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Sports Service

on BBC Radio 3

Introduced by VINCENT DUGGLEBY
Produced by JOHN HASLAM and ANGUS MACKAY
Timings may be altered by events
12.30
Sports Parade
Including your afternoon's Weather and previews of the day's Racing and Football fixtures
1.0
Behind the Sporting Scenes
The Animal Health Trust Equine Research Station
If a racehorse breaks a leg, must it be destroyed? Research into problems of surgery, doping and the diseases which afflict horses is carried out at the Animal Health Trust's Equine Research Station at Newmarket
PETER BROMLEY reports on the work being done there
1.25
Cricket Around The World
No 4: Old Lords and Kinosmead, Durban
Compiled and narrated by MARTIN YOUNG with the voices of ALAN MELVILLE , HERBIE TAYLOR FRANK WOOLLEY , DUDLEY NOURSE NEIL HARVEY , ALEC BEDSER and JOHN ARLOTT
1.40; 2.30; 3.40; 4.50 Lawn Tennis:
The Dewar Cup
Commentaries by MAURICE EDELSTON on the final day of the first of a series of five weekly covered court tournaments, with summaries by FRED PERRY
From Bell's Sports Arena, Perth
2.5
London Powerboat
Race Preview
A look ahead to next Saturday's new one-and-a-half-hour race on the River Thames between Blackfriars and Westminster Bridges, sponsored by the Evening News and W. D. & H. O. Wills
2.15; 2.55; 4.5; 4.55
Racing from Newmarket Commentary by PETER BROMLEY and JULIAN WILSON , with summaries by ROGER MORTIMER. on the 2.20 Highflyer Stakes (Handicap), over six furlongs
3.0 The Cesarewitch Handicap over two miles and a quarter and the 4.10 Champion Stakes, over one mile and a quarter
4.55 Racing Results
3.10; 4.50
Rugby Union:
Harlequins v Coventry
Commentary during this afternoon's club match by PETER WEST and PETER YARRANTON. from Twickenham
3.50; 4.20
Association Football
Commentary by PETER JONES and JOHN CAMKIN on one of today's English League matches, followed by the day's resulto as they come in 5.0
Sports Report
Including classified Football results, reports on selected soccer matches, and further news of the rest of the afternoon's sport

Contributors

Introduced By:
Vincent Duggleby
Produced By:
John Haslam
Produced By:
Angus MacKay
Unknown:
Peter Bromley
Unknown:
Martin Young
Unknown:
Alan Melville
Unknown:
Herbie Taylor
Unknown:
Frank Woolley
Unknown:
Dudley Nourse
Unknown:
Neil Harvey
Unknown:
Alec Bedser
Unknown:
John Arlott
Unknown:
Maurice Edelston
Unknown:
Fred Perry
Commentary By:
Peter Bromley
Commentary By:
Julian Wilson
Unknown:
Roger Mortimer.
Unknown:
Peter West
Unknown:
Peter Yarranton.
Commentary By:
Peter Jones
Commentary By:
John Camkin

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