Rochdale GQT broadcast date revealed

The celebrated panel of gardening experts, with Eric Robson (stood) and the team; Christine Walkden, Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew

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On Monday 4 November, BBC Radio 4 Gardeners’ Question Time recorded a show at the Rochdale Pioneers Museum.

The show will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 15 November at 3.00pm and again on Sunday 17 November at 2.00pm.

The celebrated panel of gardening experts tacked questions put to them by local gardening enthusiasts, with Eric Robson in the chair and the team being made up of Christine Walkden, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood.

Gardenersʼ Question Time is a Radio 4 institution, attracting over 2 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 Rochdale Pioneers Museum show was fully booked with an audience of around 70 largely made up of people from local towns and villages including Rochdale, Littleborough, Norden, Bamford, Whiteworth, Milnrow, Rossendale and Todmorden.

Ticket holders arrived at 5.30pm and submitted their questions to the show’s producers. The producers then selected the questions. 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.

The recording of the show began just after 6pm. Stephen Yeo, chairman of Trustees for the Co-operative Heritage Trust which manages the Rochdale Pioneers Museum asked the first question.