Graham Parker

Frank Bough introduces the Saturday sports spectacular featuring Finals day in the European Athletics Championships from Athens, plus the climax of the Ryder Cup contest and the Rugby League Yorkshire Cup Final. Also in Grandstand: top races from Kempton and Ayr

1.20, 2.40, 4.15* European Athletics Championships
Today's Finals in Athens include:
Women's 100m Hurdles; Women's 1500m; Men's 200m; Men's 110m Hurdles; 3,000m; Steeplechase Women's 4 x 100m

11.35. 1.20, 3.20, 4.15* Ryder Cup Golf
Britain's leading professional golfers take on America's top men in the vital singles matches on the final day of the 1969 Ryder Cup at Royal Birkdale, Southport

2.5, 3.5* Racing from Kempton Park
2.15 Duke of York's Stakes (over 1 mile)
3.15 Imperial Stakes (over 6 furlongs)

2.25* Racing from Ayr
2.35 Long John Scotch Whisky Handicap (over 1 1/4 miles)

2.40, 3.30* Rugby League: The Yorkshire Cup Final: Featherstone v Hull
at Headingley

1.0* Football Preview
featuring personalities and action in the news

4.55* Results Service
Classified football results and all the sports news
Times are subject to alteration in order to keep up to date with events. Latest football scores, racing results, and news are given throughout the afternoon

The crew of USS Enterprise think they are in wonderland when, after a long period of stress, they take a well-earned rest on a beautiful planet.
Though it's a surprise, there is no cause for alarm when they see a giant white rabbit; but a ferocious sword-wielding Samurai warrior is a very different kettle of fish (to mix a metaphor), and soon their pleasure gives way to terror...

Further coverage of Finals Day in the Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens, including: Men's 1500m

by N.J. Crisp
Starring Jack Warner

No one likes to be involved in a quarrel between husband and wife, least of all the police, but this one led to tragedy and a baffling problem for the CID

(Peter Byrne is appearing in "There's a Girl in my Soup" at the Comedy Theatre, London)

at Berns Restaurant, Stockholm
For Bassey fans this is the definitive show. Three-quarters-of-an-hour dedicated exclusively to the talents of Britain's most exciting girl singer.
In the vast, century-old Berns Restaurant in Stockholm, Shirley 'turned on' the audience of 2,000 reckoned to be among the most discriminating in Europe.
With songs like "I (who have nothing)," "Goldfinger," "Big Spender," and "Funny Girl," this is Shirley Bassey reaching a new high level of talent.
Bassey is one of the great cabaret performers with an ability to project herself across the stage and into the souls of her audience.
A joint BBCtv/SR production

Tonight's selection in a season featuring the films of three great screen actors - Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, and, here, Spencer Tracy with Sylvia Sydney and Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis, Walter Brennan

Tracy gives one of his most moving performances in this powerful drama about a young man, wrongly accused of kidnapping, who is threatened by an angry lynch mob - a threat for which he extorts a cruel revenge
Fury was the first American film directed by Fritz Lang after he had left Germany. Although Goebbels offered Lang control of the German film industry, he hated the Nazis and expressed a lot of his venom in this angry indictment of mob hysteria

Reader Richard Baker
and Weather

After six weeks of intensive soccer action BBC outside broadcast cameras catch the play at a League ground where championship ambitions are already being discussed

Also highlights of a second Football League match involving a prominent club in the South East

(Today's matches are announced at the end of Grandstand)
Four footballers: pages 10-11

David Coleman, Ron Pickering and Norris McWhirter report on tonight's big events in the Karaiskakis Stadium, Athens, including:
Men's 4 x 100 m Relay
Men's 4 x 400 m Relay
Women's 4 x 400 m Relay

Robert Ryan at the NFT talking to Peter Davalle and members of the National Film Theatre about his 30 years in films

"Actors are people who never grow up... children seem to have a natural aptitude for acting and pretending and that's all we really do..."
"I have been in films pretty well everything I'm dedicated to fighting against..."
and introducing scenes from Crossfire (1947), The Set-Up (1949), Billy Budd (1962), The Professionals (1966)

at the Dome, Brighton: highlights of the last day's debates