With John Barton , Archdeacon of Aston.

With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Rabbi Lionel Blue.

Douglas Adams travelled to the remote island of Komodo in search of dragons, equipped only with a zoologist, a BBC producer and a dead goat. Each day this week he reads his account of what happened.
Abridged and produced by Paul Kent

With Melvyn Bragg and guests. Producer Olivia Seligman

The news of 50 years ago today. Editor Lindsay Leonard

Jenni Murray celebrates the sharp-tongued sirens of soap opera.
Serial: Jan Francis reads the first episode of Deborah Moggach 's new novel Close Relations, abridged in 12 parts by Meg Clarke.
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk

A celebration of the skylark in words and music. The writers include C. Day Lewis, Hopkins, Meredith, Shelley, Seumus O'Sullivan, Isaac Rosenberg, and Henry Lamont Simpson, with music by Vaughan Williams, Delius, Carmichael and Schubert.
Readers Simon Williams and Lucy Fleming.

With Mark Whittaker.

First Round - Midlands and East
Anglia. Chairman Robert Robinson. Producer Richard Edis
Repeated Wednesday 6.30pm

With Nick Clarke.

Repeated from Friday

Tom Georgeson stars as jazz-loving DI Charlie Resnick in John Harvey 's three-part dramatisation of his own novel. 2: When a male nurse is attacked, all the clues point to a hospital connection. with Denys Hawthorne. Nicholas Boulton ,
John Simm. James Taylor. Zulema Dene , Don McCorkindale , Peter Kenny. George Parsons. Philip Weaver. Gillian Bevan , Alice Arnold , Colleen Prendergast , Stella Duffy , John Hartley , Roger May and Ann Beach.
Song written by Liz Simcock and performed by Trevor Watkis and Gillian Bevan
Director David Hunter Repeat

With Laurie Taylor. Anna MacNamee discovers the fans who are still crazy about the game show It's a Knockout. Editor Nadine Grieve
PHONE: (0171) [number removed]
E-MAIL: Afternoon.Shift@bbc.co.uk

Lynne Walker sees a new production of Wagner's Tannhauser at Opera
North and the new Glen Tetley ballet at Covent Garden.
Producer Miriam Newman. Revised rpt at 9.30pm

By Alison Dunn , read by Ri Richards.
Ida Buckley , fresh from the city, wishes for the knowledge of gardening women. Producer Caroline Sarll

With Charlie Lee-Potter and Chris Lowe.

Repeated from Saturday 12.25pm

Tony is adamant.
Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm

With Derek Cooper.

By Nick Burbridge.
Alice is instinctively aware of the attraction between her husband and the new first violinist of his string quartet. But her son's illness soon brings everything to a head. with Lisa Orgolini , Eva Stuart and Jonathan Keeble. Cellist Gabrielle Amherst Director Andy Jordan Repeat

The Barber of Catania. In the early sixties, James McNeish travelled the world, recording his experiences on tape. In the first of three programmes looking back on those travels, he meets a guitar-playing barber from Sicily and discovers a disturbing approach to local exams.
Producer Bella Bannerman Repeat

Revised repeat from 4.05pm

With Isabel Hilton.

Part ten of Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, abridged in 12 parts by Katie Campbell, and read by Ian Porter.
Producer Angela Dalton

Sue MacGregor plunders Britain's cultural inheritance to test Denise Coffey
, Christopher Cook , Philippa Gregory and Michael Schmidt. Producer Gillian Hush Repeat

The last of a six-part serial by Christopher Lee in which two intelligence officers investigate the death of an elderly priest. Starring
Christopher Benjamin as Henry Colvil , Amanda Redman as Alex Soames , and Dudley Sutton as chief inspector Arthur Guscott.
Betrayal and Judgement.
Mrs Wedlock 's role in the mystery has put her in mortal danger.
Producer Pete Atkin Repeat

Patricia Hodge reads the first part of Kate Atkinson 's story of family life above a pet shop in York, abridged in ten parts by Rosemary Goring. Producer Chris Wallis Repeat