Producer JACK DABBS
8.3 Racing Bulletin
Your Smiling Saturday Show Producer DAVID WELSBY
12.2 Sports Desk with cricket
John Dunn with the best of Radio 2. Extracts in words and music selected from last week's programmes.
Script by STUART WEIR Producers STEVE ALLEN and JOHN MELOY
1500m only (also 202m Scotland) VHF joins Radio 1 from the Metropolitan Police Training School, Hendon. by permission of the Commissioner. Metropolitan Police Cracking the gags
Freddie Davies. Mike Newman and Bill Pertwee
Special guest Selena Jones With KEN MACKINTOSH AND THE
KING STREET BRASS and the MICHAEL JOHN SINGERS Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated: Sunday 7.2 pm)
1500m only (also 202m Scotland) VHF joins Radio 1
Grand Prix Special
Introduced direct from Silverstone by Peter Jones.
Can JAMES HUNT in the Hesketh follow up his recent triumph In Holland by becoming the first Englishman to win the British Grand Prix since 1958? Commentary on the race, the 10th in this year's world championship, plus interviews and expert comment.
Commentators: in the grandstand ROBIN RICHARDS , at Stowe Corner NEVILLE HAY, in the pits NORMAN GREENWAY. BARRIE GILL meets the personalities.
Cricket
Benson and Hedges Cup Final One of the show-pieces of the season, with Middlesex and Leicestershire battling at Lord's for a first prize of £3,000.
Commentators: JOHN ARLOTT , BRIAN JOHNSTON and CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS . Also reports on Derbyshire v The Australians at Chesterfield by ALAN GIBSON and ALAN MCGILVRAY.
1.30, 2.55, 5.40*
Racing at Newbury
Featuring at 3.0 the £5,000 Morland Brewery Trophy Handicap
Commentator PETER BROMLEY
News. too. of the Irish Oaks at The Curragh. other results; full classified check at 5.40*.
Athletics
The women's national championships at Crystal Palace. ALAN PARRY introduces the pick of the events with commentary by NORMAN CUDDEFORD and expert analysis by Olympic champion MARY PETERS.
Plus reports on the third round of the Swiss Open Golf Championship by RENTON LAIDLAW; on motor cycling, news of the Swedish Grand Prix from CHRIS CARTER : RICHARD BURNELL reports on the National Rowing Championships at Nottingham: a progress report by DAVID SAUNDERS on the Tour de Franee, which ends tomorrow; and news of international show jumping at Hickstead from ALISON DAWES.
3.55*
The Apollo/Soyuz Mission
The Final Undocking
Just after 4.0 pm the two manned spacecraft finally undock, after man's first international meeting in space. In London, ARTHUR GARRATT, with reaction from REGINALD TURNILL in Houston, and the voices of the Astronauts and Cosmonauts. Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS
Timetable
1.30 News and prospects Including cricket scoreboard
2.0 Motor Raoing/Cricket/Athlettcs: 2.55 Racing
3.5 Motor Racing/Cricket/Athletics; 3.55' Apollo/Soyuz
4.5 Cricket/Athletics
5.0 Round-up: 5.30 Motor Sport
5.40 Classified Racing
6.0 Cricket
Events may alter timings
A Radio Sports Unit production
1500m only (also 202m Scotland) VHF joins Radio 1
7.30 Sports Desk with cricket
Introduced by Anton Dolin
Ralph Holmes (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra, leader Arthur Leavins, conductor Ashley Lawrence
The programme includes extracts from Sylvia, Solitaire, The Lilac Garden, La Boutique Fantasque, and Swan Lake
(Presented by the BBC at the Assembly Hall, Worthing, in association with Worthing Corporation)
Report on The final Separation
As the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrait start their independent journeys back to earth, ARTHUR GARRATT reports from London with reaction from PHILIP SHORT in MOSCOW.
The top pop of the month from Austria. Great Britain. Hungary Ireland. Monte Carlo, Poland
Portugal, Switzerland West Germany. Yugoslavia Introduced from London by Katie Boyle Organised by W German Radio
with Music Through Midnight Producers BILL REBB
BARBARA PAGE. MEL HOUSE
Including at 11.2 Sports Desk and at 12.0
Midnight Newsroom; weather