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First day of the July Meeting

3.35 The Brown Jack Stakes (Handicap) for four-year-olds and upwards over 2 miles 6 furlongs and 34 yards

4.10 The Virginia Water Stakes for two-year-olds over 5 furlongs

4.45 The Balmoral Stakes (Handicap) for three-year-olds over the Swinley Course of 11 miles

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

Contributors

Commentator:
Peter O'Sullevan
Parade Ring commentator:
Clive Graham
Presented for television by:
John Vernon

by Rafael Sabatini
Adapted in six episodes by Constance Cox
(BBC recording, previously shown last year)

Contributors

Author:
Rafael Sabatini
Adapted by:
Constance Cox
Producer:
Naomi Capon
Designer:
John Cooper
Film Cameraman:
John Turner
Film Editor:
Valerie Best
Louis-Charles, the Dauphin:
Ronnie Raymond
Chaumette:
Michael Brennan
Herbert:
Alan Edwards
Simon:
George Coulouris
J.L. David, the painter:
John Serret
Etienne La Salle, his pupil:
Barry Letts
First soldier:
Ivor Salter
Second soldier:
Richard Carpenter
Marie-Therese, the Dauphin's sister:
Judith Perkins
Baron Jean de Batz:
Patrick Cargill
Madame Simon:
Bee Duffell
Third soldier:
David Ludman
First Commissioner:
Douglas Dempster
Second Commissioner:
John Serret

No storms on earth compare with the tornado in violence and destructiveness; so great is the fury of its blast that wooden sticks have been hurled right through iron plate, and even corn stalks have been driven into doors and trees with such force that they stood out like porcupine quills.
Written and produced by Tony Arnold.

Contributors

Writer/producer:
Tony Arnold

Seasonal work in garden and greenhouse.
Introduced by Percy Thrower.
Lilies
Edward E. Kemp, Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh shows recommended varieties for border planting and propagation methods to increase stock.
From the BBC's Midland television studio

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Item presenter (Lilies):
Edward E. Kemp
Presented by:
Paul Morby

Written by Austin Melford.
[Starring] Alexander Gauge

Contributors

Writer:
Austin Melford
Theme Music:
Trevor H. Stanford
Settings:
Stephen Bundy
Producer:
Ronald Marsh
Brigadier Garnet Wellington-Bull:
Alexander Gauge
Jane, his daughter:
Valerie Singleton
Captain 'Sooty' Pilkington:
Donald Hewlett
The Rajah:
Andre van Gyseghem
The Rajah's wife:
Fenella Fielding
Abdur Rahman:
Oscar Quitak

George Black and Alfred Black and Greenlea Productions Ltd. present an excerpt from their new comedy 'Happy Days' by Walter Greenwood
At the Grand Theatre, Blackpool
Starring Thora Hird and Peter Sinclair
with Bert Brownbill, Alison Bayley, Jill Thompson, Pat Phoenix

A special performance before an invited audience from the Grand Theatre, Blackpool, by arrangement with Blackpool Tower Company Ltd.
(BBC recording)

Contributors

Author:
Walter Greenwood
Director:
Harold Boyes
Television Presentation:
Barney Colehan
Mrs. McTaggart:
Thora Hird
Mr. McTaggart:
Peter Sinclair
[Actor]:
Bert Brownbill
[Actress]:
Alison Bayley
[Actress]:
Jill Thompson
[Actress]:
Pat Phoenix

An exclusive night's world title fight in Montreal, in which Archie Moore - America's boxer of the year - is defending his world title. World Champion for the past seven years, Moore faces his toughest test in this return fight against Durelle. In their last meeting - a recording was shown on Tuesday night - veteran Moore got off the floor to knock out Durelle.

Contributors

Boxer:
Archie Moore
Boxer:
Yvon Durelle

A series of wild life programmes.
Introduced by Peter Scott.

Peter Scott interviews the Hungarian naturalist Loran de Bastyai, former manager of the bird section of the Budapest Zoo, and of the bird of prey settlement in Godollo; and shows some more extracts from the film 'A Kingdom on the Waters', directed by Istvan Homoki-Nagy, who was assisted in this work by Mr. Bastyai.

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Scott
Interviewee/film director (A Kingdom on the Waters):
Loran de Bastyai
Film director (A Kingdom on the Waters):
Istvan Homoki-Nagy
Editor:
John Merritt
Producer:
Eileen Molony

by Anthony Trollope
Adapted in six parts by Marjorie Deans

Lucy is deserted and Lizzie misbehaves.

(David McCallum appears by permission of The Rank Organisation)

Contributors

Author:
Anthony Trollope
Adapted by:
Marjorie Deans
Producer:
Naomi Capon
Designer:
John Cooper
Lady (Lizzie) Eustace:
Wendy Williams
Julia Macnulty:
Rosamund Greenwood
Frank Greystock:
David McCallum
Andy Gowran:
John Rae
Duke of Omnium:
Kynaston Reeves
Lady Glericora:
Jessica Dunning
Mrs. Carbuncle:
Peggy Livesey
Lord George Carruthers:
Michael Warre
Lady Fawn:
Jean Cadell
Lady Linlithgow:
Marda Vanne
Lucy Morris:
Perlita Neilson
The Rev. Joseph Emilius:
Edgar Wreford
James Lizzie's footman:
Roger Ostime
Patience, Lizzie's maid:
Susan Westerby
Bogson:
Laurie Webb
Hotel Manager:
Norman Bird
Hamble:
William Thomley
Superintendent of Police:
Nigel Sharpe

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