A weekly date with Percy Thrower and his gardening friends.

This week he advises on: Inspecting apples and pears in store; bringing the earliest bulbs out to the light; pinching the tops out of schizanthus to encourage them to be bushy; making a compost heap with leaves and other garden refuse so plentiful at this time of the year.
His guest today is: R. E. Price who demonstrates the basic principles of constructing a rock garden and discusses ways of protecting tender alpine plants during the winter.
Produced by John Farrington in the BBC's Midland television studio

A Japanese tragedy
Adapted for television and produced by George R. Foa

The action takes place in Nagasaki.

London Philharmonic Orchestra
(Led by Harold Parfitt)
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
(A BBC telerecording previously televised on July 4)

Seven days in thirty minutes
A Television news feature recalling the week's outstanding events on film, with personalities, reports, and expert analysis from studios at home and abroad.
Introduced by Richard Baker.

The Circus is in competition with a rival outfit for the contract to play an important town. When Big Tim produces his star attraction, an enormous hippopotamus named Hortense, the contract is in the bag; but his enemies are not easily beaten, and if only they could get rid of Hortense they might yet save the day.

Assisted by Sweep and Harry Corbett.

by Robert Louis Stevenson
Adaptation by Joy Harington
[Starring] Bernard Miles
with Valentine Dyall and Richard Palmer

(Douglas Blackwell is appearing in "No Time for Sergeants" at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)

The Rev. Paul Morton-George gives some advice in answer to one of your questions: What is the best way to study the Bible?
Send your questions on a postcard to: What's Your Question?, [address removed]

(to 18.15)

We all have our favourite hymns, often intimately associated with personal experiences. Tonight a number of such well-known hymns have been selected and you hear the stories connected with them.
Introduced by Hugh David.
Hymns sung by the BBC Welsh Chorus accompanied by the BBC Welsh Orchestra
Conducted by Arwel Hughes

With Yvonne Arnaud, Jimmy Clitheroe
Assisted by Bert Linden, Rowland Jones, Laurie Payne, George Betton, Billy Sutton, Amanda Barrie, The George Mitchell Singers and the British Concert Orchestra.
(Leader, Reginald Morley)
Associate Conductor, Marcus Dods

(Rowland Jones appears by permission of the Sadler's Wells Opera Company)

A play cycle by Iain MacCormick.
Starring Patrick Barr and Glyn Houston.
The action of the play is set in the District of Dalpore, India, in 1857.
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told by Hugh Gibb and Tom Harrisson.
Six films about the people and animals who live in the British Colony of Sarawak.

The ballet by C. Nuitter and A. Saint-Leon
Adapted and produced by Margaret Dale

A border village in Galicia about 1800

The music, recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Hugh Maguire)
Conducted by John Lanchbery

(Nadia Nerina, Gerd Larsen, Julia Farron, Donald Britton, Peter Wright, John Lanchbery appear by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.; Joan Elvin, Bob Stevenson, Robert Harvey, Garry Smith are in "Damn Yankees" at the London Coliseum)

Robert Helpmann and Nadia Nerina in the ballet "Coppelia" (The Girl with the Enamel Eyes)

In an age when superstitious people were attracted to the seemingly miraculous discoveries of scientists, and hypnotism was the new vogue, all the villagers regarded Dr. Coppelius and his mysterious experiments with suspicion and fear. But they could not ignore the lovely young girl whom they took to be his daughter, Coppelia. She could always be seen in his window, apparently reading a book, and there was something strangely compelling about her slender figure and her great shining eyes. Franz, a village boy engaged to Swanilda, saluted Coppelia one day, and she apparently returned his greeting-to the annoyance of Swanilda, who set out to discover who her rival was.
At 10.10

The Bishop of Bristol, the Rt. Rev. F.A. Cockin, D.D. speaks from a long experience of broadcasting.
From a BBC West of England studio
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