The four-page supplement of 1974 Open University programmes, as printed in Radio Times recently, is obtainable from the Open University, [address removed]

The John Player League Kent v Leicestershire
Kent, League champions for the past two seasons, begin the defence of their title this afternoon against Leicestershire, captained for the sixth successive season by RAY ILLINGWORTH.
During the tea interval at 4.10*: Talking Cricket
BBC cameras were at the Lord's Taverners' Christmas lunch and today we join cricket lovers from the world of entertainment and the arts in listening to ROBIN DAY propose the toast ' Cricket.'
FRANK BOUGH introduces the programme which includes news of today's other fixtures.
Commentators at the Mote, Maidstone, JOHN ARLOTT and JIM LAKER
Television presentation
ALAN MOUNCER. RICHARD TILLING 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 Richard Whitmore
Editor BILL NORTUWOOD

White Man in a Hole 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.
Narrator Duncan Carse
Producer BOB SAUNDERS
Series edited by ANTHONY ISAACS and CHRISTOPHER PARSONS

A series of programmes featuring the best in big band music. This week: Woody Herman and his Orchestra
BILL BYRNE , TONY KLATKA BILL POWERS, DAVID STAHL BILL STAPLETON (trumpets) HAROLD GARRETT
STEVE KOHLBACHER
JAMES PUGH (trombones)
WOODY HERMAN , GARY ANDERSON GREG HERBERT , FRANK TIBERI
JAN KONOPASEK (saxophones) ANDREW LAVERNE (piano) CHARLES JACKSON (bass) RONALD DAVIS (drums)
Sound CHRIS HOLCOMBE , JOHN TIMPERLEY Lighting TOMMY THOMAS
Producer STANLEY DORFMAN

Do not be put off by the title La Petite Messe Solennelle, as there is nothing at all ' solemn' about Rossini's Mass.
It is positively bursting with melodies. The work needs unusual forces : four soloists, a ' chorus ' of eight, two pianos and a harmonium. Rossini himself wrote: ' My Lord, forgive me this arrangement. I was really born for comic opera as you well know.' Kari Lovass (soprano)
Brigitte Fassbaendcr (contralto) Peter Schreier (tenor)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Die Munchener Vokalsolisten
Reinhard Raffalt (harmonium) Hans Ludwig Hirsch
Wolfgang Sawallisch
(conductor and solo piano)
Recorded in the Baumburg Monastery Chapel A BR/ZDF production

by COLIN MORRIS with A tenant on the Carnforth estate gets drunk, boasts that he killed his wife and has committed the perfect murder.
Created by COLIN MORRIS , DIANE CAMPBELL Designer ALLAN ANSON Producer COLIN MORRIS
Director CHRISTOPHER BARRY

Weather

starring
Dr Pierce and Mr Hyde