7.40 San Francisco Railway: 2

8.5 Looking at Cells

8.30 M101/27 Group Theory

8.55 Handicapped in the Community

9.20 Car Bodies

9.45 Maths: Wave Equation

10.10 Partial Differential Equations

10.35 The Labour Market

11.0 Curriculum Design and Development

11.25 The Explosives Industry

11.50 Discourse Analysis

12.15 Production Systems

12.40 Lyell on Etna

1.5 City of Coventry

1.30 People and Organisations

The John Player League featuring
Lancashire v Hampshire
The award of £ 200 for hitting the most sixes went last season to Hampshire star Gordon Greenidge. He cleared the boundary line 20 times, five coming in one single innings on the last day of last season. As a result Hampshire, by the narrowest of margins, went on to become League Champions.
PETER WALKER introduces the programme, which includes news of today's other fixtures.
DERBYSHIRE V WORCESTERSHIRE
GLOUCESTERSHIRE V SURREY
LEICESTERSHIRE V ESSEX MIDDLESEX V SOMERSET
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE V NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
SUSSEX V YORKSHIRE
Commentators at Old Trafford: JOHN ARLOTT and JIM LAKER
Television presentation
JIM RESIDE and JOHN MCNICHOLAS Series producer BOB DUNCAN

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 Peter Woods
Editor RICHARD GAMBLE

A new series of the musical quiz in which Joseph Cooper as questionmaster invites you to match your musical wits against Annette Page , Richard Baker Robin Ray
Guest musician Murray Perahia
Designer PAMELA LAMBOOY Sound LANCE ANDREWS
Lighting GERRY MILLERSON Producer WALTER TODDS Director HELEN MORTON

Weather

Opening Concert
BBC2 joins with Radio 3 to relay live in stereo the whole of tonight's opening concert from the 33rd Edinburgh Festival.
Two colourful ballet scores inspired by Diaghilev, who died 50 years ago today, are played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader BELA DEKANY under its principal conductor
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
The programme is introduced by TOM FLEMING
In Part 1, a rare complete performance of Chout (' Buffoon ') by Prokofiev including narration spoken by Andrew Cruickshank

I am the vessel through which ' Le Sacre' passed
During the concert interval, Ronald Harwood traces the background to Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring, being played in the second half. Stravinsky's own account of how it came to be written, and of its riotous premiere, is portrayed by Cyril Shaps.
Written and produced by RODNEY GREENBERG

BBC2 rejoins Radio 3 in stereo for Part 2 of tonight's concert. The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky, one of the most influential musical works of the 20th century.
Sound RON ALLAN , NEVILLE TURNER Lighting BOB hood
Directed by peter BUTLER
For the best effect viewers with stereo Radio 3 should turn off Tv sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative
(Riccardo Muti conducts the Philharmnnia Orchestra at the Edinburgh International Festival: this concert will be shown on 2 September on BBC1)

The last documentary in this series involving men of different nations who rose to the challenge of high command.
Douglas MacArthur
General of the Army. USA
This film studies one of the most flamboyant and individualistic of World War II commanders, whose character and judgment deteriorated as he reached the highest point of his fame and influence.
One of the greatest captains of history, a military genius betrayed by his own government? Or an old-fashioned romantic dangerously at large in a nuclear world? About to win final victory over the Communists in Korea when Truman sacked him in 1951. Mac Arthur 's story is one of greatness marred by tragic flaws of character. Those taking part:
General Carlos P. Romulo
The Rt Hon Arthur A. Calwell The Hon Sir Edmund Herrins
Rear-Admiral John D. Bulkeley Roger 0. Egeberg. MD
Major Gaetano Faillace Admiral of the Fleet
The Earl Mountbatten of Burma Lieut-Gen Edward M. Almond Col Laurence Eliot Bunker
Written by CORRELLI BARNETT Narrated by FRANK GILLARD
Quotations spoken by DON FELLOWS
Directed by MAURICE KANARECK Producer HARRY HASTINGS

The feature film starring Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon

Jeff Costello kills people - for money. As a hired assassin he is considered the best, until one contract misfires and he is seen by a hat-check girl in a night club. From then on his 'employers' want him dead, and Jeff learns what it is like to be hunted, not the hunter.
This classic thriller by veteran French director Jean-Pierre Melville is being shown for the first time in its original length, in an English-language version.