with The Early Show
Producer ROBIN RICHMOND
including at 5.45 and 7.15 Boxing
George Foreman v Jose Roman
Reports on the World Heavyweight Championship
From Tokyo
The fight can be seen on BBC1 tonight at 9.20
and at 8.3 Racing Bulletin

Speak for Yourself: KEN BLAKESON

introduces
THE RON WEATHERBURN TRIO
THE MIKE SAMMES SINGERS
THE RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by GEOFF I.OVE and special guests Lee Gibson The Albert Hall Band Producer BARBARA PAGE

with special guest Nancy Wilson BROOKS AEHRON , TREVOR CHANCE and TONY OSBORNE
New Song Composers
Steve Glen , Ian Stephenson THE MIKE ALLEN SINGERS
THE PETER KNIGHT ORCHESTRA
Musical associate BOBBY RICHARDS Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN

(Details as Friday, 7.2 pm)

THE BAND OF THE LIFE GUARDS conductor CAPTAIN A j. RICHARDS Director of Music
Introduced by Eugene Fraser Producer ALLAN GILES

1500m only
Introduced by Alan Parry
2.10; 2.40; 3.5; 3.35; 6.2*
A Gillette Cup Special Gloucestershire v Sussex
Mike Procter uommeniaiors BRIAN JOHNSTON and JOHN ARLOTT , with expert comments from TREVOR BAILEY Buss ticket to the Final: p 4
2.30; 3.5; 3.45; 3.55; 4.50; 5.45* Soccer
News of Football League matches throughout the afternoon. including commentary by MAURICE EDELSTON and PETER JONES on a top game
2.55; 3.25; 5.45*
Racing: Kempton Park
3.0 British Car Auction Selling Stakes: 3.30 Burmah Castro) Handicap. Commentator MICHAEL SETH-SMITH
2.30; 3.5; 3.35*
Rugby Union
Harlequin Invitation Sevens
Commentators PETER YARRANTON and CHRIS REA
3.35*
Golf from Sandwich
Double Diamond International Reports from JOHN FENTON
And at the new time of 4.42 Sports Report
Bringing you the football results as they come in, with the classified check at 4.50*. Followed by a report-a-minute on the top games of the day. Also news, comment and personalities from the rest of the day's sport - featuring the climax of the Gillette Cup Final. Plus a rundown on the day's football and racing results at 5.45*.
Timetable
2.2 Scene set - latest news
2.10 Gillette Cup
2.30 Rugby Union, Soccer
2.40 Gillette Cup; 2.55 Racing
3.5 Gillette Cup, Rugby, Soccer
3.25 Racing
3.35 Golf, Gillette Cup, Rugby
3.45 Soccer- Half-times, reports
3.55 Soccer; 4.42 Sports Report
4.50 Classified football
6.2 Gillette Cup
A Radio Sports Unit production Producers GODFREY DIXEY
GEOFF DOBSON , JOHN FENTON JOHN HASLAM , BERT KINGDON
ROGER MACDONALD , KEN PRAGNELL and DICK SCALES
Deputy editor BOB BURROWS Editor CLIFF MORGAN

1500m only
David Gell invites you to a fiesta of Latin-American music. Featuring this week original new recordings from Paraguay. new Latin LP record reviews, and THE MILANDO ORCHESTRA and STELLA AND BAMBOS Producer DAVID GELL
7.31 Sports Desk: including close-of-play cricket scores

The North German Radio entry
With NANA GUALDI, SVEN JENSEN, JOHNNY MOLLER, JOE MENT
THE METROPOLE ORCHESTRA OF NETHERLANDS RADIO AND TELEVISION conducted by ALFRED HAUSE
Introduced by Werner Veigel Producer TIM VAN BEEK

THE MIDLAND RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor NORRIE PARAMOR play the week's most popular tunes from Radio 2 programmes Introduced this week by Simon Bates
Producer JOHN KINGDON
(Applications to join the listening panel should be addressed to ' Radio 2 Top Tunes,' BBC, Pebble Mill Road, Birmingham B5 7QQ)

at Belle Vue, Manchester
Twenty-one bands competed today for the f2,000 Gold Challenge Trophy and the title of British Open Champions, 1973. Shortly after the result was declared, the winning band recorded this programme which includes their performance of the test piece The Accursed Huntsman.
Introduced by Harry Mortimer Producer JAMES LANGLEY

Simon Bates presents CHRIS BARBER BAND
ALEX WELSH AND HIS BAND KENNY BALL'S
JAZZMEN DAVE SHEPHERD SEXTET
Producer BEVERLEY PHILLIPS

Introduced by Peter Donaldson Producers PAM COX and JOHN MELOY