Story: "A Surprise for the King"
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)
with Peter Woods
Weather
with Percy Thrower from Bressingham, Norfolk
In these unique gardens Percy Thrower meets Alan Bloom and discusses with him the use of hardy border plants in the average garden. Alan Bloom is well known for his lifelong interest in and work on, the informal layout of 'island beds' and the choice of hardy border plants requiring the minimum of attention.
A series of three film reports by Trevor Philpott
These days, with spacemen, cowboys, and secret agents crowding into the sitting-room every night, the travelling circus fights against the odds. But there are still some youngsters to whom it's the most exciting world of all, the only way to live.
This film features two oddly paired young men who decided to build their own circus and take it on the road. It's a story of a new-born road show struggling to stay alive on faith, stubbornness and sweat. It may not be the Greatest Show on Earth-but it's a sort of miracle all the same.
Written and produced by Trevor Philpott
Otto Klemperer conducts the complete cycle in sequence with the New Philharmonia Orchestra led by Emanuel Hurwitz
Tonight: Symphony No 1, in C major; Symphony No 2, in D major
Otto Klemperer, as the leading Beethoven conductor of the day, celebrated in 1970 the-bicentenary of the composer's birth with these performances, recorded at public concerts in the Royal Festival Hall. It was the last time he conducted the complete cycle of nine Beethoven symphonies; for earlier this year Klemperer, now 87 years old, announced his retirement from the concert platform. The programmes are now repeated to mark the occasion of his retirement.
"The series has been as valuable in its own way as Kenneth Clark's 'Civilisation'" (Daily Mail)
Colin Welland and Ian Wooldridge continue their fresh look at the world of sport.
The Belligerent Snow Man
John Snow, son of a vicar, writes poetry, collects antiques, bowls bumpers, produces incidents and is the fast bowler most feared by Australia.
As the Test series sways in the balance John Arlott talks with Snow about himself, art and cricket against a backcloth of action and reaction.
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