With the Rev Ernest Rea.

With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Bishop James Jones.

Five authors recall recent trips abroad. 4: Pescara. With Tim Parks. Producer Duncan Minshull Repeat

Melvyn Bragg 's guests this week are the former president of Israel, Chaim Herzog ; James Watson , joint discoverer of the structure of DNA;
Baroness Shirley Williams ; and Ariel Dorfman , author of Death and the Maiden. Producer Olivia Seligman

The news of fifty years ago today.

Jenni Murray meets the Canadian singer Jane Siberry. Serial: Human
Croquet. Emma Fielding reads the first part of Kate Atkinson 's story, abridged in 13 parts by Doreen Estall.
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk

With Vincent Duggleby. Producer Josh De La Mare LINES OPEN from 10.00am

With Mark Whittaker.

Ned Sherrin hosts the first semi-final. Producer Steve Doherty
Repeated Wednesday 6.30pm

With Nick Clarke.

Repeated from Friday

By Graham Swift. Dramatised in three parts by Steve Chambers.
Starring Roy Marsden as Tom Crick.

One summer's day in 1943, lock-keeper Henry Crick finds a drowned body. Forty years later, his son Tom, a history teacher, begins to tell the strange story of his Fenland family.

With Laurie Taylor. Including the story of a top Chicago thriller writer whose recent bizarre death might have sprung from one of his own novels. Editor Sharon Banoff. PHONE: (0171) [number removed]. E-MAIL: Afternoon.Shift@bbc.co.uk

Lynne Walker sees two very different versions of the mystery plays and talks to the pianist Joanna MacGregor. Producer Miriam Newman Revised repeat at 9.30pm

Susannah York reads Deborah Moggach's story.
Producer Pam Fraser Solomon
(Susannah York stars in Envious Casca, Wednesday 12.25pm)
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With Charlie Lee-Potter and Chris Lowe.

Repeated from Saturday 12.25pm

Mike comes to the rescue. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm

Derek Cooper gets cooking in the Rhondda Valley.
Repeated from Friday

By Nick Stafford.

A brother and sister discover their estate is bankrupt. With their farm tenants also under pressure, the situation soon becomes unbearable.

First of four audio letters in which two men describe their search for a fresh start in life. Simon and Andy were high-flying middle managers with young families - Andy in Lanchester and Simon in the Adelaide hills of Australia.
But they decided to pack in their jobs, swap houses and begin again. Producer Marc Jobst Repeat

Revised repeat of 4.05pm

With Isabel Hilton.

Rudolph Walker reads Trinidadian writer Sam Selvon's classic account of the first West Indians to come to Britain in the fifties, abridged in five parts by Margaret Busby. Moses Aloetta, a Trinidadian in London, goes to meet Henry Oliver, alias Sir Galahad, at the boat-train.

Pole Cat. Lionel Kelleway and John Messenger go looking for this cousin of the weasel and badger in the first of six classic Living Worlds. Producer Mary Colwell (Repeat)
11.00 Education Matters (LW only) Presented by Philippa Dolley. Producer Clare McGinn. PHONE: the Education Matters Hotline on [number removed]

Michael Hordern reads J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic, abridged in 15 parts by Brian Sibley. Repeat