Dig down on experts’ advice

Fresh from Any Questions? broadcasting live from Spalding, another BBC radio show is coming to the town.

Gardeners’ Question Time is helping Springfields Horticultural Society to celebrate its 60th anniversary by recording one of its hugely popular shows at the site.

Springfields Events Centre will host the recording at 5pm on Thursday, June 30.

A spokesman for Springfields Horticultural Society, said: “The celebrated panel of gardening experts, with Peter Gibbs in the chair, will be tackling the questions put to them by local gardening enthusiasts.

“Gardeners’ Question Time is a Radio Four institution, attracting two million listeners a week.

“Recorded in a different location each week, this long-standing radio programme has answered well over 30,000 questions since its inception in 1947.

“The panel members have been guests of a diverse range of gardening clubs and other organisations; including recording at the top of Mount Snowdon, broadcasting from Buckingham Palace and answering questions from inside Number 10 Downing Street.

“The panel never see the questions before the recording.

“Their encyclopaedic, seemingly effortless answers are completely spontaneous and reveal their huge experience and depth of gardening knowledge.

“Being on the GQT panel is not for the faint hearted!”

Tickets are free of charge and are available to purchase from our Eventbrite page: https://bit.ly/4t9gSFd

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