LIVE BBC COVERAGE Date: Sunday 6 April Start time: 1630 BST Location: River Thames Grandstand on BBC1 BBC Sport website BBC Radio Five Live

Steve will be joined on the riverside by Sydney 2000 Olympic Gold medallist and 1997 Oxford Blue Tim Foster.

Barry Davies, Chris Bailieu and Dan Topolski are the commentators, while Hazel Irvine will be Thames-side capturing the colour and atmosphere of the day.

This year over 25 cameras line the river and for the first time a Global Positioning System (GPS) will be used to chart the exact position of the boats in relation to each other and the course.

The on-board system will also transmit the comparative stroke rate and speed of both crews and heart rate monitors will feed back the individual efforts of the crew.

Also new for 2003 is coxcam - showing the coxes in action - and cameras in the boathouses, capturing the final preparations of both crew before they take to the water.

Plus:

• Willie Carson will be put through his paces by James Cracknell when the lightweight ex-jockey learns how to be a cox.

• Matt Pinsent will be explaining the tactics and the tricks of how to win the Boat Race.

• There's an alternative guide to the course taking viewers on a riverside journey to the best pubs, notable landmarks and places of interest from Putney to Mortlake.

• Father and son duo Peter and Dan Snow team up to travel down river charting the highs and lows, the sinkings and the clashes of 148 years of Boat Race history.