A weekly date with Percy Thrower and his gardening friends.

Today he advises on: Making out the seed list for 1958, Planting a standard rose, Winter spraying of fruit trees, Putting supports to bulbs coming into flower
His guest this week is: B.E. Price who shows how he sets about designing and laying-out a medium-sized garden. With the help of the Midland Film Unit viewers can follow the process from the time when the builders leave the site to the final planting-out.
Produced by John Farrington in the BBC's Midland Television Studios

Today the Television news feature which has been reviewing the events of each week looks back over a whole year - a year that might be called Year One in the Space Calendar.
The contributors to the regular Sunday Review are in the studio to recall, with film, the story of 1957 from January to December - from Satellites to the St. James's Theatre, from Antarctica to Asian Flu.
Introduced by Kenneth Kendall and Richard Baker.

Alan Loveday plays Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D with the BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader, J.Mouland Begbie)
Conducted by Colin Davis
Introduced by John Russell.
From the BBC's television studio in Scotland

The Brains Trust meets this afternoon at Bishopthorpe, York, the home of the Archbishop of York.
The members this week are: The Archbishop of York, Ruth Pitter, Alan Bullock, Professor A.R. Gemmell
Question-Master, Norman Fisher
Questions should be addressed to: The Brains Trust, [address removed]
Sound-track to be repeated on Monday at 3.30 (Home)

The country has been badly hit by drought. Local cattle are dying, and there is no water for the Circus. Elmer the inventor has a great idea for making rain and he and Corky go up in a balloon to try it out, but their experiment nearly brings disaster. It's Bimbo who finally solves the problem.

Adventures of a Boxer puppy.
Drawn by Tim.

by C.E. Webber
The exciting wartime adventure based on the novel by Ian Serraillier.

Hugh David brings to the studio people whose work helps to make it a wonderful world. Today he introduces Dorothy Alison and the headmistress of a school for deaf children.

(Extract from the film 'Thursday's Children' shown by courtesy of World Wide Pictures Ltd. and Mores Films Ltd.)

What should we believe? How should we behave?

Canon C.E. Raven, The Abbot of Downside, Professor Roger Wilson, John Arlott answer questions put to them by members of the Folk House, Bristol.
From the BBC's West of England television studio

[Starring] Gloria Nord in scenes from Tom Arnold's presentation of Cinderella on Ice
From the Sports Stadium, Brighton.

Television's most popular panel game
with Isobel Barnett, Barbara Kelly, Gilbert Harding, David Nixon
In the chair, Eamonn Andrews

(David Nixon is appearing in 'Cinderella' at the Hippodrome, Manchester)
("What's My Line?" was devised by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman and is televised by arrangement with CBS and Maurice Winnick)

(See panel and pages 3 and 4)

by William Shakespeare
[Starring] John Neville
Scene: England; afterwards France

(John Neville appears by permission of the Old Vic Theatre Trust)

Concert Study No.3 in D Flat...Liszt
Rondo in C...Bartok
L'Isle joyeuse...Debussy

"Fix on his work thy steadfast eye
So shall thy work be done"
Speaker, The Rev. Dr. Leslie D. Weatherhead, Minister of the City Temple, London

Followed by Weather and Close Down