Worcestershire, under the leadership of Norman Gifford, are proving to be the side to watch in the limited-over game. Their dramatic win over Lancashire in the Benson and Hedges Cup semi-final must rate as one of the most exciting sporting moments of 1973. Gloucestershire are still in touch with the League leaders and the skills of their South African all-rounder Mike Procter are always a pleasure to watch.
During the tea interval at 4.10* Profile of a Cricketer: Tom Graveney (Glos, Worcs and England) by John Arlott
Frank Bough introduces the programme which includes news of today's other fixtures.
(Colour)
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A digest of the news of the week plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear.
with Richard Baker
(Colour)
with Rena Briand
Opal fever has attracted fortune-seekers from all over the world to dig and burrow into the heart of Australia in search of the exquisite and timeless opal.
The world's richest opal field, Coober Pedy, lies in the middle of a vast sunburnt plain; the population live underground, like moles, sheltering from the heat, dust and flies. There are educated men and illiterate men, crooks, crackpots and vagabonds - all seized by the same insatiable hunger for opal.
from The Talk of the Town
with 'Richard'
A series of five widely differing ballets from Prague, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Frankfurt
Etudes is a ballet that derives from the long traditions of the Royal Danish Ballet, and ballet-master Harald Lander's ballet about ballet is based on the exercises that dancers do every day, from the very first day of training to the last.
The music, based on Czerny's etudes, the basic exercises of every pianist, was specially written by the Danish composer Knudaage Riisager.
This Danish Television production made in 1969, shortly before Harald Lander's death, also captures the last performances in this popular ballet of four great Danish ballet stars: Toni Lander, Erik Bruhn, Henning Kronstam and Flemming Flindt
with 40 dancers from the Royal Danish Ballet
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Poul Jorgensen
The series comes from the Royal College of Art, London, where Professor Stuart Hood gives students the opportunity of talking to the people who made these European ballet programmes.
Talking about Etudes are ballerina Toni Lander and producer Preben Montell.
Etudes: a Danish Television production
The Golden Link - Tamara Karsavina : Wednesday at 4.5 pm, Radio 4
A moving story of the surgeons who came in from the cold. More accurately, one surgeon whose thoughtful family send him a set of long underwear. And that's when the skulduggery starts because even dedicated men of medicine will go to any lengths to keep warm...
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