from Cheltenham
Gloucestershire still have a good chance to finish in the first three and take a share of the £3,500 prize money, but they face a strong Warwickshire side today, which includes leading six-hitter John Jameson.

During the tea interval at 4.10* Profile of a Cricketer: Mike Smith (Warwickshire and England) by John Arlott

Peter Walker introduces the programme which includes news of today's other fixtures: Essex v Lancs; Leics v Surrey; Middlesex v Yorks; Northants v Sussex; Notts v Glamorgan; Somerset v Derbys; Worcs v Hants

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

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A tribute to Jean-Henri Fabre
with Ralph Michael as the great French entomologist

Fabre was born 150 years ago and by the beginning of this century he was known to thousands of readers for his vivid descriptions of insect behaviour. This film takes the form of an imaginary visit to his home in Provence where Fabre re-creates many of his field experiments for the camera.

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with guest stars Beryl Reid, Lulu, Viktor Klimenko, Peter Skellern
and featuring Julian Orchard

(First shown on BBC1)
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A series of five widely differing ballets from Prague, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Frankfurt.

Frankfurt State Theatre's young director of ballet John Neumeier created Rondo for a special evening of experimental ballets on contemporary themes. It was subsequently televised and in 1972 won the Italian Radio and Television Prize at the Prix Italia.
Rondo is in five movements. The choreography of each movement suggests: a sense of absolute harmony; endless struggle and purposelessness; a vacuum leading to a melancholy search for love and comfort; a more destructive continuation of the second movement; a refinding of the sense of harmony. The Rondo is complete. The music, a combination of five pieces ranging far apart in period and style, is by William Cornyshe (1465-1523), Jan Bark, Gustav Mahler, Jan Morthensen, Simon and Garfunkel.
Performed by the Ballet of the State Theatre, Frankfurt
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 Rondo are producer Manfred Grater who provided the scenario, TV director Klaus Lindemann, and the choreographer John Neumeier.
Rondo: a ZDF production

Starring Alan Alda as Hawkeye, Wayne Rogers as Trapper John

When is a Moose not a Moose? When it's a young slavegirl, that's when. Hawkeye and Trapper are horrified when Radar explains that the Korean girl carrying Sgt Baker's gear around for him is his 'moose,' a corruption of the Japanese word for girl. As she is only 17 and very pretty our two knights in rusty armour decide to rescue her from the clutches of evil. At least that's how they see it!

Philip Jenkinson tells the story behind a series of six classic 1930s Hollywood musicals which have their British television premieres starting next Tuesday on BBC2.
Among the stars featured are Al Jolson, Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Paul Robeson, Jeanette MacDonald, Bing Crosby and Maurice Chevalier.

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