Today's Watch with Mother
Pippin and Tog hear the story of the boy carpenter.
9.38 Maths Today: Year 1: Thinking Clearly
10.0 Music Time
A series for 8-year-olds
with children from Lady Margaret School, Southall
10.25 Gweld a Siarad: Cyfrinach Plas Mawr: 1
Stori gan JOHN TULLY
Cynhyrchydd WYNNE lloyd
(I Ysgolion Cymru: Seeing and Speaking)
Welsh League of Youth Eisteddfod
Today's Watch with Mother
direct from Epsom
Introduced by Frank Bough
The world's most famous flat racing classic, brought to you as it happens by BBC outside broadcast cameras
The traditional Derby Day scenes on Epsom Downs. Latest news of the runners and riders. Action film of today's most fancied horses. Expert comment from some of the Derby's best-known names, including Sir Gordon Richards, Geoff Lewis, and Alec Marsh, the senior Jockey Club starter, who this afternoon will be officiating at his 100th Classic race
followed by
The Paddock Scene
The 1972 Derby Field in Close-up
The Parade
The jockeys parade their mounts in front of the Royal Box before going down to the start.
Run over a mile and a half of the Epsom course and worth more than £62,000 to the winner.
(How to turn a floppy foal into a hot tip: page 12)
A programme for children under 5
by Mary Dawson
with Glyn Houston
A cartoon series about two cheeky mice, Pixie and Dixie, and their ever-present foe, Jinks the cat.
(Colour)
Presented by John Craven
Old planes still fly and railway locomotives still steam, but our canals decay and old breeds of farm animals become extinct. John Craven discusses with children the problems of keeping the past alive.
(from Bristol)
News and opinions from the country at large and, in particular, Your Region Tonight
(including Regional Weather) presented by Michael Barratt and Bob Wellings
by John Gould
[Starring] Paul Daneman, Julian Glover
A new story in six episodes
Starhemburg is 'coming over.' But he knows too much...
(Episode 2 tomorrow at 7.0 pm; for cast see page 41)
(Radio Times People: page 4)
From the Captain's log - some earlier adventures of the Star-Ship Enterprise on its mission - to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and civilisations, to go boldly where no man has gone before.
This week: The Deadly Years
The inevitable toll of time, made tolerable only by the passage of years, is abruptly brought to the USS Enterprise within hours in the form of a horrible infection. Captain Kirk was not in the habit of repeating his orders, but that was before his dotage and the disgrace of losing his command.
by Eric Paice
Starring Marius Goring
with Ann Morrish
and Victor Winding, Michael Farnsworth, Valerie Murray
The body of a university student is found in a pig-fattening shed. Hardy has the very unpleasant task of establishing cause of death.
presented this week by Kenneth Kendall
Weather
The European Light-Heavyweight Championship
Chris Finnegan, the British and European Champion, defends his European title against Jan Lubbers (Holland) at the Royal Albert Hall
Highlights of The 1972 Derby
The season's premier classic run over li miles at Epsom
In this weekly magazine, Kenneth Allsop helped by Anthony Smith and Gillian Reynolds looks at some of the things which affect all of us all of the time.
The delight and fascination of steam lives on in the Midlands where enthusiasts run their own railway from Bridgnorth to Hampton Loade. It's a strange love affair with steam, soot and smoke.
(from Birmingham)
(Colour)
