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Today and for the next four days viewers visit Ascot to watch some of the principal races.
This afternoon, if weather permits, viewers see the Royal Procession as it drives up the course.

2.30 Queen Anne Stakes
A race for three-year-olds and upwards, over the Royal Hunt Cup course, of seven furlongs, one hundred and fifty-five yards

3.5 The Ascot Gold Vase
A race for three-year-olds and upwards (two miles)

3.45 Ascot Stakes
A handicap race for three-year-olds and upwards (two and a half miles)

Clive Graham assisted by S. Langley from a position overlooking the Parade Ring will help viewers to identify the horses and jockeys.

(to 16.00)

Contributors

Commentator (Queen Anne Stakes):
Henry Green
Race reader (Queen Anne/Ascot Stakes):
Roger Mortimer
Commentator (The Ascot Gold Vase):
Peter Dimmock
Race reader (The Ascot Gold Vase):
Robert Haynes
Commentator (Ascot Stakes):
Peter O'Sullevan
Parade Ring commentator:
Clive Graham
Assisted by:
S. Langley

A comedy by Peter Traill.
[Starring] Andre Morell and Eileen Peel
The action takes place in the sitting-room of Colonel Rowton's furnished apartments in a small seaside resort near Torquay.
(Second performance on Thursday at 8.15 p.m.)

Contributors

Writer:
Peter Traill
Settings:
James Bould
Producer:
Kenneth Milne Buckley
Petronella:
Muriel Pavlow
Colonel Rowtoc:
Andre Morell
Major Gunman:
Joss Ambler
Mrs. Weathers:
Eileen Peel
Mrs. Huggins:
Elizabeth Maude
Jim Milson:
John Witty
George Milison:
Howard Douglas

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