Frank Bough introduces the Saturday sports spectacular featuring the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes among today's top races from Ascot; Centenary Swimming Gala in which Otter SC compete against leading clubs from Holland, Belgium. France, West Germany, and Scotland; Rugby League from Workington; and highlights of the international hockey match, England v Pakistan
12.55* Football Preview
Introduced by Sam Leitch
1.15* International Hockey: England v Pakistan
Highlights of the match at Edgbaston in which England met the reigning Olympic Champions
1.50, 2.20, 3.25, 4.30* Racing from Ascot
2.0 Red Deer Stakes Handicap (1 1/2 miles)
2.30 Blue Seal Stakes (6 furlongs)
3.35 Queen. Elizabeth II Stakes (1 mile)
4.35 Diadem Stakes (6 furlongs)
2.5, 2.35, 4.45* Swimming: Otter SC Centenary Gala
incorporating the Final of the English Water-Polo Championship
3.0, 3.45* Rugby League: Workington v St Helens
4.55* Results Service
Classified results and news
Times are subject to alteration
A derelict spaceship from another age drifts aimlessly across the path of the USS Enterprise, bearing the survivors of a past civilisation. Only after boarding does Captain Kirk realise why his challenge goes unanswered, but it is taken up with a vengeance when the peculiar passengers come under his command
introduces his guests
by Gerald Kelsey
Starring Jack Warner
They say that one good turn deserves another, but when the Dock Green Police volunteered as blood donors they had no idea as to the possible outcome
(Peter Byrne is appearing in "There's a Girl in my Soup" at the Comedy Theatre, London)
An excerpt from the 1969 Show at Great Yarmouth
with Bailey Fossett's Liberty Ponies presented by Christine Pinder, The Hermanis, The Four Bertis, The Two Szenassy, Krenzola Ottilia, The Five De-Tos, Don Saunders, The Sheila Pugh Show Girls
Don Saunders, mime and musical clown, makes a welcome guest appearance in this second excerpt from the Hippodrome Circus - where he made his debut in the ring 15 years ago. Since his last appearance in Yarmouth in 1966 Don has been touring South Africa and the Continent
Programme introduced by Peter West
(from BBC Midlands)
[Starring] Clark Gable
The films of three great screen actors - Tyrone Power, Spencer Tracy, and, here Clark Gable with Barbara Stanwyck and Adolphe Menjou
Gable in a meaty role as a tough racing driver who finds himself at odds with a woman columnist when she launches a campaign against his daredevil tactics on the track
Reader Kenneth Kendall and Weather
David Coleman presents soccer action, personality interviews, and the latest from the football news desk. BBC outside broadcast cameras go to one of the Football League's leading clubs for the Match of the Day.
Also highlights of a second Football League match involving a prominent club in the South-East
Today's matches will be announced at the end of Grandstand
George Axelrod at the NFT talking to Leslie Hardcastle and members of the National Film Theatre, at a John Player Lecture, about his career as a screen writer, producer, director and introducing scenes from
Bus Stop (1956)
'When I first went to Hollywood writers were regarded as the lowest form of human life...'
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
'I wrote it originally for Marilyn Monroe as I wrote everything in those days...'
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
'One of the few films that went from failure to classic without ever passing through success'
Lord Luv a Duck (1965)
'It's a picture about the teenage soul: I made it to get my own back on my kids...'
The Secret Life of an American Wife (1968)
'In order to spend three million dollars of somebody's money it requires a certain arrogance - simple and unaffected arrogance...'