Today and for the next three days viewers are invited to Ascot racecourse to watch some of the principal races during the Royal meeting.
If weather permits, viewers see the Royal Procession as it drives up the course to the Royal Enclosure.

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 Gold Vase
A race for three-year-olds and upwards, over two miles

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

Clive Graham, from a position overlooking the parade ring, helps viewers to identify the horses and jockeys.

Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children, and invites them to join in songs and games.
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
(A BBC film)
(to 16.15)

The Secret Garden: 8: When the Sun Went Down
A serial in eight parts adapted for television by Alice de Grey from the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Period, 1911

5.30-6.0 The Tower Children's Ballet: Happy Days
From Blackpool Tower
Ballet produced by Annette

from the Nuffield Centre before an audience of H.M. Forces.
Introduced by Mark Singleton with Frances Taylor and Gerald Delmondi, Ronnie Collis, Dick Emery.
At the pianos, Steve Race and Malcolm Lockyer
At the drums, Geoff Lofts

A comedy by Gregorio Martinez Sierra translated by John Garrett Underhill.
[Starring] Yvonne Arnaud with Alan Webb and Charles Heslop

The action takes place early in the present century at Madanu Pepita's dressmaking establishment in Madrid, and at her villa at Escorial.

(sound only)