Musical variety including:
Sitar: Iqbal Awan
Fisherman's Dance: Sahira Shahjehan, Nazir Ahmed (Pia Dance Ensemble)
and a comedy act by Khalid Abbas Dar
Produced and presented by Saleem Shahed
(from Birmingham)

Leonard Pearcey visits the Deptford Festival and discusses its significance with Fr David Diamond, The Bishop of Southwark, The Bishop of Woolwich and the people of Deptford

Comedy highlights from the career of two of the film world's most popular laughter-makers starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
with Lon Chaney, Marjorie Main, Tom Ewell, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Thurston Hall, Nat Pendleton
Commentary by Gene Wood

Today's events direct from Munich on the first day of Olympic competition.
Today's timetable of events:

Rowing: 1.5, 4.50
The world's best oarsmen in action over the new Olympic Regatta course in Munich.

Boxing: 1.35, 5.15
The first day of two weeks' intense competition for boxing medals, which has attracted the biggest entry in the history of the Olympic boxing tournament.

Diving: 2.30
Opening stages of the Women's Springboard Championship.

Basketball: 3.15
Highlights from today's outstanding match.

Hockey: 3.40: India v Holland
The second half of today's top match between two of the world's leading sides.

Gymnastics: 4.25, 6.15: Men's Team Championship, Women's Team Championship

and News... Action... Highlights from all today's events
Introduced by Frank Bough

(Timings are subject to alteration in order to keep up to date with events)

Highlights from this year's international show featuring:

From Great Britain: Charlie Cairoli and Company
Mischief, laughter and slapstick

From Germany: The Flying Leotaris
Split-second timing on the flying trapeze

From Denmark: The Hermanis
Exciting and skilful diabolo players

From Germany: Rogana
One of the most sensational balancing acts in circus history

From Great Britain: David Rosaire and his Perky Pekes
Not forgetting the odd dog out

From Hungary: The Great Halassy
The outstanding troupe of springboard acrobats in the world today

Introduced by Norman Barrett with interruptions from Desmond and Marks

(from Manchester)
(Colour)

Starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin
with Anne Francis, Dean Jagger

Spencer Tracy plays the one-armed stranger who gets off the express train at the little Western town of Black Rock - the first passenger for four years to do so. Tracy's purpose is to trace a man whose son saved his life in the war, but all he encounters is open hostility - and a wall of silence...
(This Week's Films: page 19)

with Robert Dougall
and Weather

This week's visit to the Royal Albert Hall for the 1972 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
Stanford Robinson conducts highlights from Gilbert and Sullivan operettas Iolanthe,
The Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore
with Patricia Reakes (soprano), Patricia Kern (mezzo-soprano), Heather Begg (contralto), Alexander Young (tenor), Derek Hammond-Stroud (baritone), Donald Adams (bass)
BBC Concert Orchestra
leader Arthur Leavins
BBC Choral Society
Introduced by Richard Baker

(Part of last night's concert)
(Last Night of the Proms: 16 September)

Direct from Munich, tonight's big events and highlights of the first day:

Boxing
The pick of tonight's contests in the first round of the biggest-ever Olympic boxing tournament.

Gymnastics: Men's Team Championship

Modern Pentathlon
The riding section of this gruelling event: competitors include British champion Jim Fox

Diving
The second round of the Women's Springboard Championship.

Weightlifting Final: The flyweight Championship
The first gold medal of the 1972 Olympic competition in Munich

Introduced by Frank Bough
and featuring Ian Wooldridge with The Personality of the Day
(Event-by-event guide to this week's finals: pages 15-17)

12.30* am Weatherman: Closedown

(Colour)