The first of three visits to Lord's Cricket Ground to see play on the second day.
(to 13.30)
The Royal Procession drives up the course to the Royal Enclosure.
From Lord's.
3.45 The Wokingham Stakes
A handicap race for three-year-olds and upwards over six furlongs
Clive Graham identifies the horses and the jockeys in the Parade Ring before each race.
Roma Fairley describes the fashions.
For the Very Young
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
(A BBC Television Film)
4.20 Hardwicke Stakes for four-year-old and upwards entire horses and mares over the Swinley Course of one mile and a half
4.55 The Queen Alexandra Stakes for four-year-olds and upwards over two miles six furlongs and thirty-four yards
Clive Graham identifies the horses and jockeys in the Parade Ring before each race.
Roma Fairley describes the fashions.
by Frank Richards
[Starring] Gerald Campion
(A BBC Telerecording of the broadcast on September 23, 1956)
A film directed by Stephen Peet for the Central African Film Unit.
Philemon - star goal-keeper of 'Harari Wanderers', an African football team in Rhodesia - learns the hard way what can happen when you let success go to your head.
The closing overs of the second day's play with a summary by E. W. Swanton.
This edition recalls Douglas Fairbanks, Senior, in 'The Iron Mask' together with one of the earliest silent slapsticks, 'Model Wanted'.
by Michael Pertwee and Roland Pertwee.
asks Lionel Hale.
Susan Chitty, Norris McWhirter, Marshall Pugh, and a guest try to find the answers in 'The Newsreel Game'.
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Alan Melville takes you from A-Z through the world of entertainment and some of its more unusual aspects.
The programme based on the A.B.C. of Show Business by Wolf Mankowitz.
This week's letter 'S'
'S' for Show Business similarly 'S' for Stars represented by:
Britain's most famous Sister-act The Beverley Sisters, Muriel Smith, Eric Sykes, Sooty and, of course, Harry Corbett, Julian Slade
and an interview specially filmed in the South of France between Sir Compton Mackenzie and Robert Service, author of "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" from "Songs of a Sourdough".
(Muriel Smith appears by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd)
Some of the races in the early stages of this two-day International match.
Arranged by the Amateur Swimming Association
From the Harold Davies Baths, Liverpool.
by Charles M. Cohen
(A telerecording presented by arrangement with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
People who make the news face questions from people who write the news.
The guest in tonight's programme is the famous Italian painter Pietro Annigoni.
followed by Weather and Close Down
