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If weather permits, viewers see the Royal Procession as it drives up the course to the Royal Enclosure.

2.30 Cork and Orrery Stakes
A race for three-year-olds and upwards, over six furlongs

3.5 The New Stakes
A race for two-year-olds, over five furlongs

3.45-4.0 The Gold Cup
A race for three-year-olds and upwards, with a gold cup value five hundred sovereigns, and ten thousand sovereigns added, over two and a half miles.

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

Contributors

Commentator (Cork and Orrery Stakes/The Gold Cup):
Peter Dimmock
Race-reader (Cork and Orrery Stakes):
Robert Haynes
Commentator (The New Stakes):
Raymond Glendenning
Race-reader (The New Stakes):
Tom E. Webster
Race-reader (The Gold Cup):
Peter O'Sullevan
Parade Ring commentator:
Clive Graham

A play by Wilfred Harvey adapted from the story in "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo.
[Starring] Harcourt Williams
The play takes place in a small French town in the year 1815.
Second performance next Sunday

Contributors

Author:
Victor Hugo
Adapted by:
Wilfred Harvey
Producer:
Naomi Capon
Settings:
Stephen Taylor
The Bishop:
Harcourt Williams
Mile. Baptistine his sister:
Susan Richmond
Mme. Magloire, the housekeeper:
Winifred Hill
Valjean, the convict:
Patrick Crean
The Policeman:
Diarmuid Kelly

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