Practical help for the housewife.
Presented by Joan Gilbert.

In Your Garden
Fred Streeter describes the work to be done in the garden this month.

Knitting
James Norbury shows a selection of knitted spring fashions.

Cookery
Ann Hardy shows how to make a lemon meringue pie.
Recipe on page 27

For the Very Young
Charles E. Stidwill tells the story.
Sam and Elizabeth Williams make the pictures
(A BBC Television film)
(to 16.15)

Children's Newsreel

The Young Cyrus
by Rhoda Power.
(Second performance: March 21)
This play is based on a story by the Greek historian Herodotus, who lived in the fifth century B.C. Astyages, King of the Medes, is troubled by dreams that the child born to his daughter and the King of Persia will one day rule the Kingdom in his place. When the child is born he summons his soothsayer and, as a result of his prophecy, Harpagus, the King's confidant, is sent to do away with the young Cyrus. But Harpagus does not relish his task...

(to 17.55)

News- Views-People-Places
A Midland Magazine.
Introduced by James Pestridge.
(Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 19.10)

A play by Anatole de Grunwald.
[Starring] Peter Cushing, Daphne Slater and Walter Fitzgerald
The action takes place in 1816 at 13 Chapel Street, Park Lane, London; at The Stein, Brighton; in the garden of John Buckland's house in Sussex; and at Almack's Club, London.
(Second performance)

Join in the fun at a West of England Square Dance Party.
Dancing to the Jolly Waggoners' Square Dance Band
Caller, Nibs Matthews
with interludes from Pat Shaw, Bert Middleton
Master of Ceremonies, Bernard Fishwick
(Nibs Matthews appears by permission of the English Folk Dance and Song Society)

The Saarland Government's case is presented in a special film. British and German journalists examine it critically.

The Experts:
Sir Mortimer Wheeler Professor of Archaeology, University of London
R. E. S. Bruce-Mitford Assistant Keeper, British Medieval Antiquities, British Museum
B. R. S. Megaw Director of the Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man
v. The Challenger: National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
Chairman, Glyn Daniel, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge

(sound only)