At breakfast in Britain it's midnight in Mexico - and the end of the ninth day of the Olympic Games.
Direct by satellite from Mexico City comes today's first coverage of the latest Olympic action
including Boxing, Swimming, Gymnastics
and, every fifteen minutes, The Olympic Headlines
Introduced by Frank Bough with the BBC Olympic team of commentators

News Headlines and Weather at 8.0 and 9.0
(to 9.00)

9.15 Middle School Physics: Electromagnetic Waves
(Shown on Monday)
(Repeated on Friday next week)

9.38 Primary School Mathematics: Flat Shapes
Introduced by Jim Boucher
(Repeated on Thursday)

10.0 Discovering Science: The Atmosphere
(Shown on Monday)

10.25-10.45 Twentieth-Century Focus: Marriage and Divorce: 3: Marriage Breakdown
(Shown on Monday)
(Repeated on Wednesday - not Scottish)
Accompanying pamphlet: see page 11

11.0 Watch!: The Zoo: Looking at Polar Bears
Introduced by Rosanne Harvey
(Repeated on Thursday)

11.18 Going to Work: Finding Out
(Shown on Monday)

11.40 Making Music
Introduced by Julian Smith
with children from Latchmere Junior School, Kingston, Surrey
(Repeated on Friday)

12.5-12.25 Mathematics in Action: Sampling Variables
Introduced by Stewart Gartside

David Vine and the BBC Olympic commentary team bring you up to date with the events, the personalities, the talking points in the news in Mexico City.

For the very young

George Luce
(to 13.53)

by Joy Thwaytes
Introduced by Tom Gibbs
With Veronica Purnell and Stephen Leigh
(Repeated on Wednesday)

A programme of light music
(First shown on BBC Wales)
(Crystal Palace, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Wenvoe West)
(to 14.50)

by Laura Ingalls Wilder
with Richard Monette
Today: Part 2: The Horse Buyer

A film series
Range Rider and his young friend, Dick West, fight for justice against the lawlessness of the early West

Introduced by Norman Tozer
A topical magazine programme with John Earle and Janet Kelly
From the South and West

The varied adventures of Hector the Dog and Zaza the Cat not forgetting next-door-neighbour Mrs. Kiki Frog.

George Luce

News, action, personalities and the stories behind the headlines from Mexico City.
David Coleman and Frank Bough look at today's Olympic scene and spotlight some of the competitors in action in tonight's events.

In which the people who watch the programmes confront the people who make them
Presented by Cliff Michelmore with the help of a statistically selected audience in the studio
See page 41

6.0-6.25 Local News and Weather
(Rowridge, Brighton, Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree, Cambridge)

by James Doran
Starring James Ellis, John Slater, John Woodvine
with Paul Angelis, Bernard Holley

A season of comedy films with the great laughter-makers
[Starring] Abbott and Costello
with Marilyn Maxwell, John Contie, Douglass Dumbrille

Two American comics stranded in the mystic east become involved in a crazy masquerade to rescue a girl from the clutches of the local sheikh. He has hypnotised the girl singer with their show, and plans to keep her captive until a marriage can take place. Johnson and Garvey, after being rescued from jail, break into the sheikh's palace, and Garvey has to disguise himself as one of the sheikh's plumper wives to gain entry to the harem...

with Richard Baker
followed by The Weather

A film by Peter Batty
"I'm down to my last £5 million" says Baron Egremont, owner of 20,000 acres in Sussex
"It's a very nice life" comments Colonel Cameron of Lochiel, twenty-sixth hereditary Chief of the Clan Cameron, and Britain's largest landowning commoner
Viscount Scarsdale's family, the Curzons, have lived at Kedleston in Derbyshire for more than 850 years
When the seventh Marquess of Anglesey inherited his title he also inherited a bill for £2 1/2 million death duties
In Blenheim Palace the tenth Duke of Marlborough has surely the stateliest stately-home in the land
Nina Caroline Ogilvy-Grant Studley-Herbert, twelfth Countess of Seafield, owns 200,000 Scottish acres - an area more than half the size of Greater London.
See page 42

A quick look at the news of the day and a longer look at what matters with Kenneth Allsop and Michael Barratt, Ian Trethowan, Robert McKenzie
with on-the-spot reports by Fyfe Robertson, Julian Pettifer, David Lomax, Philip Tibenham, Denis Tuohy, Linda Blandford

brings you tonight's events in the Olympic Games as they happen direct by satellite from Mexico City featuring Swimming and Gymnastics
Tonight's programme introduced by Frank Bough includes:
10.30 and 12.00 Gymnastics: Men's Individual and Team Compulsory Exercises

11.05 Swimming: Ladies' 100 Metres Backstroke (Heats), Men's 400 Metres Medley (Heats), Ladies' 200 Metres Breaststroke (Heats)
and throughout the programme - News... Comment... Personalities from all today's events
News Headlines at 11.00

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