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5 October Countryfile

Countryfile

(BBC 1, 11am to 12noon)

This first programme in the new series examines the crisis facing rural primary schools and reveals the unique bargain struck by one Welsh village.

Book Club (BBC Radio 4, 4 to 4.30pm)

Melvyn Burgess, one of the most controversial children's writers in the UK, discusses Junk, his stark novel about teenage heroin addiction and homelessness that won both the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Carnegie Medal, with a group of younger readers in his hometown of Manchester.

6 October The Child Migrants (BBC Radio 4, 9 to 9.30am)

In this final programme, former child migrants who have been searching for their birth mothers for decades tell their story. Many have battled with abuse, neglect, a sense of abandonment and feelings of a life of lost opportunity. Charles Wheeler meets one who has moved back to the UK and lives just a few minutes from his mother's home. Although he has seen her from a distance and failed to make contact with her, he still lives in hope.

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