Producer JACK DABBS
8.3 Racing Bulletin
with your Smiling. Saturday Show
Producer DAVID WELSBY
John Dunn with the best of Radio 2. Extracts selected from last week's programmes. Script by PETER CLAYTON Producers STEVE ALLEN and JOHN MELOY
1500m only (also 202m Scotland) VHF joins Radio 1 Cracking the gags
Freddie Davies , Mike Newman and Bill Pertwee
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
Alan Parry introduces the pick of the day's sporting action:
1.30, 2.10. 2.40. 3.25* Cricket
With the Second Test against England at Lord's only five days away, the Australian Touring Team take on Leicestershire - and once again they face RAY ILLINGWORTH , who as England's captain took the Ashes from them in 1971. In the County Championships reports on two matches:
Warwickshire v Essex at Edgbaston, and Surrey v Yorkshire at The Oval.
Commentary and reports by CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS
HENRY BLOFELD , ALAN MCGILVRAY
1.30, 2.10, 2.40, 3.25* International
Show Jumping
The world's top competitors are at the Empire Pool, Wembley, for one of the biggest events of the year, the Royal International Horse Show. Reports by DEREK THOMPSON, with interviews.
Show jumping: two kinds of hero: page 50
1.30, 2.0. 2.30. 3.15. 5.40*
Racing from Ascot
Featuring a high-class field for the £120,000 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes , and the £2,000Stai of Sierra Leone Diamond Stakes, the most valuable ladies' race of the year.
2.0 The Star of Sierra Leone Diamond Stakes.
2.35 Princess Margaret Stakes.
3.20 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes.
Plus results from other meetings throughout the afternoon, with a classified check at 5.40*. Duel on the turf: page 4
1.30, 2.10, 2.41, 3.25* Cycling
The British Track Championships at I.eicester. Last year the legendary REG HARRIS , four times world professional sprint champion, came out of retirement to win the national title Today, at the age of 54, he attempts to win it again. Reports by JOHN BURNS , with expert comment by HUGH PORTER.
News, too, of the World Swimming Championships in Colombia; motor racing; in motor cycling, the Finnish Grand Prix; international athletics at Gateshead: The Queen's Prize at Bisley; RENTON LAlDLAW reports on the final day's play in the English Amateur Golf Championship at Royal Lytham and St Annes; with latest scores from the Scandinavian Open Golf Championship in Malmo.
Timetable
1.30 News and prospects from all featured events including the lunchtime cricket scoreboard.
2.0 Racing
2.10 Cricket; Show Jumping;
Cycling
2.30 Racing
2.40 Cricket; Show Jumping;
Cycling
3.15 Racing
3.25 Cricket; Show Jumping;
Cycling
5.0 Round-up
5.30 Motor Sport
5.40* Classified Racing/Cricket Events may alter timings
A Radio Sports Unit production
1500m only (also 202m Scotland) VHF joins Radio 1
A special edition in which some of the interesting people who are
In Town Tonight mark the move of BBC's Radio 2 and Light Entertainment Departments from Aeolian Hall in New Bond Street, their home for the last 32 years, to their new premises near Broadcasting House.
Brian Johnston returns to the programme with his regular feature Let's Go Somewhere John Ellison interviews passers-by in Piccadilly Circus and makes a last visit to Aeolian Hall
Introduced by John Timpson
Producers IAN FENNER , BOBBY JAYE
(1500m only) (also 202m Scotland) (VHF joins Radio 1)
7.30 Sports Desk including Cricket Scoreboard
BBC NORTHERN RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor NEIL RICHARDSON BBC RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHNNY DOUGLAS play the week's most popular tuners from Radio 2 programmes Introduced by Tony Brandon
with the BBC RADIO ORCHESTRA Douglas Gamley and the Strings Alyn Ainsworth and the Radio Big Band and Kamahl with Brian Fahey and the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA Introduced by Ray Moore Producers FRANK HOOPER and EOIN HAMILTON
Presented in London by David Gell
A monthly programme In which
1.600 young people in seven European countries vote to discover the number one record in Europe today. Taking part:
Germany (WDR), Norway (NRK) Ireland (RTE). Spain (RNE) Sweden (SR), Finland (YLE) United Kingdom (BBC) Producer STEVE ALLEN
11.2 Sports Desk with evening racing results
with Music Through Midnight Producers BILL BEBB
BARBARA PAGE, MEL HOUSE including at 12.0
Midnight Newsroom; weather