The news and the issues of the week in rural Britain.

With Canon Noel Vincent.

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

The last of three programmes in which Howell James and George Bridges , the men who ran John Major 's political office, look back at what really happened in the last three years of Conservative government. Producer Jenni Russell

Melvyn Bragg and guests engage in lively conversation.
Producer Olivia Seligman

Geoffrey Wheeler looks at the news of 50 years ago today. Producer Us Roberts

Introduced by Jenni Murray. Short story: Eileen Atkins reads The Girl with the Golden Ears by Jane Gardam. Managing editor Nadine Grieve
E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk

Vincent Duggleby takes listeners' calls on a topical issue affecting personal finance. i Producer Frances Macdonald i LINES OPEN from 10am

With Mark Whittaker.

! Lionel Kelleway presents the second ¡ semi-final of the natural history quiz.
From the home of the BBC Natural
History Unit in Bristol. Producer Grant Sonnex
Repeated Wednesday 6.30pm

, With Nick Clarke.

Repeated from Friday

Stephen Mulrine 's drama series continues with three new episodes. 2: Win Some, Lose Some. A Lake
District holiday beckons for Dr Wallace, but there is a tricky piece of evidence to be delivered at the end of it. with Meg Fraser , Elizabeth Bechman-Murray . Michael Perceval-Maxwell . Finlay Welsh, Liam Brennan and Martin Docherty Director Hamish Wilson

Laurie Taylor presents guests, topical discussion and lively features. Daily editor Keith Jones
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E-MAIL: Afternoon.Shift@bbc.co.uk

Lynne Walker takes in a new production of Monteverdi's opera The Coronation ofPoppea, with Sally Burgess and Michael Chance , produced by controversial director David Alden for the Welsh National Opera. Producer Stephen Hughes Revised repeat at 9.30pm

ByCandia McWilliam, read by Tracy Wiles.
Producer Sara Benaim

With Chris Lowe and Jon Sopel.

The final programme in the series of the antidote to panel games, from the Almeida Theatre in Islington. Repeated from Saturday 12.25pm

Eddie is in hot pursuit. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm

Derek Cooper discovers Korean food when he visits New Maiden in Surrey. He encounters real pot noodles, fermented bean pastes and Korean table manners.
Revised

By Alex Jones. The Western Front, December 1917, Court Martial.
Joseph Taylor maintains that he was commanded to lay down his arms and abandon the war by a vision of Jesus Christ in no-man's-land. with Anthony Pedley , John Webb.
Martin Hearn. Gareth Tudor Price. David Holt , Andy Hockley , Kim Durham , Marc Finn , Lise Stuart and Jim Hughes. Director Sue Wilson

Four writers explore a sensual experience which brings them intense pleasure. 3: Five O'Clock in the Afternoon by Timberlake Wertenbaker. Producer Beaty Rubens Repeat

Revised repeat from 4.05pm

With Isabel Hilton.

Anton Lesser reads Voltaire's classic satire of the 1700s. Translated by John Butt , abridged in eight parts by Andrew Simpson. Part 6. Producer Alex Burrett

By Rob Long , read in five parts by Rob Morrow.
Discussions between Rob Long and his sharp-talking agent expose the superficiality of Hollywood. Part 1. Producer Eoin O'Callaghan