from Lord's
Middlesex finished fifth in the League last year after the disappointment of losing their last three matches. They have made a good start this season and Mike Brearley and his well-balanced side will be striving for honours again. Somerset, seventh in the League last year, are led by Brian Close and their batting this season is strengthened by the arrival of Jim Parks from Sussex.
During the tea interval at 4.10*: Profile of a Cricketer: Glenn Turner (Worcestershire and New Zealand) by John Arlott
Frank Bough introduces the programme which includes news of today's other fixtures.
(Colour)
Weather
A digest of the news of the week plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear.
with Michael De Morgan
(Colour)
The last bone peg is hammered home with a stone; the last sinew stitch drawn tight in the caribou skin. The kayak is complete, and a stone-age craft is launched. The place is Pelly Bay in the Canadian Arctic; the year 1960. Even as late as this the People of the Seal were still following their ancient way of life.
Now all this has changed - but not before a complete record of the old way had been filmed. The result is a programme that starts out as a succession of fascinating pictures, but slowly turns into something more - the understanding of another way of life.
A BBC/National Film Board of Canada co-production
(From Bristol)
[Repeat]
The brilliant young American pianist who won the 1972 Leeds International Piano Competition by a rare unanimous verdict plays Chopin Sonata in B flat minor, 'Funeral March.'
The programme also includes three Sonatas by Scarlatti, the Fantaisie-Polonaise by Chopin, and three 'Songs Without Words' by Mendelssohn
by Michael J. Bird
A second chance to see six of the stories from this drama series followed by six new episodes.
Starring Ian Hendry, Wanda Ventham
with guest stars Maurice Denham, James Kerry, Sylvia Coleridge and Thorley Walters
Storm clouds gather over Aghios Nikolaos as Erik Shepherd and his customers await a stranger. 'We are all so vulnerable,' says Captain Krasakis. 'Conscience is every man's cross, as shame is his crown of thorns!
A new comedy film series starring Alan Alda as Hawkeye and Wayne Rogers as Trapper John
Hawkeye's appointment as Chief Surgeon infuriates Major Burns. And Hotlips makes an official complaint to HQ. Result: General Barker himself makes a surprise visit to the Unit to see just exactly what is going on. Which is a nerve-shattering experience for any poor unsuspecting general.
The last of a series of programmes starring America's chart-topping singer-songwriter
with special guest Donovan
featuring Bill and Taffy, Pan's People, Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra
(Colour)
Weather
John Wells, William Rushton, Keith Dewhurst, Clive James and their guests pay a special visit to the Oxford Union Debating Society as part of the Union's 150th anniversary celebrations.
