TV and radio

The Food Programme

BBC Radio 4, 12.30 to 1pm

Local food culture in Shropshire, from Michelin-starred Ludlow to the Asian and African market stalls of Telford.

17 November

Woman's Hour Drama - Why Don't You Stop Talking?

BBC Radio 4, 10.45 to 11am each weekday

Poet, dramatist and novelist Jackie Kay dramatises five of her short stories that explore women's roles as mothers, daughters, lovers and mistresses, showing how outer change and transformation are the consequences of what women hide within themselves.

On the Beach

BBC Radio 4, 3.45 to 4pm each weekday

Beaches have an historic and monumental value for Britons. In these five programmes, people tell the story of their relationship to a particular beach and explain why they do like to be beside the seaside. They include writer Roger Deakin, who visits Jaywick near Clacton in Essex, where he relives the memory of his first holiday after the Second World War and muses on the joys of sea swimming, and Paulette Randall, director of Tawala, the black theatre company, who revisits Dymchurch in Kent and remembers the church outings she went on as a child from Brixton in south London.