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Kent have only to gain one point from their remaining two matches to be League Champions for the second successive year. Today they will be bidding to clinch the title by repeating their victory over Worcestershire in the final of the Benson and Hedges Cup.

During the tea interval at 4.10* Talking Cricket
In 1960 at Brisbane there happened perhaps the most exciting moment in cricket: the First Test of the series between Australia and the West Indies was tied. Jim Laker and Richie Benaud recall this historic occasion.

Peter Walker introduces the programme which includes details of today's other fixtures.
Commentators at Canterbury, John Arlott and Jim Laker

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Walker
Commentator:
John Arlott
Commentator/Speaker (Talking Cricket):
Jim Laker
Speaker (Talking Cricket):
Richie Benaud
TV Presentation:
Roy Norton
TV Presentation:
Dewi Griffiths
Series Producer:
Bill Taylor

A digest of the news of the week and other world matters of interest seen by news cameras around the world. The interesting, the picturesque, the important and the dramatic - plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear.
With Michael De Morgan

Contributors

Newsreader:
Michael de Morgan
Editor:
Bill Northwood

A second chance to see the lives of the world's most carefully guarded women... the women of the harem. We follow the two days of festivities as the people of Dubai celebrate the marriage of their Crown Prince. The ceremony is unique: for the first time ever the bride removes her veil before her husband, a sign that even in the harem women are gaining independence.

Contributors

Narrator:
Shusha Guppy
Film Cameraman:
Vernon Layton
Director:
Eve Arnold
Series edited by:
Anthony Isaacs
Series edited by:
Christopher Parsons

with guest stars Cilla Black, Maggie Fitzgibbon, Labi Siffre
and featuring Julian Orchard

Contributors

Entertainer:
Harry Secombe
Singer:
Cilla Black
Guest:
Maggie Fitzgibbon
Singer:
Labi Siffre
[Actor]:
Julian Orchard
Programme Associate:
Jimmy Grafton
Orchestra directed by:
Peter Knight
Designer:
Peter Brachacki
Producer:
Terry Hughes

The Yorkshire mezzo-soprano talks to Bernard Levin about the career which has made her one of the most sought-after singers in the world and sings music with which she is particularly associated
with Elizabeth Bainbridge, Jennifer Hill
English Chamber Orchestra leader and solo violin Kenneth Sillito solo harp John Marson conductor and accompanist Raymond Leppard
Voices for the World-Sir Geraint Evans: Friday at 9.25 pm BBC1

Contributors

Mezzo-soprano/Interviewee:
Janet Baker
Interviewer:
Bernard Levin
Singer:
Elizabeth Bainbridge
Singer:
Jennifer Hill
Musicians:
English Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra leader/Violinist:
Kenneth Sillito
Harpist:
John Marson
Conductor/Accompanist:
Raymond Leppard
Designer:
Don Taylor
Producer:
Patricia Foy

Starring Alan Alda as Hawkeye, Wayne Rogers as Trapper John

The camp is grinding to a halt. Inexplicably, the ever-efficient Radar has lost interest in the whole operation...

Contributors

Director:
Earl Bellamy
Hawkeye:
Alan Alda
Trapper John:
Wayne Rogers
Colonel Blake:
McLean Stevenson
Radar:
Gary Burghoff
Hotlips:
Loretta Swit
Maj Frank Burns:
Larry Linville

by Aldous Huxley
Dramatised in five parts by Robin Chapman
Starring Ian Richardson

Aldous Huxley's controversial novel examines the effects of new philosophies on European society in the 1930s. The dominant theme, active pacifism, is examined through the experiences of Anthony Beavis - 'a modest philosopher.'

Adrienne Corri's choice: page 5

Contributors

Author:
Aldous Huxley
Dramatised by:
Robin Chapman
Producer:
Martin Lisemore
Director:
James Cellan Jones
Anthony Beavis:
Ian Richardson
Helen Ledwidge:
Lynn Farleigh
Brian (boy):
Christopher Vale
Anthony (boy):
Jeremy Richardson
Brian Foxe:
Gareth Forwood
Hugh Ledwidge:
Clifford Rose
Gerry Watchett:
Trader Faulkner
Receptionist:
Marguerite Young
Mary Amberley:
Adrienne Corri
Beppo Bowles:
Peter Stephens
Mr Croyland:
Llewellyn Rees
Mr Caldwell:
Jonathan Scott
Mark Staithes:
Michael Gambon
Ekki Giesebrecht:
Harry Brooks Jr

BBC Two England

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BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

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