The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
With Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain.
With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Rabbi Lionel Blue.
Polly Toynbee interviews leading public figures. 3: Lord Woolf. Master of the Rolls.
With Melvyn Bragg and guests. Producer Olivia Seligman
A look back at the headlines of 50 years ago today. A Dakota aircraft crashes at Croydon Airport killing 12 passengers. Judge Ralph Windham is kidnapped in Palestine and American gangster Al Capone dies. Producer Tabitha Morgan
Introduced by Jenni Murray. "Special Needs" with a difference -
Karen Deco examines how gifted pupils are catered for in schools. Serial: Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers. read by Sian Thomas and abridged in 12 parts by Meg Clarke (3).
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie E-MAIL: Womans.hour@bbc.co.uk
Vincent Duggleby takes your calls on topical issues that affect your finances.
Producer Frances Macdonald
LINES OPEN from 10.00am
With Mark Whittaker.
Ned Sherrin hosts the general knowledge music quiz. Heat Four. With Wendy Hilary from Chinnor in Oxon, Robin Taylor from Leamington Spa, and Geoff Wood from Harrogate. Producer Steve Doherty
Repeated Wednesday 6.30pm
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from Friday
By Lee Hall. Final part.
Spoonface (played by Becky Simpson) is seven years old, autistic and terminally ill with cancer. She is fascinated by opera and by the way her parents behave. With the help of the cleaner, Mrs Spud, she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life.
With Laurie Taylor ,
Lynne Walker listens to the first issue in a new series of recordings of the choral works of Benjamin Britten , and a new play by Wally K Daly about Pope John Paul I on Radio 4. Producer Julian May
Revised repeat 9.30pm
By Jonathan Treitel. A love affair starts in Greenwich Village. And it involves a couple of geckos ... Read by William Hope. Producer Duncan Minshull
With Chris Lowe and Jon Sopel.
Join Chairman Nicholas Parsons and guests Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo and Julian Clary at the Jersey Arts Centre as they try to talk for a minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
Repeated from Saturday 12.25pm
The Grundys are accountable. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm
Repeated from Friday
By David Pownall.
History, like everything else these days, has become a commodity- and so it happens that a statue of Jeremy, a 17th-century archbishop, is commissioned to adorn a Surrey town square. Surprisingly, however, it is Jeremy who raises his voice loudest in protest. With Roger Allam as Dyson and David Ryall as Jeremy, with Don McCorkindale, Oliver Senton, Derek Waring, Peter Yapp and Annabel Mullion Director Eoin O'Callaghan (Repeat)
Hermione Lee asks five women writers to look back at an early work. 3: Nadine Gordimer on A Guest of Honour.
Producer Erin Riley Repeat
With Robin Lustig.
Nancy Mitford 's celebrated story of the upper classes in the 1930s. Abridged in ten parts. Read by Anna Massey (1). Producer Cherry Cookson Repeat
