Even though Middlesex have been unable to fulfil their early promise in their bid for the championship, a win today could still put them in the first three and a share in the prize money.
4.10* Profile of a Cricketer: Brian Luckhurst (Kent and England) by John Arlott
(Colour)
Hymns selected from last year's Songs of Praise programmes from churches and chapels throughout Britain.
Introduced by Barbara Mullen
"Praise To The Lord" (Praxis Pietatis)
"Immortal, Invisible" (St Denis)
"Let Us Break Bread Together"
"Mine Eyes Have Seen" (Battle Song)
"Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost" (Charity)
"We Have Danced Along" (Beaumont)
"Will Your Anchor Hold?"
"O Worship The King" (Hanover)
The best of the week's film from all over the world, together with other subjects of interest. For the deaf and hard of hearing, a commentary appears visually.
With John Edmunds
Weather
Across the vast plains of Tanzania moves the greatest concentration of wild animals in East Africa. This area was once dominated by a fierce tribe of nomadic warriors – the Masai.
Today, they live in peace and this is the story of one Masai, Sam Ole Saitoti, who guides visitors through the spectacular wildlife of the Serengeti National Park. Once a year Sam returns to his tribal home to share in old customs and to witness a vital ceremony - the making of a Masai warrior.
Produced by the National Geographical Society and Wolper Productions Inc
BBC2 cameras were at the Royal Albert Hall recently to record the first of two Promenade Concerts with outstanding artists.
Pierre Boulez conducts a performance of Stravinsky's complete ballet "The Firebird" with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Bela Dekany. The programme begins with Stravinsky's "Symphonies of wind instruments" (original version).
Introduced by Antony Hopkins
(Part of the concert given on 25 August)
Six programmes exploring through song and conversation, different aspects of thought about living and loving.
Starring Mary Travers
with special guest Georgia Brown
featuring authoress Margaret Powell
(Colour)
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Dramatised in 13 parts by David Turner
Starring Michael Bryan, Georgia Brown
The Germans have occupied Paris but the expected armistice has still not been signed. Mathieu's unit is waiting in a village to surrender but Pinette hopes that they will fight.
Starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe
with Charles Coburn, Hugh Marlowe
Not another showing of the Marx Brothers classic but Howard Hawks's screwball comedy about a chemist who inadvertently discovers the elixir of life and tests it out on his wife and his board of directors.
Cary Grant plays the scientist, as he did in Hawks's "Bringing Up Baby", and Marilyn Monroe gets her first major comedy role.
