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BBC Television outside broadcast cameras visit Ascot Racecourse on the second day of the Ascot Heath Meeting.

2.0 The Blacknest Stakes for three-year-olds and upwards over 1 mile

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

Contributors

Commentator:
Peter O'Sullevan
Paddock commentator:
Clive Graham
Presented for Television by:
Dennis Monger

at Aintree.
The start of this 270-mile race over the famous three-mile track in which the world's fastest racing cars and premier drivers compete.
Organised by the British Automobile Racing Club for the Aintree Automobile Racing Company Limited
Commentary by Raymond Baxter with John Bolster reporting from the pits.

(See page 4)

Contributors

Commentator:
Raymond Baxter
Pit-lane Reporter:
John Bolster
Television Presentation:
Ray Lakeland

A new series for television by Frank Richards
[Starring] Gerald Campion

Pharic Maclaren writes:
In the timeless air of Greyfriars School, life goes on just as it always has done. The gimlet eyes of Mr. Quelch are quite as steely as they ever were and Billy Bunter still likes cake-no matter whose it is. Happily for us, the occupants of Greyfriars, like all our fictional friends and heroes, neither change nor grow any older, though not all the actors who brought Frank Richards's characters to life in previous episodes on television are available to take part when a new series comes along. But though the casts may change, the characters that we and our parents have come to know so well, will always remain just as they have always been. Wharton, Cherry, Nugent, Johnny Bull , and Hurree Singh will still be the 'Famous Five'. Mr. Quelch will still be the Beak, and jam tarts will always be jam tarts, and fair game to Billy Bunter, whom you can see again this afternoon.

Contributors

Writer:
Frank Richards
Producer:
Pharic MacLaren
Designer:
Gordon Roland
Billy Bunter:
Gerald Campion
Bob Cherry:
Keith Faulkner
Harry Wharton:
Anthony Valentine
Frank Nugent:
Lawrence Harrington
Johnny Bull:
David Coote
Hurree Singh:
James Doran
Lord Mauleverer:
Glyn Dearman
Mr. Quelch:
Kynaston Reeves
Tramp:
Ivan Owen

with Josephine Douglas and Pete Murray introducing among others:
Dennis Lotis, Freddie Mills, Patti Lewis, Vic Lewis and his Orchestra, Don Lang and his Frantic Five, Terry Dene
Special guest: Stephane Grappelly

(Terry Dene is appearing at the Empire, Finsbury Park)

Contributors

Presenter:
Josephine Douglas
Presenter:
Pete Murray
Singer:
Dennis Lotis
Sport presenter:
Freddie Mills
Singer:
Patti Lewis
Musicians:
Vic Lewis and his Orchestra
Musicians:
Don Lang and his Frantic Five
Singer:
Terry Dene
Violinist:
Stephane Grappelly
Script:
Trevor Peacock
Producer:
Jack Good

A serial in six episodes by Michael Gilbert.
[Starring] Jill Adams, Terence Alexander
(Raymond Mann appears by permission of the Guildford Theatre Co., Ltd.)

Contributors

Writer:
Michael Gilbert
Costumes Supervisor:
Sheila Glassford
Make-up:
Susan Park
Film Cameraman:
Leonard Newson
Film Editor:
Harry Hastings
Designer:
John Cooper
Producer:
Gerard Glaister
'Professor' Hagen:
Danny Green
Stevenson-Smith:
Oliver Johnston
Ben Hagen:
Edward Judd
Sam:
Mark Heath
Shon:
Glyn Houston
Stayman:
Charles Workman
Supt Blades:
Ernest Hare
Inspector Hodsell:
Jack Lambert
Shelley Stayman:
Jill Adams
Mr. Cork Charles:
Lloyd Pack
Railway porter:
Raymond Mason
Oliver Male:
Terence Alexander
Mr. Male, Snr:
Patrick Waddington
Also taking part:
Mark Brackenbury
Also taking part:
Patrick Milner
Also taking part:
Harry Moore
Also taking part:
Richard Sullivan

Starring Jimmy Wheeler
with Larry Adler, Fredye Marshall, George Martin, The De Marios, Four Others, The Television Toppers.

Contributors

Entertainer:
Jimmy Wheeler
Mouth organist:
Larry Adler
Singer:
Fredye Marshall
Comedian:
George Martin
Dancers:
The De Marios
Dancers:
The Television Toppers
Dance Direction:
Larry Gordon
Orchestra Director:
Eric Robinson
Designer:
Audley Southcott
Producer:
G.B. Lupino

(See columns 1 and 2 and page 6)

The second part of the opening concert of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Soloist, Eileen Joyce

Overture: The Mastersingers......... Wagner
Piano Concerto No. 2, in G minor Saint-Saens
Variations and Fugue on a theme of Purcell (The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra) Benjamin Britten
Introduced by Alvar Lidell.
At 9.0

Contributors

Presenter:
Alvar Lidell
Television Presentation:
Antony Craxton
Musicians:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
Paul Beard
Conductor:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Soloist:
Eileen Joyce

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