For the very young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children.
BBC film
(to 11.00)
from Headingley, Leeds.
See panel and page 27
Today's Timetable
1.50 Racing
2.10 Cricket
2.38 Athletics
2.55 Racing
3.15 Athletics
3.30 Racing
3.50 Athletics
4.5 Cricket
4.15 Athletics
4.37 Cricket
4.45 Athletics
4.58 Results service
These timings may be altered by events
Bank Holiday Grandstand at 1.30
Introduced by Harry Carpenter
featuring International Athletics ... Racing ... Cricket
International Athletics from the White City Stadium: The British Games
The first big meeting of Olympic Year brings together Britain's top athletes and competitors from overseas (Organised by the C.A.U. in conjunction with the "News of the World")
Racing from Doncaster
2.0 Stand Maiden Stakes (over 1 1/2 miles)
3.5 Joe Childs Apprentice Handicap Stakes (over 1 mile, 3 furlongs)
3.40 Zetland Handicap Stakes (over 1 mile
Cricket from Headingley, Leeds: Yorkshire v. Lancashire
Further play in the Roses match.
At 4.58 Results service: Racing results and Cricket scoreboard
by Philippa Pearce
with Judi Dench
Ben wanted a dog more than anything in the world - a Great Dane, or perhaps even an Irish Wolf-hound! But if, like Ben, you live in the middle of a big city, having a dog, even a very small dog, presents a great many problems.
Uncle Dimitri requires all his courage to face a crucial situation.
Peter Walker
Introduced by John Edmunds and featuring Kenneth Robinson.
followed by the Weather in the South-East
The Brook House, Liverpool v. The Bowling Green, Lincoln
The darts and general knowledge quiz from pubs all over Britain.
Question-Master, Keith Fordyce
From Liverpool
Starring Dick Emery
with Special guest stars, Josephine Blake and Avis Bunnage
Other artists appearing: Mark Singleton, Mike Lucas, Therese McMurray
by David Ellis
Starring James Ellis, John Slater
With Bernard Holley, John Wreford
With Inspector Todd on leave, and P.C. Kane away sick, Sgt. Stone has more than enough to do - and then just to complicate things, the A.C.C. decides to arrive at Newtown Station two weeks before time for his customary three-monthly inspection. On top of all this, £200 is missing from the safe in the cashier's office of Carter's Ltd., and Stone must investigate.
A star-packed pageant of comedy and cliff-hanging suspense from the golden age of film
with Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Pearl White, Harry Langdon, Ben Turpin, Charlie Chase, Snub Pollard, Mack Sennett, Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling, Boris Karloff, Warner Oland, Ruth Roland, Al St. John, The Keystone Cops, The Sennett Bathing Beauties and Cameo, The Wonder Dog.
with Robert Langley
followed by The Weather
The filmed story of the crucial struggle in May 1941 to destroy Hitler's mightiest battleship.
Starring Kenneth More as Captain Shepard
with Dana Wynter, Carl Mohner, Geoffrey Keen, Laurence Naismith, Michael Hordern, Maurice Denham
with Graeme Garden, Dilys Watling, Bill Oddie, Jonathan Lynn, Tony Buffery
and Ronald Fletcher
Special guests: Kenny Lynch, The Spinners
Filmic interludes by Mikael Palinski and Terence Jonesprod
(Dilys Watling is appearing in "Fiddler on the Roof" at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)
