Listings
: Gardening Club
Percy Thrower's guest today is C.H. Hammer, the treasurer of the Alpine Garden Society, who discusses rock gardens and suggests plants for them.Percy Thrower plants sweet peas. early spring vegetables, replants garden mint, and demonstrates the treatment of cyclamen and azaleas that have finished flowering.
"Report from Wisley" by Francis Hanger, Curator of the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens.
(A BBC telerecording)
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: Racing at Newbury
BBC Television Outside Broadcast cameras pay a further visit to this Berkshire racecourse.2.30 Thatcham Selling Handicap Plate over two miles
3.0 Newbury Spring Cup over one mile
3.30 John Porter Stakes over one mile and a half
Clive Graham identifies the runners and riders in the paddock before each race.
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: Sir Alexander Korda (1893-1956)
A film programme of his outstanding contribution to British films.Introduced by Kenneth More.
Told by Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Flora Robson, Margaretta Scott, Sir Ralph Richardson, Vivien Leigh, Muir Mathieson, Sir Carol Reed, Ann Todd. David Lean and concluded by Sir Laurence Olivier with scenes from some of his films: "The Private Life of Henry VIII", "The Ghost Goes West", "Things to Come", "Rembrandt", "Fire Over England", "Lady Hamilton", "The Third Man", "The Sound Barrier" "Summer Madness" and "Richard III".
(Scenes from the films televised by courtesy of London Film Productions, Ltd.; who co-operated with the BBC in preparing the programme)
(Previously televised on March 4)
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: Parmesan
A film on the making of this famous cheese.: Children's Television: Whirligig
Introduced by Humphrey Lestocq and Mr. Turnip.including:
Box of Tricks
with Geoffrey Robinson.
Musical Adventures
with Henry Zeisel and his Orchestra.
Can We Help You?
by Desmond O'Donovan.
[Starring] Peter Hawkins
with James Ottaway as Clibber, Raymond Rollett as Sly.
Rolf Harris with Willoughby
(Henry Zeisel and his Orchestra are appearing at the Casanova and Don Juan Clubs, London)
(to 18.00)
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: Today's Sport
Presenting stop-press news and some of today's big sporting moments on film.Introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme.
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: In Town Tonight
Interesting people who are In Town Tonight interviewed by John Ellison.(Simultaneous broadcast with the London, Midland, North, and West of England Home Services)
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: Saturday-Night Out
Come with 'The Man with the Mike'See things happen!, As they happen!, Where they happen!
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: My Friend Charles: Episode 6
A Francis Durbridge serial in six episodes.[Starring] Stephen Murray
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: Saturday Comedy Hour: The Jimmy Wheeler Show
with Jimmy Wheeler, Morton Fraser and his Harmonica Rascals, Thora Hird, Ravic and Babs, Doreen Hume, Ronnie Carroll, Marion Keene, The Pamela Kail Dancers.Contributors
: Movie Museum: The Woman
An early Western film, which is unusual in that it centres on a human drama instead of situations mainly concerned with men and horses.: Mary O'Hara
with her harp in a programme of Irish songs and music.Contributors
: Sports Special
Today's Sport on Your Screen TonightOutside Broadcast and Sportsview Unit film cameras bring you a nation-wide coverage of today's sporting highlights.
Introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme.
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