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from Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
Glamorgan have been very unlucky with injuries this season, but now with skipper Tony Lewis and West Indian opening bat Roy Fredericks fit again and the brilliant Pakistani Majid Khan available they will be looking to improve their position in the League; but Worcestershire who have been among the pace setters are a difficult side to beat in 40-over cricket.
Commentators at Cardiff, John Arlott and Jim Laker
During the tea interval at 4.0* Profile of a Cricketer: Ken Barrington (Surrey and England) by Jim Laker
Frank Bough introduces the programme which includes news of all today's other fixtures.

Contributors

Presenter:
Frank Bough
Commentator:
John Arlott
Commentator/Presenter (Profile of a Cricketer):
Jim Laker
Television Presentation:
Bob Duncan
Television Presentation:
David Brace
Series Producer:
Bill Taylor

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael de Morgan
Producer:
Bill Northwood

What is it?
Where does it come from?
How much do you know about it?
Chairman Professor Barry Cunliffe Southampton University
A.V.M? visits the Roman Palace at Fishbourne, Sussex, and the chairman challenges a team of archaeologists to identify and discuss objects found in the Palace and the surrounding area.
Team:
Kate Pretty, Researcher in Archaeology, Cambridge University
Dr Tony Birley, historian and archaeologist, Leeds University
Dr John Wild, Lecturer in Archaeology, Manchester University

Contributors

Chairman:
Professor Barry Cunliffe
Panellist:
Kate Pretty
Panellist:
Dr Tony Birley
Panellist:
Dr John Wild Director: Bob Toner
Producer:
Tony Broughton

The Everglades in Florida is the haunt of the alligator and a wealth of water birds, fish, snakes, deer and other creatures who all depend on water. People want to live here too. Now this unique river is running dry and Tony Soper travelled 2,000 miles in Southern Florida to find out why.
(from Bristol)

Contributors

Presenter:
Tony Soper
Producer:
Barry Paine
Executive Producer:
Christopher Parsons

Music on 2 presents a double bill:

Games
A television ballet film from Poland which won the 1970 Italia Prize. It is a paraphrase of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Choreographed by Konrad Drzewiecki to music by J. S. Bach treated electronically by Eugeniusz Rudnik

followed by
A Recital by Galina Vishnevskaya and Mstislav Rostropovich
The celebrated cellist Mstislav Rostropovich is heard in an unusual role tonight when he accompanies his wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, in songs by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.
This is followed by a performance of Bach's Suite No 3, in C major, for unaccompanied cello.
Introduced by Michael Flanders

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Flanders
Choreography (Games):
Konrad Drzewiecki
Music (Games):
J.S. Bach
Electronic music (Games):
Eugeniusz Rudnik
Director (Games):
Boleslaw Witanowski
Soprano (Recital):
Galina Vishnevskaya
Cellist (Recital):
Mstislav Rostropovich
Sound:
Ray Angel
Lighting:
Ken MacGregor
Designer:
Gloria Clayton
Producer:
Patricia Foy

by Bill Craig
[Starring] Iain Cuthbertson
Guest stars Peter Woodthorpe, Ellen McIntosh, Roger Delgado, Robert James, Simon Lack, Monique Lemaire

Cessford's attempts to uncover a traitor involve him in a charge of treason.
[Repeat]

Contributors

Writer/Series created by:
Bill Craig
Dance arranged by:
Belinda Quirey
Designer:
David McKenzie
Script Editor:
Martin Worth
Associate Producer:
Michael Glynn
Producer:
Anthony Coburn
Director:
Roger Jenkins
Cessford:
Iain Cuthbertson
Pringle:
Russell Waters
Earl of Morton:
Peter Woodthorpe
Lady Isobel Ker:
Ellen McIntosh
Mary, Queen of Scots:
Monique Lemaire
Sieur Le Trompeur:
Roger Delgado
Maitland of Lethington:
Robert James
Earl of Moray:
Simon Lack
Lady Mary:
Denise Buckley Fleming
Geordie:
Peter Whitbread
English Warden Sgt:
Roy Patrick

BBC Two England

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