With Rabbi YY Rubinstein.
With John Humphrys , James Naughtie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
Peter Sissons puts listeners' questions to Conservative Michael Howard. PHONE: [number removed] (local call rates apply). Lines open from 8.00am
SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST with BBC1
The news of 50 years ago today. Princess Elizabeth celebrates her
21st birthday in South Africa. In the United States, it is believed a single cigarette may have caused last week's explosion in Texas. Producer Susan Greenhalgh Series editor Lindsay Leonard
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: Miriam Margolyes reads the llth episode of Henry James 's novel The Portrait of a Lady, abridged in 20 parts by Doreen Estall.
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
With Vincent Duggleby. Producer Marcia Hughes
LINES OPEN from 10.00am
With Mark Whittaker.
A nationwide general knowledge contest. First Round - South of England. Chairman Robert Robinson. Including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Producer Richard Edis
Repeated Wednesday 6.30pm
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from Friday
By Nan Woodhouse. The story of William Shakespeare 's younger daughter. A loner who is at odds with the confined world of early-17th-century Stratford-upon-Avon, Judith yearns to be a part of her father's life. with Jillie Meers , Stephen Critchlow , Ann Beach , Colleen Prendergast and Thomas Connor. Director Tracey Neale Repeat
With Laurie Taylor and guests.
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Lynne Walker sees Jatinder Verma transpose the setting of the play Dance Like a Man from India to
Britain as the play opens at the Leicester Haymarket, and jazzers
Stacey Kent and her quintet perform live in the studio. Producer Alison Perks
Revised repeat at 9.30pm
By Elizabeth Buchan. The gardener, a grieving widower, loves the soil and his first wife. "Waste not, want not", he says. Read by Christopher Scott. Producer Lizzie Hart
With Kevin Boucquet and Charlie Lee-Potter .
Repeated from Saturday 12.25pm
Elizabeth is not in a party mood. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm
With Derek Cooper.
Revised repeat from Friday
By Gary Mitchell.
In Belfast, the wife of a loyalist prisoner is forced to allow her home to become a storage place for guns, and then has a sudden revelation as to how to use them. with Simon McGill , Alan McKee , Conor Grimes and Brenda Winter. Director Pam Brighton
Caroline Sarll 's four-part celebration of our extremities.
3: Navel Gazing
Producer Cathy Drysdale Repeat
Revised repeat from 4.05pm
With Isabel Hilton.
This week marks the 50th anniversary of Willa Cather 's death. Her Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel, abridged in 12 parts by Katie Campbell , is read by Ian Porter.
1: Nineteen-year-old Claude Wheeler struggles to find a meaning in life. Producer Angela Dalton
The first of six programmes in which Sue MacGregor puts questions to
Christopher Cook , Philippa Gregory , Janet Suzman and Martin Wainwright on subjects ranging from pubs and opera to Shakespeare and the National Gallery.
Producer Gillian Hush Repeat
A six-part serial by Christopher Lee in which two intelligence officers investigate the death of an elderly priest. Starring Amanda Redman as Alex Soames , with Dudley Sutton as Chief Inspector Arthur Guscott , and Christopher Benjamin as Henry Colvil.
Producer Pete Atkin Repeat
Nick Hornby 's hilarious bestseller, abridged in ten parts by Chris Wallis and read by Alan Davies.
1: When Laura, his partner of almost ten years, finally leaves him for the bloke upstairs, Rob Fleming does not cry - he reorganises his record collection.
Producer Chris Wallis
