This week BBC television outside broadcast cameras will be following some of the principal races of this world-famous meeting.
The Royal Procession drives up the course to the Royal Enclosure before the first race.

2.30 The Queen Anne Stakes for three-year-olds and upwards over one mile on the Royal Hunt Cup Course

3.5 The Gold Vase for three-year-olds and upwards over two miles

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

Clive Graham identifies horses and jockeys in the Parade Ring before each race.
Roma Fairley describes the fashions.

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

The first of a series of exciting films about animals in Africa.
Today you can see how the hippopotami and birds live peacefully together, and how the baby crocodiles hatch out of their eggs.

(Previously seen in the evening programme on February 22)

If a man cannot be trusted in the West you meet him with your hand on the trigger.
And when his young son opens a safe and makes off with the gold there are sure to be bullets flying! Ricky, Champion, and Rebel intervene to save the boy's name but killers spring a trap in the mountains. Champion can beat anything on two or four legs, but can he win against hot lead?

Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport-Music-People-Politics
Travel-Theatre-Cinema
with Derek Hart and Geoffrey Johnson Smith.

Harriette Johns introduces a lighthearted entertainment with Jack Train, Peter Cavanagh, The Blonde Toppers, Nat Temple and his Orchestra.

from the King's Theatre, Hammersmith with Rawicz and Landauer, The Keynotes, The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes and introducing a guest artist.

[Starring] Joan Davis in the film series I Married Joan
Joan tries to disprove her husband's theory that jealousy is the mark of an inferior man. She succeeds beyond all her expectations but with embarrassing consequences.

by Joan Morgan
[Starring] Patricia Burke, Rupert Davies, John Longden

The action of the play takes place in London
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Doctors and scientists come to the studio to show what they are doing and why they are doing it.

This year is the tercentenary of the death of William Harvey, who discovered the circulation of the blood. Doctors and surgeons show something of his work and the new frontiers facing them today inside the living heart and the blood vessels.
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followed by Weather and Close Down