16 May 1973

Wednesday

1973-05-16

Events

 * Royal Mail issues a set of commemorative stamps celebrating 100 Years of County Cricket, 1873–1973.

TV

 * BBC One
 * 7.05 pm Tomorrow's World Raymond Baxter visits the capital of the world's largest but least-known nation, the People's Republic of China, as British businessmen display their latest technology to the Chinese at the biggest western Trade Fair ever staged in Peking.
 * 9.25 pm The Caucasian Chalk Circle By Bertolt Brecht Translated By Eric Bentley A Play of the Month presentation.


 * BBC Two
 * 9.00 pm Midweek Cinema: The Appointment (1969) - directed by Sidney Lumet