A regular feature serving gardeners in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England.
Lessons and warnings from a bad season for aphis and garden diseases
Percy Thrower and Dr. Joe Stubbs Plant pathologist survey fruit problems in the Gardening Club Garden Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Peach, apple, raspberry, blackcurrant, gooseberry, and strawberry
from the Midlands
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Today's Timetable
12.55 Fight of the Week
1.15 Football Preview
1.20 International Athletics
1.45 Six-Day Cycle Race
2.5 Racing
2.20 International Athletics
2.40 Racing
2.55 Show Jumping
3.15 Racing
3.30 International Athletics
3.45 Rugby League
4.25 International Athletics
4.55 Results Service
These timings may be altered by events
From 12.45
Grandstand
Introduced by Frank Bough.
featuring International Athletics... Racing... Rugby League... Show Jumping... Boxing... Cycling
International Athletics from the White City Stadium: Great Britain v. West Germany
The top athletes of Britain and West Germany compete in the last home international before Olympic year
Racing from Ayr
2.15 Craigmore Handicap Selling Stakes over 6 furlongs
2.50 Bogside Cup over 1 mile 5 furlongs
3.25 Long John Scotch Whisky Handicap over 1 mile 2 furlongs
Rugby League from Wakefield: Wakefield Trinity v. Featherstone Rovers
Show Jumping from Burghley: The Burghley Horse Trials
Today's show jumping competition decides the winner of this famous three day event
International Six-Day Cycle Race from Earls Court
Highlights of the final day's events in this cycling spectacular
Fight of the Week: Chartchai Chionoi v. Walter McGowan
An edited recording of the World Flyweight Championship fight in London
At 4.55 Results Service: Classified football results, Racing results, Rugby League and Rugby Union results
A new disc - a Hit or a Miss?
Comments and opinions on the latest pop releases.
This week's panel: Clement Freud, Kiki Dee, James Fox, Penny Valentine
In the chair, David Jacobs
Juke Box Jury moves to Wednesday: see page 37
The Saturday scene
Simon Dee introduces his guests Sandie Shaw, The Bee Gees, Duo Ofarim
The Alyn Ainsworth Orchestra
See page 3
Written and directed by Terence Young.
With Jack Warner, John MacCallum, Nadia Gray
The pursuit over the snow-covered wastes of Lapland in an attempt to intercept spies carrying stolen scientific equipment across the border.
Starring Rolf Harris
and Sue Avory, Sandra Burville, Ann Chapman, Joanna Cran, Jackie Dalton, Marlene Domanska, Dee Eldridge, Norma Froggat, Lesley Judd, Linda Lawrence, Cheryl St. Clair, Susan Temple, Maggie Vieler, Pauline Wall, Rae Wallace, Simon Ashford, Bobby Bannerman, Michael Brown, James Capehorn, Gordon Coster, Graham Danvers, Colin Doyle, Philip Gadd, Danny Grover, Roger Howlett, Tony Kemp, Scott MacKee, Joseph Saber, David Thornton, Donald Torr
Rolf's guests, Tony Cawley and Domenique
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including a report from the Liberal Party Assembly at Blackpool.
Followed by The Weather
A new film series of courtroom dramas starring E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed
When Lawrence Preston reluctantly agrees to run for Congress he becomes involved in a tough campaign and is accused of using racial prejudice to win.
A top League soccer match brought to you each Saturday.
Kenneth Wolstenholme reports, with outside broadcast cameras, from a well-known Football League ground.
Today's match will be announced after Grandstand
The decisive events and the most valuable prizes of the week are competed for as the world's top riders reach the climax of an exhausting week's competition.
Introduced by Frank Bough.
Commentary team, David Saunders, Benny Foster
from the Liberal Party Assembly in Blackpool.
Kenneth Harris and Ian Trethowan discuss the political ideas of the day with some of the people involved.
Out of Town Theatre presenting from Wales "Interview"
by Elwyn Jones
with John Phillips as Sir Howard Price, William Dexter as Humphrey Hawkins
and Geoffrey Hughes as William Williams
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