Fred Streeter looks round the garden and piano a colourful show of flowers for the Festival of Britain.

Reginald Gamble examines the hive to see how the bees have come through the winter and prepares them for the spring.

Frances Perry spring cleans the rock garden and advises window-box gardeners on how they can plan a Festival display.

(to 16.00)

Goodbye 1950
Children's Newsreel presents specially selected stories from the year 1950.

5.30-6.00 'The Commonwealth of Nations
A film explaining the nature of the British Commonwealth as it to today. A representative from each member country tells the story of his own land.

Robert MacDermot reports on his visit behind the scenes of the Festival of Britain to see how Britain's biggest 'show' is progressing.
Artists and designers come to the studio to show scale models of the South Bank Exhibition, the Festival Pleasure Gardens, and some of the exhibits that will be seen by visitors from all over the world.
Introduced by Gerald Barry, Director-General of the Festival of Britain.

A romantic ballet by Fokine to music by Chopin.
with Violetta Elvin, Marjorie Tallchief, Svetlana Beriosova, George Skibine.
Corps de Ballet selected for the occasion by Felicity Gray and rehearsed by Lydia Sokolova.
(Violetta Elvin appears by permission of the General Administrator, Covent Garden Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Ltd.; Svetlana Beriosova by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells)

An unrehearsed discussion on topics of the week.
Chairman: Frank Byers
Speakers: Robert Boothby M.P., W. J. Brown, Tom Driberg M.P., Dingle Foot

The Fourteen Stations of the Cross tell the story of the Passion and Death of our Lord followed by a short Service of meditation and prayer conducted by Father Agnellus Andrew, O.F.M., and sung by the choir from the Brompton Oratory under the direction of Henry Washington.
(The Stations of the Cross are carved by Anton Dupre and shown by courtesy of the owners)

(sound only)