The Royal Procession drives up the course to the Royal Enclosure before the first race.

2.30 The Jersey Stakes for three-year-olds over seven furlongs

3.5 The Queen Mary Stakes for two-year-old fillies over five furlongs

3.45 The Royal Hunt Cup
A handicap race for three-year-olds and upwards over the Royal Hunt Cup Course of one mile

4.20 The Coronation Stakes for three-year-old fillies over the Old Mile

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

For the Very Young
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
Peter Hawkins speaks the voices
Maria Bird writes the songs and music
(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.45)

by Alexandre Dumas.
Adapted as a serial in five parts by Estelle Holt.

(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on September 4, 1956)

Peter West asks Who? What? Why? When? Where? and expects you to know the answers in this question and answer game including country questions with Percy Edwards the bird man.

Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - People - Politics
Travel - Theatre - Cinema
with Derek Hart and Geoffrey Johnson Smith
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[Starring] Amos 'n' Andy in the film Ready-made Family
A wife and a baby are borrowed to impress rich Uncle Clarence, but he is not impressed by the embarrassing consequences.

[Starring] George Burns and Gracie Allen in the film Eastward Bound
George's idea is to use a famous nuclear scientist, travelling incognito on the coast-to-coast express, for publicity. Gracie picks the wrong man and there is a surprise ending in New York.

Cyril Stapleton presents Show Band Parade.
Featuring the BBC Show Band in popular music of yesterday, today, and tomorrow with Petula Clark, Marie Benson and the Londonairs, Alice Babs, Yvette Horner, The Show Band Singers and The Dancers.

by Mary Webb
Adapted for television in six weekly instalments by Constance Cox
[Starring] Daphne Slater, Paul Daneman, Patrick Troughton
with Nora Nicholson

The action takes place in Shropshire; in the Mug of Cider and the market at Lullingford; at the Sarn farm; and in Mr. Grimble's kitchen.
Time: 1814

A film profile
Trevor Howard is interviewed by Peter Haigh.
Excerpts from some of his films will be shown including 'Brief Encounter', 'The Third Man', 'Cockleshell Heroes', 'Interpol' and 'Manuela'.
Other stars seen include: Celia Johnson, Joseph Cotten, Jose Ferrer, Anita Ekberg,
Elsa Martinelli.
Films by courtesy of the Rank Organisation, British Lion Films, and Columbia Pictures

Sit tight in your chair And we'll take you there
to
Dive by Night below the waters of the Mediterranean
The underwater research ship Calypso is anchored south of Marseilles. Tonight Commandant Jacques Yves Cousteau and his team of divers take outside broadcast cameras and floodlights deep into the silent world of the sea.
The Men on the Spot: Wynford Vaughan Thomas and Bob Danvers-Walker.

(by courtesy of Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise)
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There are hazards to man in any nuclear test. What are the effects of radiation? How much do atomic and hydrogen bombs let off in peacetime add to radiation already existing from natural sources? Tonight's programme deals with a recent report of the Medical Research Council on these questions.

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