by Professor George Porter
From The Royal Institution, London

Jack Scott: the weekend weather

Introduced by Frank Bough

12.50 Football Preview
Introduced by Sam Leitch

1.10* Fight of the Week: The Featherweight Championship of Scotland and final eliminator for the British Championship: Evan Armstrong (Ayr) v Jimmy Bell (Kilmarnock)
Highlights of this big fight at the World Sporting Club, London.

1.35* Speedway: The World Team Cup Championship
Highlights of British Speedway's biggest night of the year, when at the Empire Stadium, Wembley, Ivan Mauger, the triple world champion, led Great Britain's bid to regain the World Team Cup. Also taking part: teams from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden.

1.50; 2.20; 3.25; 4.30* Racing from Ascot
2.0 Red Deer Stakes (li 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* International Athletics from Leicester: Great Britain v West Germany
As well as this international match for athletes under 20 yrs, Kip Keino of Kenya will be running in a special 2,000m invitation race and there will also be an attempt on the women's 4 x 800m world record.
(Booking their tickets to Munich: page 9)

A new cartoon film series presenting the optimistic, indestructible panther who is permanently in-the-pink and The Inspector with unquenchable joie de vivre who hardly ever gets his man.
A triple helping - and more-of comic fantasy.
Today: Jet Pink; Pique Poquette of Paris; Tickled Pink

Presenting from Scotland international artists in a fast-moving musical entertainment of songs from America, Brazil, Ireland, England, and Scotland. Featuring this week:
The Pentangle, The Johnstons, Cliff Aungier and Gerry Lockran, Stella and Bambos and Hamish Imlach
BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra, leader Ian Tyre, conductor Iain Sutherland

Tonight's presentation in this season of feature films starring Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant, James Darren

Van Heflin gives a seasoned performance as a tough old-timer of the West, trying to bring up his two sons in his own image. But only one of the boys is wild and unruly like his father - and he becomes a professional gunfighter.
(This Week's Films: page 10)

Harry's guests tonight include Sacha Distel, Nina, Donald Houston, The Treorchy Male Choir
with Julian Orchard
[and] Lyn Ashley

The second in a series of the famous Aldwych Farces adapted for TV by Ben Travers
[Starring] Arthur Lowe and Richard Briers
with guest stars Barbara Shelley, Megs Jenkins, Frank Thornton
...and the dog is Peachy

(One man's misery is another's belly laugh: pages 54-56)

with Robert Dougall
and Weather

A new late-night entertainment from the North.
Melvyn Bragg looks at affairs from a Manchester viewpoint, a look which takes in sport... poetry... and people.
Among those taking part: Sarah Boston, Cate Haste, Mike Nally, Bill Tidy of The Cloggies
(from Manchester)

Robin Day and Alan Watson report on the fourth day of the Liberal Party Assembly and the speech of the Leader of the Party, Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe, MP