Story:
A Surprise for The Kingwritten by MIKE ROSEN and ANNE REAY Presenters:
CAROL CHELL , FRED HARRIS

England v Australia from The Oval
Live coverage through to the close of play

with Alan Watson
The extended Thursday edition of Newsday includes the day's News Summary and a longer look at one of the vital issues of the week with the people concerned. Preceded by Weather
Associate producer JOHN REYNOLD * Producer CHRISTOPHER CAPRON

A series in seven parts
The Wreckers and the Vicar
' There's this incredible feeling that people get when there's a salvage on, when there's a wreck ... The wreck's the thing.'
The story of the wreckers of North Cornwall and the man who opposed them: poet, priest and eccentric Stephen Hawker.
Film editor NICK BARNARD Director ANDREW GOSLING

Games with Love and Death
Five stories from the writings of ARTHUR SCHNITZLER
Dramatised by ROBERT MULLER Story 4
The Gift of Life

England v Australia
RICHIE BENAUD introduces highlights of the first day's play in this final Test Match.
Producer DAVID KENNING

with Percy Thrower at Clacks Farm
In the vegetable garden, PERCY THROWER and ARTHUR BILLITT prepare for harvesting and attend to the earlier sown crops.
Producer BARRIE EDGAR (Birmingham)
Percv Thrower's Guide to Gardeners' World 50p, from bookshops

The Pendon Museum at Long Wittenham, Berkshire
Here there will eventually be a miniature layout of the Vale of the White Horse as it looked about 1930 - one of the country's most ambitious modelling projects. Introduced by ANDY PRICE
Producer PAUL SMITH (Bristol)

Presented by Angela Rippon Weather

ROBERT GLADWELL reads
Serenade: Any Man to Any Woman by EDITH SITWELL