Golf: The Open Championship 1973
Played over The Old Course, Troon, where 11 years ago this week that legendary figure of modern professional golf, Arnold Palmer, won his second consecutive British Open Championship. In so doing he established the record low winning aggregate score for the Championship: 276 (71, 69, 67, 69) which stands to this day.
The illustrious field of about 150 golfers includes the defending Champion Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Doug Sanders, Gary Player, Bob Charles, Britain's Tony Jacklin and Peter Oosterhuis, and the new US Open Champion Johnny Miller. Today they set out with Palmer on their quest for this year's title plus the £50,000 prize money; they will do well even to equal that score over a course regarded as one of the supreme tests of world golf.
It's a smile a stroke..: pages 6 and 7

Cricket: Gillette Cup: Second Round
live coverage of one of today's matches.
The Gillette Cup was the first limited-over competition and arouses great enthusiasm among players and spectators alike. All tickets for the final at Lord's in September were sold months ago.
Introduced by Peter West

Golf: The Open Championship 1973
The 102nd playing of the British Open Golf Championship starts today over The Old Course, Troon. Harry Carpenter introduces this afternoon's news and action.

Cricket: Gillette Cup
Second Round: further coverage of one of today's matches.

A programme for children under 5

by John Grant
with John Grant

(Colour)

Introduced by Ron Pickering and this week's guest Scottish international athlete and hockey player Anne Wilson.
The first semi-final in this sporting contest between schools with a variety of team events.
This week the teams are from Ullswater and Tynfield School, Penrith, Cumberland, and the winners of last week's heat Lenzie Academy, Kirkintilloch, Scotland.

with Kenneth Kendall; Weather

bringing you news and views in your region tonight
(including Regional Weather)
Presented by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough and Bob Wellings
(Regional details as Monday)

The award-winning Private Life of the Starling

The starling is the commonest and most successful bird in the world. Why is it so numerous? Is it the farmer's friend or foe? Why does it spray its feathers with formic acid? Why does it commute to big cities for the night? What is the purpose of its 'sunset spectacular' when three million birds give the most impressive exhibition of aerobatics that can be seen in the whole world of birds?
(from Bristol. a new series of Private Lives)

Can you still find solitude in Britain? Fyfe Robertson journeys back to his homeland and to a tiny island community. Two shops, a church, post office and one pub. Can he survive after years of the so-called sophistication of the South East?

with Kenneth Kendall and Peter Woods; Weather

(Colour)

with the London Symphony Orchestra
leader John Brown
Including Haydn's Trumpet Concerto, Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, and other items all with soloists from the orchestra.

(Colour)

P.J. Kavanagh follows the trail of a Derbyshire railway, visits a Stilton cheese factory, discovers the realities of quarrying and joins a well-dressing ceremony.
(from Birmingham)

Presented by Nicholas Harman

British observers back from the longest solar eclipse of the century tell Patrick Moore about the results of their experiments. These astronomers went to see totality from widely different viewpoints - Dr John Beckman from Concorde, Dr R. J. Speer from a rocket site in West Africa, Barrie Jones from the shore of Lake Rudolf, and observers from ships at sea and the Sahara desert.