At breakfast in Britain it's midnight in Mexico... and the end of the twelfth day of the Olympic Games.
Direct by satellite from Mexico City comes today's first coverage of the latest Olympic action
including
Swimming
Max Robertson and Harry Walker report on the Men's 200 Metres Freestyle Final, Men's 200 Metres Butterfly Final, Ladies' 200 Metres Butterfly Final, Ladies' 800 Metres Freestyle Final
and Gymnastics... Football... Boxing
with, every fifteen minutes The Olympic Headlines
Introduced by Frank Bough with the BBC Olympic team of commentators
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News Headlines and Weather at 8.0 and 9.0
(to 9.00)

9.38 People of Many Lands: Irish Republic
(Shown on Monday)

10.0-10.20 Maths Today: Year 1: There and Back
Introduced by David Sturgess
(Repeated on Monday and Tuesday of next week)

11.5-11.25 Scene: The American Scene 1968
(Shown on Thursday)

11.35-11.55 Engineering: Craft and Science: Unit 1: Engineering Materials
(Shown on Wednesday)
Accompanying pamphlet: see page 11

in Westminster Abbey in the presence of members of the Royal Family
Service conducted by The Dean The Very Rev. Eric S. Abbott
Blessing given by Archbishop Athenagoras of Thyateira and Great Britain and The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Michael Ramsey
Scene described by Tom Fleming

on The Events, The Personalities, The Talking Points in the news in Mexico City
David Vine and the BBC Olympic commentary team bring you up to date with the latest Olympic competitions in Boxing... Football... Swimming... Gymnastics... Fencing

For the very young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children.

Bert Foord
(to 13.53)

(Shown on Tuesday)

Conversation with Saunders Lewis
(First shown on BBC Wales)
(Crystal Palace, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Wenvoe West)
(to 14.55)

by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Adapted and directed by Marilyn Fox
with Richard Monette

Introduced by Michael Aspel
with Peter Glaze, Rod McLennan, Christine Holmes, Jillian Comber
Guests, Status Quo, Johnny Hart

(Rod McLennan is appearing in "Sweet Charity" at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London; Christine Holmes is in "Charlie Girl" at the Adelphi Theatre, London, Bert Hayes is at Butlin's Hotels, Cliftonville)

with Robert Robinson
A weekly look at criticism and comments from younger viewers
Letters for inclusion in these programmes should be addressed to Junior Points of View, [address removed]

Bert Foord

A weekly programme by the young for the young in heart
Angela Huth
with Richard Neville, John Peel, Tony Palmer, Ronald Fletcher, The Spinners and guests

6.0-6.20 Local News and Weather
(Rowridge, Brighton, Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree, Cambridge)

News... Action... Personalities and the stories behind the headlines in Mexico City.
David Coleman and Frank Bough look at today's Olympic scene and preview some of the major events to come in this last weekend of the Games

Tales from the last frontier of the great American West.
A film series starring James Drury as The Virginian

In search of the man who murdered his girl-friend the Virginian joins an outlaw band posing as one of six recently escaped convicts, then learns that the gang is shortly expecting another of the escapees.

The first in a new series by Richard Waring
Starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner, Ronald Hines as Henry Corner
[with] Charlotte Mitchell as Mary

Jennifer and Henry are feeling the financial pinch even more painfully than usual, so Jennifer decides to take a temporary job. Things have changed, however, since she was last on the secretarial market. Happily, at this moment, a toy she has made for Amanda is much admired at school, and Jennifer conceives the notion of a cottage industry.
See colour feature on centre pages

A thriller in six parts
starring Gerald Harper, Conrad Phillips, David Burke
(First shown on BBC-2)

When once-famous athlete Bob Kerry is found dead on a golf course his son Jack refuses to accept the coroner's verdict of death by misadventure. As a detective-inspector on leave he is able to follow up his suspicions, and in the process he discovers the secrets of his father's private life-discoveries which guarantee six suspenseful episodes.

"...a new Francis Durbridge serial, 'A Game of Murder,' in which Mr. Durbridge, with his own virtuosity, cooked up a situation of endless potentialities and baffling mystifications. Like all his work, it will leave us no peace until we know the answer." (The Times)
"The question is not whether the story's suspense will keep taut, but whether we can be suspended for so many weeks without snapping." (Daily Sketch)

with Ronald Allison
and The Weather

by Robert Nathan
Dramatised by John Wiles
A new series of romance
Starring Paul Rogers as Max
with Eve Belton as Halys, Sean Caffrey as Jon and Doris Nolan as Mrs. Bloemendal

Set on the west coast of America, this is the story of a middle-aged artist. Max, who, with his pupil Jon meets a young waif, Halys, while picnicking on the shore. Max befriends her, and, in spite of opposition from his landlady, takes her into his home. However the disparity in their ages becomes an insurmountable problem.
See page 39

A Friday ticket to jive, judge, or just enjoy the new two-part inter-regional competition organised by Mecca Dancing
Peter West introduces
First Half of Home Counties North v. North-East England

Come Dancing begins a twenty-four-week season and though there are several exciting changes, regular followers need not fear that the programme has been changed out of all recognition. All the old favourites are included plus several interesting new ingredients such as a 'Song Spot' and a 'surprise' dance chosen by the spin of a roulette wheel
See page 33

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

In ten years at the top, he's interviewed most people... (well nearly)
But there are always new questions to ask... Always new faces to find... Always new places to go...
Tonight: The Very Rev. Lord MacLeod of Fuinary

in Westminster Abbey in the presence of members of the Royal Family
A shortened version of this morning's Service

brings you tonight's events in the Olympic Games direct by satellite from Mexico City featuring:
Swimming and Diving

and throughout the programme News... Comment... Personalities from all today's events

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