The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Presenters JULIE STEVENS , FRED HARRIS
2.15 The Red Dragon Stakes (5f)
2.45 The Sefton Stakes (7f 122yds)
3.20 The Ladbroke Chester Cup (Handicap) (2m 2f 97yds)
Peter O'Sullevan 's top hurdler Attivo is among the runners for this unique event, first run in 1824, with a first prize of over £6,500.
3.50 The Cheshire Oaks (1m 4f 65yds). One of the North's leading prizes for three-year-old fillies. Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN , CLIVE GRAHAM Reporter JULIAN WILSON
Outside broadcast producer RAY LAKELAND Editor ALAN HART
5: Survival on the Reef
Some creatures carry so much weaponry and armour it's remarkable their predators don' die of starvation. The balance of life on a coral reef is partly the balance of population between predators and prey. Only the very largest fish are safe from being eaten-most reef inhabitants are someone else's dinner. ROLAND VON HENTIG continues his exploration of the reefs of Comoro in the Indian Ocean.
Producer DAVID CORDINGLEY A BBC/NDR co-production
Coral World, £3.20, from bookshops
Weather
Tony Joe White means 'Swamp-rock' and that means songs like 'Groupie Girl' and 'Polk Salad Annie'...
Reporters: JEREMY JAMES
JEANNE LACHARD , JOHN PITMAN JACK PIZZEY , DESMOND WILCOX HAROLD WILLIAMSON
This week: Bombay Superstar
Nothing succeeds like excess in the Indian film industry. In Bombay-Hollywood of the East-a new, noisy, colourful feature film is churned out every three days.
Heroic heroes battle furiously with villainous villains - everything is larger than life, including Rajesh Khanna , Bombay's superstar. JACK pizzey and a Man Alive film team watched Rajesh dancing through love scenes beneath the Himalayan snows and plotting his way through the intrigues of the Bombay film world.
Producer JENNY BARRACLOUGH Editor ADAM CLAPHAM
Tony Bilbow presents a round-up of what's going on in the film world including Kid Blue with Dennis Hopper as an ex-bandit trying to go straight; An Investigation of Murder featuring Bruce Dern , whose performance in The Great Gatsby has been highly praised; and Dillinger starring Warren Oates as the notorious 1930s American bank robber.
Philip Jenkinson looks at an earlier version of Dillinger and other famous gangster movies from the vintage years starring James Cagney , Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson.
Producer BARRY BROWN
Philip Jenkinson : page 9
Bob Harris with the news, views, and sounds of today's music Beckett, Graham Nash plus album tracks, films, guests.
Director COLIN STRONG
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON
with David Holmes ; Weather