The four-page supplement of 1973 Open University programmes, as printed in Radio Times, is obtainable on request from Information Services (Ref EP), [address removed]

Gloucester finished third in last year's County Championship but were headed by Surrey in the League. So today's match, played in the picturesque Cotswold village of Moreton-in-Marsh, should be a close-fought contest.

During the tea interval at 4.10*: Profile of a Cricketer: Tony Lewis (Glamorgan and England) by John Arlott

Frank Bough introduces today's programme which includes news of today's other fixtures: Essex v Kent, Glamorgan v Hampshire, Lancashire v Nottinghamshire, Middlesex v Sussex, Northamptonshire v Leicestershire, Warwickshire v Derbyshire, Worcestershire v Yorkshire
Commentators at Moreton-in-Marsh, John Arlott and Jim Laker

Weather

A digest of the news of the week plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear.
with Richard Baker

Here in the West Indies we are inviting the tourist to shut out reality. So it isn't that he now goes to another country to meet people. He goes to a kind of air-conditioned Shangri-la fantasy world. (Sylvia Wynter, lecturer, University of the West Indies)
In London this week the West India Committee is holding a conference to discuss the problems of what has been called 'high technology tourism.' The traditional image of the Caribbean - an exotic cocktail of sun, sand, sea and sex-is under assault.
People in these small tropical islands are asking whether tourism inevitably means social disruption and further dependence on foreign capital. This has been recognised at an early stage in Dominica - this rugged, beautiful and unspoilt island may yet find another way.
(From Bristol)
A BBC/Bayerischer Rundfunk co-production

A Workshop film about the great French composer Olivier Messiaen based on two major works Poemes pour Mi (1937), Chronochromie (1960)
with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, leaders Bela Dekany, Eli Goren
and Felicity Palmer (soprano)

by Evan Jones
With Michael Bryant as Chris, Ted Ray as Father, Suzanne Neve as Ann, Ernest Clark as the Colonel

Chris, a writer, set out to be a genius and has settled for being a success. But he still nurses doubts about this situation, so he takes himself off from his family and asks himself certain questions...

An Entertainment with words and music by Spike Milligan
with John Bluthal, Stella Tanner, John Antrobus, Alan Clare, Christopher Langham,
Patricia Ridgway and Design

Starring America's chart-topping singer-songwriter
with special guest B.J. Arnau
featuring Bill and Taffy, Pan's People, Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra

Weather

with William Rushton, John Wells and Clive James