National Eisteddfod report

Bert Foord: the weekend weather

A cartoon film series

Ernest sets out to attend a friend's wedding but meets with an unexpected hazard on the way.

Third day: coverage up to the lunch interval direct from Edgbaston

Introduced by Tony Gubba

2.50; 3.35* Cricket: Second Test: England v West Indies
Third day: coverage of the afternoon's play direct from Edgbaston

1.35; 2.35; 3.10* Racing from Haydock
1.45 A Challenge Match (1 1/2 miles)
Ian Balding, the leading trainer, faces The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire in the first Semi-Final of the series of Challenge Matches which is being covered in Grandstand.
2.0 A Challenge Match (1 1/2 miles) The second Semi-Final is between Chris Collins, the former amateur National Hunt champion jockey, and Bill Shand-Kydd, former champion point-to-point rider.
2.15 Television Viewers' Stakes (Handicap) (5 furlongs)
2.45 The Tote Roll-Up Stakes (Handicap) (6 furlongs)
3.20 Standish Stakes (7 furlongs and 40 yards)

3.25; 4.15* Rugby League from Wigan: The Wigan Sevens
This fast and spectacular curtain-raiser to the new season features eight of the top sides including Cup-holders Featherstone Rovers, League champions Dewsbury, Salford and Wigan.

2.20* International Athletics from Oslo: The European Cup
Highlights from the Men's Semi-Final meeting with competitors from six nations including Great Britain, USSR and Hungary. Next month's Final will be staged at Meadowbank, Edinburgh.

4.50* Final Score
Including cricket scoreboard and late racing results.

Timetable: 1.35 Racing
2.20 Athletics: 2.35 Racing
2.50 Cricket; 3.10 Racing
3.25 Rugby League; 3.35 Cricket
4.15 Rugby League: 4.50 Final Score
Timings are subject to alteration in order to keep up to date with events.

Television presentation: Athletics: Norwegian Television Service

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Today's Sport

(Colour)

by Jimmy Perry and David Croft
Starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
[with] John Laurie as Pte Frazer, James Beck as Pte Walker, Arnold Ridley as Pte Godfrey, Ian Lavender as Pte Pike

A bomb falls on the strongroom of Mainwaring's bank. He insists that the platoon count the money and guard it.
[Repeat]

Starring Ray Milland, Mary Murphy
with Ward Bond, Raymond Burr

After gunman Wesley Steele comes upon the wreckage and dead victims of a stage hold-up, he is obliged to kill a lawman in self-defence. While on the run he discovers who was responsible for the robbery and murder.
This Week's Films: page 9

Written by Eric Davidson
Starring Mike Yarwood
featuring Cheryl Kennedy
and special guest Peter Noone
With Victor Maddern

(Mike Yarwood is in 'Holiday Star-time' at the ABC Theatre, Blackpool)
She could go on singing: page 5

A 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 Don Stroud, Jack Ging, Rudy Solari

What happens to an innocent citizen arrested in error? It's the last thing Sgt Brown expects to learn when he visits Los Angeles. But learn he does when he finds himself under lock and key in the company of thieves, muggers and vicious criminals. Keeping his identity secret he decides to find out what will happen to him.

with Richard Whitmore
Weather

(Colour)