Today's picture - the BBC at the Chelsea Flower Show in 1939

1939 at the Chelsea Flower Show

We're going to start to dip into the BBC's quite awe-inspiring picture library (mysteriously named 'Elvis') for a daily picture here on the blog. To get us going, here's a photograph take during a TV outside broadcast in 1939, during the BBC's first phase of television experimentation, before it was shut down for the duration of the Second World War. In the picture you'll see Elizabeth Cowell, one of the BBC's first TV presenters, and gardener and broadcasting legend C.H. Middleton.

Steve Bowbrick, Interactive Editor, Radio 3