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26 October The Food Programme

The Food Programme

BBC Radio 4, 12.30 to 1pm

A look at malt, an ingredient ingested in many forms in most people's diets, from breakfast cereals to whisky.

Testing Times

BBC Radio 4, 5.40 to 5.55pm

In the first programme of a new series, Michael Rosen learns of divisions in families caused by one child getting better results than a sibling, examines the growing dissatisfaction with SAT testing in English primary schools and discovers that the stigma of failing the 11-plus is sometimes never shaken off.

27 October

Counting Stars

BBC Radio 4, 3.30 to 3.45pm weekdays

Five short stories from the collection Counting Stars by David Almond, the award-winning writer of Skellig, winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the 1999 Carnegie Medal. The atmospheric, semi-autobiographical stories feature a young boy growing up in Felling near Newcastle, and have as their themes the acquisition of knowledge and the powerful bonds of family.

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