Direct from Peterborough
The Northamptonshire attack this season is strengthened by the arrival of Bedi, the Indian slow left-arm bowler whose immaculate length and direction had much to do with India's victory over England last season. Lancashire, already acknowledged as wonderful exponents of the one-day game, will be striving to regain the trophy they lost last year.

During the tea-interval at 4.10*: Profile of a Cricketer: Ian Chappell (South Australia and Australia) by John Arlott

Frank Bough introduces the programme, which includes news of all today's other fixtures.
Commentators at Peterborough John Arlott and Jim Laker

For the deaf and hard of hearing a commentary appears visually.
Presented by John Edmunds
and Weather

Edited and introduced by John Amis

Julian Bream plays his own completion of Alan Rawsthorne's last work, Elegy for Guitar.

Pacific 231
Honegger's famous locomotive tone-poem sparks off a historical-Iyrico-serio-comical railway journey.

Music Stimulates Poetry: pupils from Frensham Heights School demonstrate a teaching experiment introduced by Keith Ramsay.

Alexander Tcherepnin, pianist-composer (born 1899), tells of his Russian childhood and plays 'Bagatelles' he composed then.

Christopher Columbus spotted three mermaids off the coast of Haiti in 1493. 'They were not as beautiful as they had been painted' he wrote. They were, in fact, manatees - perhaps the least well-known of the world's mammals.

Cousteau and his team of divers follow these distant relatives of the elephant on their migration through the swamps and glades of Florida. Then they undertake the dramatic and difficult task of returning a captive manatee to the wild.

A production of Les Requins Associes and Metromedia Producers Corporation
(from Bristol)

from The Talk of the Town
With Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra

Hieroglyphs are among the most easily recognisable features of Ancient Egyptian culture. With their eyes, hands, animal figures and so on, they are probably the most beautiful form of writing ever invented. But most of the time the Ancient Egyptian scribes put their hieroglyphs and other scripts derived from them to very businesslike purposes. On their papyrus writing paper, they amassed a formidable volume of records, accounts, calculations and book-keeping. The scribes were the essential administrative backbone of a highly organised state machine.
Introduced by Cyril Aldred from the Tutankhamun Exhibition at the British Museum.
(Book 60p: see page 58)

Line-Up takes a last look at the week with Kenny Everett, Humphrey Lyttelton, Roger McGough, Don McLean, William Rushton, John Wells ...among others.