All the spectacle and thrills of the world's greatest steeplechase direct from Aintree
3.20 The Grand National over 41 miles and 30 of the best-known fences in steeplechasing.

Starring Jane Powell, Cliff Robertson, Keith Andes and Kaye Ballard

A Cinderella story about a pretty girl with romantic notions whose real-life search for the Prince Charming of her day-dreams is almost too successful!

At the beginning of the gardening year Percy Thrower welcomes viewers to his own gardens in Shropshire
(from BBC Midlands)

Introduced by Cliff Morgan

Before today's critical match and its bearing on the Championship, this was the International table:

No Triple Crown for Wales after their surprise defeat by Ireland in Dublin, but still a chance to regain some of their reputation if they can beat a French team who have already beaten Ireland 8-0 in Paris and Scotland 11-9 at Murrayfield.
Wales have beaten France only twice in the past 12 seasons and will need to find a new approach to combat this successful attacking French side.

is how Brian Glanville sees contemporary sportsmen in this series of highly personal films

The novelist and sports writer Brian Glanville fears that the real value of sport is being undermined by the demands and tensions of our competitive society. The danger-signals are most in evidence in the worlds of football and athletics. He believes that as attention focuses on the FA Cup Final, the World Cup, and preparations for the 1972 Olympic Games we ought to look beyond the headlines and consider what we are doing to our sporting heroes - and what they are doing to us.
Among those taking part:
international footballers Francis Lee, Pat Crerand and Charlie Cooke
athletics coaches Ron Pickering and Geoff Dyson
Britain's Olympic Captain at Tokyo Robbie Brightwell and his wife Ann Packer
and the former Captain of England and Arsenal Eddie Hapgood

International Festival of Country Music
More than 40 of the greatest Country and Western stars fly from the home of Country music in Nashville, Tennessee, to the Empire Pool, Wembley, for Europe's greatest festival of Country and Western music. Presenting some of the best performances, featuring: Tex Ritter, Tompall and the Glaser Brothers, The Loretta Lynn Show, George Hamilton IV and so many more
Introduced by David Allen
(Televised by arrangement with Mervyn Conn)

The weekly arts magazine presented by James Mossman

"Although Television is as yet in the experimental stage, the Baird Television Company, in co-operation with the BBC, is this afternoon presenting the first production of a play by television.
Care has been taken by the joint-producers of The Man with the Flower in his Mouth to make full use of the limited scope for visual production as yet afforded by the invention, and those listeners who are able to hear and witness the play will find it by far the most interesting television transmission so far attempted."
Radio Times, 14 July 1930

Tonight Review has reassembled the original cast, production and technical staff, and producer, Lance Sieveking, who made this pioneering event possible. They are in the studio to demonstrate how, with primitive equipment, magic effects were achieved.

by Patrick Foster

Carla Hudson is tense and nervous. She hears noises and whispers - cruel, horrible whispers. And there's her husband James, seemingly heartless and inattentive, and yes - there's the baby crying upstairs...

Introduced by Tommy Vance
featuring Fairport Convention, Hookfoot
with the best of the rest of pop

(The Tree of Liberty) starring Cary Grant, Martha Scott

A poor surveyor marries the daughter of an aristocratic Virginian family and fights against them in the War of Independence. This period drama stars Cary Grant as a self-made man with principles, and Martha Scott, the heroine of Our Town, as his wife.