from Southampton

During the tea interval at 4.10* Talking Cricket
In his career Sir John Berry Hobbs scored an incredible 61,237 runs. Two of his friends, John Arlott and Alf Gover, recall moments from the life of this wonderful cricketer and gentleman.

Frank Bough introduces the programme which includes news of today's other fixtures.
Commentators at Southampton, John Arlott and Jim Laker

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A digest of the news of the week plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear.
With Michael De Morgan

Special edition for holidaymakers

If it's fine today our beaches will be trodden on by more feet than ever before - but how many of us look beneath our toes?
In Torbay, where this film was made, a certain Philip Gosse once looked... what's more, his writings about what he saw started an odd craze that for a time filled Victorian drawing-rooms with marine aquaria. Today teacher and film-maker Leslie Jackman treads the same beaches observing, collecting for his own aquaria, opening the eyes of schoolchildren - and, perhaps, holidaymakers.

(From Bristol)

That was how the 17th-century diarist John Evelyn described opera in Venice.
In this Workshop programme Raymond Leppard describes the early days of opera and shows how these Venetian extravaganzas by Monteverdi and Cavalli can be staged today.
The programme ends with the first known performance since 1643 of the final scene of L'Egisto by Cavalli
Kenneth Bowen as Egisto, Anne Howells as Clori, Richard Angas as Ipparco, Patricia Greig, Rosanne Creffield, Ann Murray, Norma Burrowes as The Four Hours
With the Academia Cavalliana

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

Helen returned to London and told Mark about the dog which fell on her and Anthony. Mark has gone to St Raphael to see Anthony.

Starring Alan Alda as Hawkeye, Wayne Rogers as Trapper John

Manpower crisis! Frank and Hot-lips have applied for transfers.

First shown early in 1972, this series shows four situations in which people try to communicate.

Families can go for years without a serious talk of any kind. When crisis comes - death, divorce, bankruptcy - members may discover they have never really understood one another.
For the Browns (this is not their real name), the London family in this film, the mother's earlier divorce began a series of problems with her teenage son. The family tries to discover how these developed, helped by a family therapist - Dr Aaron Esterson.
A BBCtv/KCETtv co-production

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