An invitation to speak French

A 25-part course in Italian

(Colour)

Jack Scott: weekend weather

On 13 December, St Lucia's Day, the children carry out an ancient tradition.
Story told by Colin Jeavons
Book 95p: see page 66

Introduced by Frank Bough

12.40* Football Preview
Sam Leitch introduces action, personalities and the latest news of today's key matches.

1.5* World Ice Hockey Championships from Moscow: Russia v Czechoslovakia
The world's two top countries meeting for the second time in a match which should decide the 1973 champions.

1.20; 1.50; 2.20; 4.30*
Badminton Horse Trials
Outside Broadcast cameras cover the cross-country section of this famous equestrian Three-Day Event.
Among the world's leading riders taking part are HRH Princess Anne, the reigning European champion; Richard Meade, the reigning Olympic champion; and all the riders who won the team gold medal in Munich.

1.35; 2.5; 2.35*
Racing from Newbury
1.45 Wills Embassy Stakes (Qualifier) (5 furlongs)
2.15 Clerical, Medical Greenham Stakes (7 furlongs)
2.45 Robert Herring Newbury Spring Cup (Handicap) (1 mile)

2.55*
International Rugby Union: Ireland v France
from Lansdowne Road, Dublin
The whole of today's final and deciding match of the 1972-1973 International Championship. Victory for France would give them the title; an Irish win would result in a five-country tie.

5.0*
Rugby League Cup Semi-Final: Castleford v Featherstone Rovers
from Headingley
Highlights of this afternoon's match to decide the second team to go through to the final at Wembley on 12 May.

4.45* Final Score
Including classified football results, rugby and racing results.

Timetable:
12.40 Football Preview; 1.5 Ice Hockey
1.20 Horse Trials: 1.35 Racing
1.50 Horse Trials; 2.5 Racing
2.20 Horse Trials; 2.35 Racing
2.55 Rugby Union: Ireland v France
4.30 Horse Trials: 4.45 Final Score
5.0 Rugby League Cup Semi-Final

Television presentation:
Ice Hockey Soviet Television
Rugby Union Irish Television

(The girl who is spurred on by her family: see page 12)
(Colour)

Weatherman Jack Scott
Today's Sport

Tom and Jerry playing cat and mouse

Starring Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar
with Herbert Marshall

Tony Curtis romps through this Hollywood excursion into English history displaying great athletic prowess in combat - armed and unarmed.

Starring Petula Clark who this week takes a look at the music of American hit composer Burt Bacharach.
with special guests Anita Harris, Marian Montgomery and Barbara Windsor
Peter Knight and the Orchestra
The Mike Sammes Singers

Written by John Warren and John Singer
A new comedy series starring Dick Emery
featuring Gordon Clyde as the Interviewer, Pat Coombs, Anne Cunningham, Harold Goodwin, Victor Maddern, Garfield Morgan, Jimmy Thompson

(Colour)

A new film series starring starring Raymond Burr as Robert Ironside
with Don Galloway as Det-Sgt Brown, Don Mitchell as Mark Sanger, Elizabeth Baur as Officer Fran Belding
with guest stars Nico Minardos, Anne Francis, Johnny Seven

Angela Griffin, an attractive young woman, calls Ironside to ask where her husband is. Ken Griffin left home the night before expressly to visit Ironside and has not been seen since - or has he?

with Peter Woods; Weather

A selection from one of the funniest television comedy series of all time.
Starring Phil Silvers as Sgt Ernie Bilko

Hiding a racehorse on an army camp can present a few problems. For one thing, hay is hard to come by. But with a surefire bet at stake Bilko will stop at nothing.
People: page 4