Viewers join the crowds at Ascot Racecourse to see three of the races on the first day of the October meeting.

2.30 The Mornington Stakes
A race for three-year-old Allies over the Swinley course of one mile and a half.

3.0 The Brocas Stakes
A handicap race for three-year-olds and upwards over the Swinley course.

3.30 The Duke of Edinburgh Stakes
A rare for two-year-olds over six furlongs.

Clive Graham is beside the camera overlooking the Parade Ring to identify the horses and jockeys before each race.

(Previously televised on April 10)

Iraq must live by her two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. But now a third river has been added, a river of oil in the shape of a thirty-two-foot pipeline, 155 miles long. from the Kirkuk Oilfield to the Mediterranean.
(to 16.15)

Royal River Pageant
The visit of H.M. The Queen and H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh to the Royal Festival Hall Pier on the South Bank of the Thames on July 22.
A BBC telerecording broadcast in response to many requests.

Fighting with Kit Carson
Final adventure in this serial film.

(to 17.45)

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Michael Westmore writes on page 15

An invitation to join Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne.
With some guests.

A visit to the Ice Stadium at Nottingham for the final period in tonight's Autumn Cup matches Exhibition skating by Monty and Barbara Readhead, the British Ice Dance Champions of 1953.

Peter Dimmock summarises some of today's highlights at Ascot.

(sound only)