled, motionless. Lilliaxi, the Eskimo hunter, crouches beside a seal's breathing-hole. Around him lies an endless empty land, harsh but beautiful. This is the old picture of the Canadian North. But now ice-breaker and oil rig, prospector and aeroplane have shattered the old, cold dream, and igloos are things of the past.

A BBC/National Film Board of Canada co-production

Alwin Nikolais creates The Relay, a new work specially for television. I'm not concerned with storytelling or meaning; it is more a sentient involvement.
Using the unique properties of both movie film and video electronics, Nikolais has collaborated with BBC Television to produce this striking mixed media experience, The Relay.
The Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre begin their London season tomorrow.
Something of the man is seen as he works in his New York studio, teaching, rehearsing and composing, and in the BBC studios while shooting this Nikolais Original.
(Radio Times People: page 5)

[Starring] Iain Cuthbertson, Michael Gambon, Edith Macarthur
Guest stars Joseph Greig, John Stone, Gordon Richardson

Gavin Ker defends his bonded tenant against torture and a monstrous charge.

Cricket Scoreboard and Weather

Starring Flip Wilson as himself - Freddie Johnson, the swinging bachelor - not to mention Miss Geraldine Jones, the swinging chick and this week's guests MJQ, Barbara Feldon, Hal Frazier and Art Carney

Joan Bakewell introduces this week's new films, including Claire's Knee, which won the 1970 Best French Film of the Year Award.
There's a round-up of news from the British studios and a preview of the new science fiction film The Andromeda Strain.
Philip Jenkinson shows more clips from vintage film musicals.