With the Rev Gethin Abraham Williams.
With James Naughtie and John Humphrys.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Gabrielle Cox.
8.40 Yesterday In Parliament
With Nick Ross.
Producer Anne Peacock
LINES OPEN from 8.00am
By Joan Aiken. Lesley Joseph reads the second of four stories.
Melusina. A young girl has a curse placed upon her.
For details see Monday
Introduced by Jenni Murray. Serial: Cause Celeb (9) For details see yesterday
Presented by Geoff Watts. Including a visit to a new museum of psychiatry in Wakefield.
Producer Moray London. Rptd Sun 10.15pm
Russell Davies presents a six-part series about words and the way we speak. 5: Blootered. Russell Davies samples the language of drunkeness, north and south, and Loyd Grossman reveals the winners of the menu competition. Producer Cathy Drysdale
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
Listening right across the dial to poems inspired by radio. Why do the airwaves set poets alight? With Brendan Kennelly , Gillian Clarke , Robert Crawford , Kathleen Jamie , John Hartley Williams , Ken Smith , Hugo Williams and Alistair Elliot. Producer Tim Dee
Andrew Green presents asix-part series in which international musicians choose and discuss music describing the character and spirit of their native countries. This week,
Australian guitarist John Williams. Producer Gwen Hughes
With Daire Brehan. Editor Sharon Banoff
PHONE/ANSWERPHONE: (0171) [number removed]. E-MAIL: afternoon.shift@bbc.co.uk
Is the current spate of Jane Austen films simply a case of 'jobs for the girls"? In the week that sees the release of Emma
Thompson's adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, and with three versions of Emma in preparation, Paul Vaughan and guests consider Jane Austen as the mother of all our heroines.
Producer Beaty Rubens. Rvsd rpt 9.30pm
By Julia Darling. A lollipop lady loves babies. That must be why she knits baby clothes for the expectant mums who use her crossing.
Read by Charlie Hardwick. Producer Michael Fox
With Chris Lowe and Jackie Hardgrave.
The final part of Lucy Flannery 's sitcom about local government brings a German delegation, Star Trek fever and romance to Chesbury. With
Nelson David , John Duttine , James Grout , Rosy Fordham, Nick Hardy , Howard Lew Lewis, Toby Longworth , Jan Ravens ,
Vivienne Rochester and June Whitfield. Producer Liz Anstee Rpt
Caroline has a vision.
Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm
Reporter Liz Carney.
Producer Sharon Keatley. Rptd Sat 5.00pm
Presented by Peter Evans. Producer Adrian Washboume E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
Building the Web -Acquiring Language
Children are programmed to acquire language to a schedule which cannot be significantly speeded up. In the third of five lectures, Professor Jean Aitchison describes how children weave the strands of the language web while their parents worry that schools are not teaching the "standard language'.
With Peter White.
Producer Karen Turner. PHONE: (0171) [number removed]. FACTSHEET: send large sae to [address removed]
Revised repeat of 4.05pm
With Isabel Hilton.
Mark Lambert reads John B Keane 's story, abridged in ten parts by Pam Brighton and J B Keane.
2: A Hundred Fiddles on Every Site For details see yesterday
The week's events in the media. Repeated from Sunday 11.15am
By Don DeLillo. Part 2. For details see yesterday
