Keith Best: weekend weather

A series of 12 programmes
Six weeks to the Olympic Games at Munich. Ron Pickering continues his series about the great field events.
With Tom McNab and John Crotty

Featuring the outstanding events on the greatest day of British sport this summer
Open Golf, AAA Championships, ASA Championships, Cricket: 3rd Test, British Grand Prix, Show Jumping

Introduced by Frank Bough

10.55: 1.35; 4.20*
The 1972 Open Championship from Muirfield
The climax of the world's greatest golf tournament, as leading players battle over the final 18 holes for record prize money of £50,000.

11.25: 2.10*
The Third Test: England v Australia: Third day
Today's play direct from Trent Bridge

2.40: 3.25: 5.15*
The Road to Munich: AAA Championships
All Britain's leading athletes will be competing for national titles and a place in the team for next month's Olympic Games, to be announced on Monday.
Among this afternoon's finals are the 10,000 metres, in which David Bedford will be out for a very fast time; the 400 metres hurdles, featuring David Hemery, the 1968 Olympic Gold Medallist; and the 1,500 metres with three of the fastest men in the world at this distance this year: Peter Stewart, Jim Douglas and Brendan Foster.
(Organised by the AAA in conjunction with the Nationwide Building Society)

2.25; 3.15; 4.0*
The British and European Grand Prix for the John Player Trophy from Brands Hatch
The world's leading Formula 1 drivers, including 1971 champion Jackie Stewart and Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil who heads the current championship table, compete in this year's British Grand Prix, which celebrates the 75th anniversary of the RAC.
(Organised by the RAC)
In the pits Barrie Gill
('We have no friends in racing now... just young rivals': cover story, pages 44-47)

5.15* The Road to Munich: ASA Championships from Crystal Palace
Britain's leading Olympic contenders swim for national titles and a place in the squad for Munich.
(Organised by the ASA in conjunction with Optrex)

5.15* International Show Jumping from Hickstead: The Wills Castella Stakes
Leading riders compete for a first prize of £150.

Grandstand Timetable:
10.55 Open Golf; 11.25 Cricket: 3rd Test
1.35 Open Golf; 2.10 Cricket: 3rd Test
2.25 British Grand Prix
2.40 AAA Championships
3.15 British Grand Prix
3.25 AAA Championships
4.0 British Grand Prix; 4.20 Open Golf
5.15 AAA and ASA Championships/International Show Jumping
Timings are subject to alteration.

(Radio Times Olympic Summer of Sport, available from newsagents: 25p)
(Colour)

Starring Forrest Tucker, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring
with Reginald Beckwith

Will East or West benefit from a German scientist's valuable formula for a new fuel?
(Films: p t)

with their guests Slade, The Dudley Moore Trio
and Segment

Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra

(For Lulu, singing is a love affair: pp 6-7. Dudley's Music: R4 Tues 8.35 am)
(Colour)

A new film series starring Raymond Burr as Robert Ironside,
with Don Galloway as Det-Sgt Brown, Barbara Anderson as Officer Eve Whitfield and Don Mitchell as Mark Sanger
with guest stars David Carradine, Michael Blodgett, Carla Borelli

Eve persuades Ironside, Ed and Mark to visit a way-out night club where one of her friends is the girl member of a folk trio. But although the girl had asked them to come urgently, she is not there. And the search for her soon becomes a murder hunt...

(Colour)

with John Edmunds
and Weather

Conversation, good music, and the occasional surprise with Michael Parkinson and his guests

(Colour)

What happens to the 1,500 people who live in a Lancashire mining village when 50,000 pop fans descend on them for the weekend? The underground workers met the Underground in Bickershaw, a pit stop on the road to Wigan pier.
The villagers struggled to keep their weekend routine. Saturday-night Bingo at the Colliery Club was accompanied by the voice of Family's Roger Chapman amplified from two fields away.
(BBC North West)