Producer DENYS JONES Including at
6.55 Olympic Sports Desk: latest news of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, with comment, interviews, and a special check on the performances of the British team in every sport.
8.3 Racing Bulletin
with your
Smiling Saturday Show Producer MICHAEL FORD BBC Birmingham
Len Jackson with the best of Radio 2. Extracts in words and music selected from last week's programmes.
(Stereo)
1500monly (also 202m Scotland) VHF joins Radio 1 starring the mind and madness of David Morgan with Pat Coombs , Bill Pertwee and the Don Lusher Quartet
Script by DAVID MORGAN Producer JOHN SIMMONDS
(Rptd: Sun 7.2 pm VHF only)
1500m only i also 202m Scotland) VHF joins Radio 1
1.30; 2.0; 2.40; 3.25; 6.4* Olympic Special
A specially extended edition presented live from Montreal by Peter Jones. Desmond Lynam. Alan Parry and the rest of the Sport on 2 team.
Commentary and news of today's early action, with world champion David Wilkie in the 200m breaststroke; Sonia Lan naman in the 100m; finals in the rowing, preliminary bouts in the boxing and the cross-country phase in the three-day event.
Comment on the issues of the moment: interviews with the personalities involved at home and abroad, and expert analysis by Olympic champions, MARY PETERS and ANITA LONSBROUGH.
1.30; 2.0; 2.40; 3.25; 5.40; 6.4* Cricket
England v
The West Indies
The third day of the Fourth Test at Headingley. Reports throughout the afternoon from BRIAN JOHNSTON and CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS .
Plus reports from HENRY BLOFELD on the first day of the Third Women's Test, England v Australia, at The Oval, and news of the six County Championship matches, featuring the match between Middlesex and Nottinghamshire.
1.48; 2.30; 3.15; 5.40*
Racing from Ascot
Featuring a high-class field for one of the season's great races, the King George VI and the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes, worth 1100,000 to the winner.
2.35 The Princess Margaret Stakes <6f)
3.20 The King George VI and the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes (ljm)
Comentator PETER BROMLEY
Plus results of the other meetings throughout the afternoon, with a classified check at 5.40*. Also news of the final day of the English Amateur Championship at Canton, Yorkshire. the Swiss Open Championship and the Swedish Motor Cycling TT.
Timetable:
1.30 News/prospects from all featured events, including the lunchtime . cricket scoreboard
2.0 Olympic Special/Cricket
2.30 Racing from Ascot
2.40 Olympic Special/Cricket/
Golf
3.15 Racing from Ascot
3.2S Olympic Special/Cricket/
Golf
5.30 Motor Sport/Golf
5.40 Classified Racing/Cricket
6.3 Cross-Channel Motoring
Information
6.4 Olympic Special/Cricket
Events may alter timings
A Radio Sports Unit production
1500m only (also 202m Scotland) VHF joins Radio 1
Conceived, nurtured and done hy Tim Brooke-Tayior
Barry Cryer. John Junkin
Including latest news of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, and close - of - play cricket scores.
Norric Paramor and the BBC MIDLAND RADIO ORCHESTRA play the week's most popular tunes from Radio 2 programmes Introduced by John Dunn BBC Birmingham
Sidney Harrison plays and presents the varying styles of Rostal and Schaefer and the Brian Dee Trio Producer ALAN OWEN
with the BBC RADIO ORCHESTRA Angela Morley and the Strings Alyn Ainsworth and the RADIO BIG BAND
Brian Fahey and the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA with Rosemary Squires
Introduced by Don Durbridge Producers FRANK HOOPER and EOIN HAMILTON
The 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, with the pick of the action each evening on Olympics 76, and the best of Radio 2 Music.
Britain have high hopes of a swimming medal this evening, with world champion David Wilkie competing In the 200m breaststroke. In athletics there are three finals, including the men's shot.
At the Olympic pool: PETER JONES and ANITA LONSBROUGH.
In the Olympic Stadium: ALAN PARRY and MARY PETERS.
Plus up-to-the-minute news of all the other events, headline summaries every half-hour, comment, special checks on the performances of the British team in every sport, and interviews with the personalities involved in the Olympic action at home and abroad.
A Radio Sports Unit and Radio 2 Music co-production.
2.30-2.31. News Summary