Introduced by Robert Robinson

John Updike began writing as a staff man in The New Yorker. Since then he has written a string of successful novels - such as "Rabbit Run", "Couples", and "A Month of Sundays". "Picked-Up Pieces" is a new collection of his non-fiction and in an interview filmed in his apartment in Boston he talks about The New Yorker magazine, "Couples" and some of the things which have preoccupied him - sex, clergymen and success.

Also Richard Condon, author of "The Manchurian Candidate" and food columnist, and Margaret Powell, who wrote "Below Stairs", review a selection of recent books on cookery.