Percy Thrower's guest today is Ernest Baines, rose foreman of the National Rose Society's trial grounds at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, who pays another visit to the Club to talk about seasonal work to be done in the rose garden, including the control of pests and diseases. He also demonstrates the method of budding roses.
Francis Hanger, Curator of the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens at Wisley, talks about grapes for the cold greenhouse and the warm wall.
Percy Thrower demonstrates the thinning-out of apples and pears and how to layer border carnations. He also deals with the pricking out of wallflowers and the potting of cineraria seedlings.
(A BBC telerecording)
A visit to Coatbridge Baths. Lanarkshire, to see the second part of this two-day event.
Organised by the British Amateur Athletic Board in conjunction with the News of the World.
From the White City Stadium, London.
The first day's play at St. Helen's Ground, Swansea.
Butterworth Time
with Peter Butterworth, Janet Brown, Peter Claughton, The Buttercups and Clifford Stanton.
Music played by the Ronald Cass Trio
The Gordon Honour: 6: The Mutiny Candlestick
(First series)
Written and produced by Shaun Sutton.
The adventures of a candlestick in seven episodes.
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on August 9, 1955)
From St. Helen's Ground, Swansea.
(to 18.30 app.)
followed by The Weather
Presenting stop-press news and some of today's big sporting moments on film.
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore.
'The Man with the Mike' on the spot with outside broadcast cameras invites you to
See things happen!, When they happen!, Where they happen!
A weekly series edited by Peter Webber and Derek Burrell-Davis.
Some stories of a London policeman by Ted Willis and Rex Edwards
[Starring] Jack Warner
starring Jimmy Wheeler with Thora Hird, Sid Krofft, The Three Rethlems, Ken Wilson, Doreen Hume, Bryan Johnson, Marion Keene, The Shepherd Boys, The Pamela Kail Dancers.
(Sid Krofft is appearing at the Pigalle Restaurant, London)
A lucky hand at cards wins for W. S. Hart the heiress of the local saloon.
Robert MacDermot endeavours to control the imagination of the storytellers who tonight include Nancy Spain, Count Alexis Bobrinskoy, and two surprise guests.
BBC Television's Saturday-night sports page introduced by Cliff Michelmore.
