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Peggy puts pressure on Jack to make Ronnie happy in the final visit of the week to Albert Square.

Bradley invites Stacey for a drink but, rather than having the good time she was hoping for, Stacey is saddened when Bradley explains the real reason that he asked her out.

Meanwhile, Whitney sets out to find Debra's house and is shocked by what she discovers.

Peggy is played by Barbara Windsor, Jack by Scott Maslen, Ronnie by Samantha Janus, Bradley by Charlie Clements, Stacey by Lacey Turner, Whitney by Shona McGarty and Debra by Ruth Gemmell.

KS3

Author Malorie Blackman concludes My Life In Verse by exploring the poems and poets who have inspired her. From William Blake and Benjamin Zephaniah to Miles Coverdale and Jackie Kay, she considers how poetry has helped her through the best and worst times of her life.

A prolific author of fiction for children and young people, Malorie is the first black British writer to have sold more than a million books. Best known for the Noughts And Crosses series, set in a world in which current racial divides are turned on their head, it contains many echoes of Malorie's own childhood and teens.

In the face of preconceptions about what a black girl from south London could and could not do in life, Malorie struggled to find her way in the world. "Basically, we were considered to be factory fodder," she says.

There wasn't much poetry in Malorie's family home. Her father wanted her to keep her feet on the ground and her head out of the clouds, but she was drawn to poetry and sought it out in all its diverse forms. "It was always one of the first things I would reach for," she says.

From the lyrics of Marvin Gaye to Shakespeare and the Song Of Songs in the 1611 Bible, Malorie took poetry wherever she could find it. In the Eighties, the flowering of black British poetry came as a revelation, setting her on the road to becoming a novelist.

My Life In Verse is part of the BBC's Poetry Season on television, radio and online at bbc.co.uk/poetryseason.

CD4

Petroc Trelawny and Josie D'Arby introduce a magical evening of lieder/art song in front of a live audience at St David's Hall, Cardiff. This feast of singing takes place alongside the BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World 2009 competition, which brings 25 of the brightest talents from across the globe to Wales to compete in one of the world's most prestigious singing contests, the Final of which can be seen tomorrow.

The five finalists take to the stage as they compete for the Cardiff Singer Song Prize title. Who will delight the international panel of jurors and be named the winner of BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World Song Prize?

From the 20 singers who took part in the competition's recital rounds, the five selected for the final are now preparing their programmes to perform with piano accompaniment. All will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of opera superstar Bryn Terfel, who won the competition when it was called the Lieder Prize.

The jury is chaired by John Fisher, chief executive and artistic director of Welsh National Opera, and comprises Adam Gatehouse, Editor Live Music, BBC Radio 3; John Fisher; Kurt Moll; Ann Murray; and accompanist and lieder specialist Helmut Deutsch.

JW