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.
Script by PETER CLAYTON Producers BRIAN WILLEY and DENIS OKEEFFE
1500m only (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 (also 202m Scotland) VHF joins Radio 1
1.30; 2.0; 2.55; 3.25; 6.4* Olvmoic Special
A specially extended edition presented live from Montreal by Peter Jones. Desmond Lynam , and Alan Parry and the rest of the Sport on 2 team.
With the Games building up to their climax, 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, as we prepare for eight athletics finals and the boxing finals later today.
1.30; 2.0; 2.55; 3.15; 5.40; 6.41 Cricket
Middlesex v The West Indians
THE WEST INDIANS return to Lord's for the third time on their tour, this time to play MIDDLESEX. News, too, of the day's County Championship matches, featuring Worcestershire v the champions. Leicestershire, at Worcester.
2.45; 3.15; 5.40* Racing from Goodwood
Featuring commentary by PETER BROMLEY on the Nassau Stakes, worth £12,000 to the winner.
2.50 PTS Laurels Stakes dim)
3.20 Nassau Stakes dim)
Plus results from the other meetings throughout the afternoon, with a classified check at 5.40*.
In Motor Racing, news of practice for tomorrow's German Grand Prix at Nurburgring from BARRIE GILL, and in Motor Cycling, the practice times for the Finnish Grand Prix from CHRIS CARTER in Imtra.
Timetable:
1.30 News/prospects from all featured events, including the lunchtime cricket scoreboard
2.0 Olympic Special/Cricket
2.45 Racing from Goodwood
2.55 Olympic Special/Cricket
3.15 Racing from Goodwood
3.25 Olympic Special/Cricket
5.0 Round-Up
5.30 Motor Sport
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
Including latest news of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, and close - of - play cricket scores,
Norrie Paramor and the BBC MIDLAND RADIO ORCHESTRA play the week's most popular tunes from Radio 2 programmes Introduced by Ruth Cubbin BBC Birmingham
Applications to join the listening panel should be addressed to: BBC, Pebble Mill Road, Birmingham B5 7QQ.
Sidney Harrison plays and presents the varying styles of Rostal and Schaefer and James Moody
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 Joanna Starr
Introduced by Don Durbridge Producers FRANK HOOPER and EOIN HAMILTON
The climax of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, with the pick of the action on Olympics 76 and the best of Radio 2 Music.
In athletics there are eight finals to be decided, among them the most gruelling event of all, the marathon. and the classic middle-distance track event, the men's 1500m. Commentary by ALAN PARRY , and expert comment by Olympic champion MARY PETERS.
In boxing, the finals, with commentary by DESMOND LYNAM. Plus up-to-the-minute news of all the other events, headline summaries every half-hour, comment on the issues of the moment, 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