20/11/2011

Synopsis

Stewart Henderson makes his selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio

In Pick of The Week, Children In Need is on the agenda as Stewart Henderson hears from a teenager who was taken into care at four having been found foraging in bins for food. And, as a children's poet whose work appears in many anthologies, he'll also be paying close attention to new Waterstone's Managing Director James Daunt as he gives his quietly impassioned views on children's reading and the closure of local libraries. Plus, war time despatches from one of London's top hotels tell of 'How Britain Can Take It'...by sharing champagne with a Duke of the realm in an extremely comfortable air raid shelter.

The Devil in Music - Radio 3
Queen Victoria's iPod - Radio 4
The British Germans - Radio 4
The West End Front - Radio 4
The Freedom Trail - Radio 4
Children in Need - BBC Radio Shropshire
Brief Lives - Radio 4
Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats - Radio 4
In and Out of The Kitchen - Radio 4
Four Thought - Radio 4
Wilson, Kepple and Several Bettys - Radio 4
Richard Herring's Objective - Radio 4

Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw
Producer: Helen Lee.