The afternoon's play direct from St Helen's Ground, Swansea

The closing overs direct from St Helen's Ground, Swansea

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David Attenborough in conversation with musicians. Tonight he talks to one of the most versatile of the day - Andre Previn

The case for London's third airport is based on several praiseworthy assumptions. That it will relieve the noise around London's airports; that Britain is running out of runways and terminal space.
The case against Maplin is that the best way to reduce airport noise is to exploit the new quiet engines; that Maplin and all that goes with it, motorways, rail links, a new town, an industrial zone, a new port, all add up to an environmental disaster; that Britain is not now short of and may never run out of runways or terminal space; that Maplin is an economic folly.

Starring Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
with Jimmy Durante, Richard Travis, Billie Burke, Reginald Gardiner

'Literary lion' Sheridan Whiteside is all sweetness and light in public, but in private he is a walking manual of the studied insult. When he slips and injures his hip while visiting Ernest Stanley's home, Whiteside takes over the household and forces the family to cater to his every whim.

This Week's Films: page 9

Six programmes on the civilisations of Turkey
Written and introduced by John Julius Norwich

The first programme of a new series in which Lord Norwich unravels the extraordinary history of the land we now know as Turkey. From Noah's Flood to the fall of Troy, Alexander the Great, Ephesus and St Paul, the fall of Byzantium, and the splendours of Topkapi and the Sultan's Harem - the almost extravagant history of Turkey stretches back into prehistory.

This week's programme, which like all those in the series was shot entirely on location, returns to the earliest beginnings and recounts the civilisations of Asia Minor up to the coming of the Greeks.

Turkish delights: page 4

with Richard Whitmore
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