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2.0 The Chichester Stakes
A handicap race for three-year-olds and upwards, over six furlongs

2.30 The Gordon Stakes
For three-year-olds, over one mile, three furlongs, and two hundred yards

3.10 The Chesterfield Cup
A handicap race for three-year-olds and upwards, over the Craven Course of one mile and a quarter

Clive Graham identifies the horses and jockeys in the Parade Ring.

Contributors

Commentator:
Peter O'Sullevan
Paddock commentator:
Clive Graham
Television presentation:
John Vernon

For Older Children
The Friday Western: The Golden Peso
starring The Range Rider and Dick West.
While the Range Rider is talking with an old prospector a shot is fired through the window and the prospector is killed. Range Rider is accused and thrown into jail, but he escapes and with the help of Dick West he unmasks a gang of gold-mine robbers and clears himself of the charge.

Diving to Adventure
One of a series of films in which Dr. Hans Hass and his wife Lotte show you pictures they have taken under the sea.

(to 18.00)

Contributors

Presenter/filmmaker (Diving to Adventure):
Dr. Hans Hass
Presenter/filmmaker (Diving to Adventure):
Lotte Hass

A visit to Coatbridge Baths, Lanarkshire, to see the first part of this two-day event.

With the Olympic Games only a few months ahead, this international will give the selectors a further opportunity to study form for their choice of swimmers who will travel to Melbourne, and both countries are likely to be represented by as strong a team as each can muster.
Another broadcast from Coatbridge: tomorrow at 2.45 p.m.

Contributors

Commentator:
John Webb
Presented by:
Noble Wilson

by Anthony Francis.
A series of half-hour plays about famous men and women who were known to the world by names other than their own.

[Starring] Mary Morris, Walter Fitzgerald and David Peel
The action takes place in France between 1791 and 1793. The name by which the principal character is commonly known will be revealed only towards the end of the story.

Contributors

Writer:
Anthony Francis
Director:
Charles Lefeaux
Designer:
Norman James
Jean-Paul:
Walter Fitzgerald
Skipper:
Edward Jewesbury
Marie d' Armont:
Mary Morris
Augustin:
Peter Coke
Madame de Bretteville:
Barbara Everest
Town Crier:
Eugene Leahy
Charles Barbaroux:
David Peel
Henri:
Cyril Shaps
Therese:
Barbara Cole

Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton.
[Starring] Tony Hancock
with Sidney James, Hermione Baddeley, Lorrae Desmond, Warren Mitchell.

Contributors

Writer:
Alan Simpson
Writer:
Ray Galton
Orchestra conducted by:
Bob Sharples
Incidental music composed and arranged by:
Wally Stott
Designer:
Stewart Marshall
Producer:
Duncan Wood
Anthony Aloysius Hancock:
Tony Hancock
Sidney Balmoral James:
Sidney James
Dancing teacher:
Hermione Baddeley
Secretary:
Lorrae Desmond
Film Producer:
Warren Mitchell

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