Direct from the Recreation Ground, Bath

Essex, runners-up to Worcestershire last year by the most slender of margins, have not yet settled down in this year of rain-affected matches. However, it is still early days and while this experienced side begins to make its presence felt in the League, their West Indian all-rounder Keith Boyce is already among the leaders in the individual batting and bowling awards.

Brian Close, now captain of Somerset and much admired by his new followers, is hoping in return for the warmth of the welcome to bring a title to the West Country.

During the tea interval at 4.10* Profile of a Cricketer: Brian Close (Somerset) by John Arlott
Desmond Lynam introduces the programme which includes news of all today's other fixtures.
Commentators at Bath, John Arlott and Jim Laker

The best of the week's film
For the deaf and hard of hearing a commentary appears visually.
Presented by John Edmunds
and Weather

At the age of 17 Felix Mendelssohn was at the height of his musical powers, and his fame was rapidly spreading throughout the world. By the time he was 21 he had composed some of his finest works.

Excerpts from The Octet
The Quartet in A minor played by members of the English Chamber Orchestra directed by Jose-Luis Garcia

and Songs Without Words
played by John Lill (piano)

Hans Keller considers that some of Mendelssohn's early works are unsurpassed masterpieces, and explains why with some comments and guidance.
Introduced by Ian Engelmann

The exciting story of Tao Bong, 'The Good Man,' filmed in the jungles of the Philippine island of Mindanao.

Tao Bong is Manuel Elizade, a wealthy young Philippine businessman who got his nickname from the poor primitive peoples whom he has helped. What happens to primitive men and women when so-called civilisation encroaches upon their territory is well known: they are badgered, exploited, hunted like animals - at best enslaved and frequently exterminated. But not if Manuel Elizade can prevent it, even though it frequently means at the risk of his life.

A National Geographic Society film

Introduced by Peter Ustinov

Fifteen hundred veterans of the Leclerc Division - France's most famous fighting force of World War II - recently concluded a sentimental return to Great Britain with a special international gala at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Starring Mireille Matthieu, Cliff Richard
with Katie Boyle, La Garde Batterie-Fanfare de la Garde Republicaine and the Pipes and Drums of the 1st Bn Scots Guards

(Ustinov at the Albert Hall: page 12)

by Jean-Paul Sartre
Dramatised in 13 parts by David Turner
Starring Michael Bryant, Daniel Massey

Paris, 1938. A city famous for its 'characters,' a city between the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Hitler. A city where Mathieu lives - and Marcelle exists.

Tonight's final programme of the series looks at the life and times of Tutankhamun himself. The discovery of his treasure-filled tomb made this King world-famous.
He is the one Ancient Egyptian that everyone has heard of. But paradoxically, the details of his life are harder to make out than those of many another, less well known pharaoh.
His was a short and not very glorious reign in a troubled time, and a lot of detective work has been needed to piece together the facts about him -as they are presented in tonight's programme.
Introduced by Cyril Aldred from the Tutankhamun Exhibition at the British Museum
(Book 60p: see page 54)

Line-Up takes a last look at the week with James Cameron, Kenny Everett, Clive James, John Wells... among others