Introduced direct from Old Trafford by Frank Bough

In the last of the present BBC2 series, Lancashire, the Gillette Cup champions of 1971 and the leading exponents of limited-over cricket during the past two seasons, today play a special challenge match under John Player League rules for prize money totalling £300.
During the tea interval at 4.0* Profile of a Cricketer: Sir Len Hutton (Yorkshire and England) by John Arlott

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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

A film by Hugh Gibb
The Middle Kingdom has passed away. It was the name used by the Chinese Emperors to describe their ancient land, a country situated between Heaven and Earth. Just as the Middle Kingdom is no more, so in mainland China the exotic customs, rites and age-old pageantry have gone. They still live, however, in the group of islands we know as Hong Kong.

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The first appearance outside North America of the brilliant Chicago Symphony Orchestra under their chief conductor Georg Solti

The programme consists of:
Mendelssohn Overture: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Brahms Symphony No 1, in C minor
Part of a concert given in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, on 4 September
Introduced by Tom Fleming

"Is the Chicago Symphony the greatest orchestra in America? Stravinsky has said so, and it was impossible not to agree with him when this orchestra appeared under the baton of Georg Solti" (New Yorker)
(This Week's Sounds: page 13)

by Aldous Huxley
Dramatised in five parts by Robin Chapman
Starring Ian Richardson

Helen returned to London and told Mark about the dog which fell on her and Anthony. Mark has gone to St Raphael to see Anthony.

Rowan and Martin invite you back to their Laugh-In
This week's star guest Peter Lawford
With Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi, Gary Owens, Alan Sues, Lily Tomlin, Dennis Allen, Johnny Brown, Ann Elder, Barbara Sharma

A Schlatter/Friendly production for NBC

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Cricket Scoreboard and Weather

Nell Dunn, best-selling writer of Up the Junction, Poor Cow and Talking to Women, looks back over her week.
'How to achieve a passionate intimacy and a spiritual space with a man - that is my endeavour.'