An invitation to speak French

A 25-part course in Italian

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A 12-part series for those who have been learning Welsh for some two years
Introduced by Mair Robbins and Bill Raybould
With Cennard Davies

Keith Best: weekend weather

Cartoon series

Climb aboard for a journey through time and space. Scheduled stops include:
Star Galaxy with Johnny Roberts and Beverley
"Vidar and the Ice Monster" with pictures by John Davis and Alex Forbes, and featuring the voices of Jennifer Hill, Nigel Pegram and James Warwick
Plus comedy, musical moments, and a surprise request stop.

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Introduced by Frank Bough
Timetable:
12.35 Football Preview
1.0 Grand National Preview
1.15 Ice Hockey from Canada
1.40 Rugby League Top Try
1.50 Racing from Newbury
2.10 International Boxing
2.25 Racing from Newbury
2.40 International Boxing
2.55 Rugby League
3.30 Racing from Newbury
3.50 Rugby League
4.35 Final Score
Timings are subject to alteration.

12.35* Football Preview
Sam Leitch introduces another edition of football's most popular lunchtime round-up, with news, personalities and action from this week's matches in Europe.

1.0* The 1973 Grand National
Julian Wilson previews next week's great occasion and talks to Mrs Mirabel Topham, the first lady of Aintree.

1.15* Ice Hockey from Canada: Toronto Maple Leafs v New York Rangers
Highlights of the week's National League match between two of the world's leading teams.

1.40* Rugby League Top Try Competition
The result and winner of the latest competition to find the outstanding tries scored on BBCtv.

1.50; 2.25; 3.30* Racing from Newbury
2.0 Alvescot Novices' Hurdle Div 1 (21 miles 120 yards)
2.30 Betterton Steeple Chase (3 miles)
3.35 The 'Greenham Group' Handicap Hurdle (2 miles)
The day's outstanding National Hunt event, with £5,000 added prize money.

2.10; 2.40* International Boxing: Johnnie Frankham (Reading) v Charlie Green (USA)
Highlights of this week's light-heavyweight contest at York Hall, Bethnal Green, and another outstanding fight from the same promotion.

2.55; 3.50* Rugby League from Huddersfield: Final of the John Player Competition Leeds v Salford for the No 6 Trophy
Outside broadcast cameras cover today's big Rugby League occasion.

4.35* Final Score
including news of today's Rugby Union International in Paris, France v Wales. (Reports in Rugby Special: 7.40 BBC2)

Television presentation:
Ice Hockey Canadian Broadcasting Corp
(Exclusive coverage of the Grand National on BBCtv and radio next Saturday, and in Radio Times a colour feature 'Lost by a whisker')

Sport

Tonight's adventure film stars Vincent Price
with Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster

The fantastic vision of Jules Verne is captured in this spectacular film set at the turn of the century.
Vincent Price plays Robur - a brilliant but mad inventor and captain of a gigantic flying machine. The Albatross. Armed with deadly weapons he plans to end all war by destroying the entire armed forces of the world.
(People: p 4. This Week's Films: p 9)

Starring Petula Clark and featuring her special guest Sacha Distel in a programme of songs composed by some of France's internationally successful songwriters
with Peter Knight and the Orchestra
The Mike Sammes Singers

Written by John Warren and John Singer
A new comedy series starring Dick Emery
with Pat Coombs, Gordon Clyde as the Interviewer, Anne Cunningham, Harold Goodwin, Geoffrey Lumsden, Victor Maddern, Bill Pertwee

A new film series starring Raymond Burr as Robert Ironside
with Don Galloway as Det-Sgt Brown, Don Mitchell as Mark Sanger and Elizabeth Baur as Officer Fran Belding
with guest stars Tim Matheson, Paul Koslo, Barry Higgins, Kathy Lloyd, Collin Willcox-Horn

The gifted but very unpopular leader of a string quartet is found murdered in his study. To find the killer Ironside follows a trail of baffling musical clues recorded on tape - and left by the victim himself.

with Richard Whitmore
Weather

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

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