(Colour)
The 1972 Open Championship
from Muirfield Golf Club, East Lothian
This great championship course which has already been the stage for so many major golfing occasions, including 11 Open Championships, 7 Amateur Championships, a Walker Cup and a Curtis Cup, is in 1972 a wonderfully atmospheric setting. On the third day of the Open the great names of modern world golf contest one of the world's major titles in a location steeped in the historical beginnings of the game. Latest news and action at Muirfield is introduced by Harry Carpenter
The Third Test: England v Australia
Second day: coverage of the morning's play from Trent Bridge.
Introduced by Peter West
(Radio Times Olympic Summer of Sport available from newsagents: 25p)
Who will be the Democrats' Vice-Presidential candidate? What sort of appeal will the Democratic challengers make?
Michael Charlton and Julian Pettifer report on the final stages of the Democratic Convention including the acceptance speeches of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates.
(Presented in association with EBU and the US Networks)
Introduced by Frank Bough
featuring
Cricket: 3rd Test, Open Golf, Show Jumping
The Third Test: England v Australia
This afternoon's play direct from Trent Bridge
The 1972 Open Championship from Muirfield Golf Club
The world's leading players compete for record prize money of £50,000 in the third round of the 1972 Open.
Show Jumping from Hickstead: The Wills Parcours de Chasse
Today's speed competition makes full use of the banks and ditches unique to Hickstead.
(Colour)
with John Stride
Today: Ivan's War-Horse
Written and directed by Jenny Nimmo
Davy's feelings for the daughter of a retired general lead Mickey into a most unusual situation.
A comedy series in three parts
starring Johnny Ball, Julie Stevens, Derek Griffiths
Tudor Comings and Goings ...in which, among other things, Good Queen Bess mends her favourite glove and the trio are put in the stocks with... fruitful results!
and Weather
Starring Mike Yarwood
with Adrienne Posta
and guest star Peter Noone
with Frank Abbott
Introduced by Frank Bough
AAA Championships; ASA Championships: The Road to Munich
AAA Championships from Crystal Palace
featuring The 5,000 Metres Final
Commonwealth Games Champion Ian Stewart heads a very strong field in tonight's major athletics event, which will decide who represents Great Britain in next month's Olympic Games in Munich.
(Organised by the AAA with the Nationwide Building Society)
The Road to Munich: ASA Championships from Crystal Palace
Britain's Olympic prospects swimming tonight for national titles and a place in the Great Britain squad for Munich.
(Organised by the ASA with Optrex)
(Radio Times Olympic Summer of Sport available from newsagents: 25p)
with Richard Baker and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world
Weather
by Robert Holles
Rupert Davies as Baker looking in on a world of mystery and suspense
starring Sylvia Coleridge
The village children thought Mrs Bly a witch; their elders regarded her as an unbalanced eccentric. But some sensed there was a dark secret in her life...
(Colour)
starring Dave Allen
with Jacqueline Clarke, Ronnie Brody, Michael Sharvell-Martin, Peter Hawkins and Simon Barnes
(First shown on BBC2)
(Colour)
with Kenneth Allsop, Cliff Michelmore, Ludovic Kennedy and David Dimbleby
Four of the main presenters return for a personal 'look back' on seven years and 1,695 editions of this daily programme
at Cap d'Antibes
Iain Johnstone talks to the novelist about his career, illustrated with scenes from the films of his books: The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, and the movie written for Jackie Stewart The Way to Dusty Death.
(Another six MacLean films: page 10)
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