BBC Television outside broadcast cameras visit Ascot Racecourse on the first day of the Ascot Heath Meeting to see three of the afternoon's principal races.

for three-year-old fillies over 1 mile

for two-year-old colts and geldings over 5 furlongs

for four-year-olds and upwards over 2 miles, 6 furlongs, and 34 yards

Clive Graham identifies the horses and jockeys in the Paddock before each race.

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)
(to 16.00)

The film of how the craftsmen of Brixham built this copy of the Elizabethan merchantman, which has been sailed across the Atlantic as a gift to the American people.
(Previously seen in the evening programmes on June 14)
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Jess Yates invites you to join him for news and views from the world of films.

Leslie Bricusse and Robert Robinson with something to interest and entertain you.
Guest singer, Sally Bazely

(Sally Bazely is appearing in "Grab Me a Gondola" at the Lyric Theatre, London)

Laurens van der Post in the last of six programmes tells of an expedition into the Kalahari Desert.

George Mitchell presents his Glee Club in a new show of songs for all lovers of music with Denny Bettis, Mary Reynolds, Maureen Hill, James Dark and The Jackpots. Accompanied by The Dennis Wilson Quartet and Harold Smart
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asks Lionel Hale and Sylvia Cheeseman, Susan Chitty, Ross McWhirter, Marshall Pugh try to find the answers in The Newsreel Game.

Including Special International Invitation Events
Organised by the Association of London Athletic Clubs and The London Evening News
From the White City Stadium, London.

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 'U' presents
Georges Ulmer, The famous French cabaret and recording star
(A BBC telerecording)
Ulanova, The Russian Prima Ballerina in a film excerpt
'The Ugly Duckling'
The well-known Walt Disney cartoon based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen.
and a special item illustrating
An Unusual Aspect of Show Business

The fourth in a series of six documentary films showing some of the ways in which people of other lands contribute to the life of the city and bring a flavour of their own country to London.
Written and introduced by Max Bellancourt.

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followed by Weather and Close Down