With the Rev Roger Hutchings.

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

With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Rt Rev Richard Harries , Bishop of Oxford.

Stimulating conversation with Melvyn Bragg and guests. Producer Ruth Gardiner
Revised repeat at 9.30pm

With Martha Kearney and guests.
Postcards: Breathing Underwater by Bryony Lavery. Part 1 of 5. Managing editor Nadine Grieve
For Postcards details see 7.45pm repeat E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk

Joanna Pinnock goes in search of the origins of the mysterious figure at the heart of so many of the May Day festivities held throughout Britain.
Producers Sarah Blunt and Joanna Pinnock

Michael Bakewell's dramatisation of the novel by Agatha Christie.
In the last of five parts, Hercule Poirot must fit each of the clues into its correct place. with Lindsey Fawcett, Sabina Franklyn, Wendy Craig, lain Glen, Susannah Corbett and Gerard McDermott.

: With Liz Barclay and John Waite.

I With Nick Clarke.

Peter Snow chairs the fifth heat of this
, year's contest. Contenders answer questions on both specialist subjects and general knowledge.
Producer Paul Bajoria. Repeated Sunday

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

Patrice Chaplin 's play shows a less familiar side to chanteuse Suzy Solidor , who ran the infamous Paris nightclub La Vie Parisienne in the 1940s. with Danielle McCormack , James Muir , Peter Gunn , Jillie Meers , Jennie Lee and Brian Parr Director Jeremy Mortimer

The Leasehold Trap. Sarah Pennells asks whether the leasehold system is ripe for reform.
Producer Josh de la Mare

Food enthusiast Graeme Rigby is joined by chef Alastair Little in five programmes about preserved fish. 1: The Bombay Duck That Wasn't Producer Susan Roberts

By Attia Hossain , read by Shaheen Khan. A bride finds herself deserted.

Repeated from Saturday 11am

With Jane Franchi and her guests. Producer Amber Dawson

With Clare English and Chris Lowe.

Radio's award-winning antidote to panel games comes from the Theatre Royal in Windsor. With Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Jeremy Hardy. Humphrey Lyttelton presides, while Colin Sell is on the piano.
Producer Jon Naismith. Repeated Sunday

Betty learns about yin and yang. Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Mark Lawson chairs a live nightly arts programme.

By Bryony Lavery. A Tudor shipwreck is explored off Porthant Bay and a new diver stirs up memories. Part 1 of 5. with Geoffrey Hutchings. Sean Arnold.
Russell Boulter , Diana Berriman and Rachel Atkins. Director Janet Whitaker Repeated from 10.45am

Three programmes following midwives at work in different parts of the United Kingdom. 1: Midwives and Monitors
Homerton Hospital in East London. Producer Alison Vernon-Smith

Profit Profs. After decades of frowning on teachers who made money, British universities now employ dozens of millionaire dons. Peter Day reports. Producer Rosamund Jones Revised

Six programmes follow the advance of spring. 5: Nick Baker reaches Scotland. Producer Grant Sonnex. PHONE: [number removed]. E-MAIL: spring@bbc.co.uk

Revised repeat from 9am

With Isobel Hilton.
Producers Prue Keely and Jenni Russell E-MAIL: wtonite@bbc.co.uk

Charles Frazier 's novel is abridged in ten parts by Kati Nicholl and read by William Hootkins. Part 6. Producer Jill Waters

Repeated from yesterday 7.55am

Andrew Lincoln stars as Christian in the first of a series of darkly satirical dramas written and directed by Martin Jameson. 1: Bingo!
It is 2003, and the new government establishes a state bingo to fund the health service. with Stuart Richman , Malcolm Hebden. Jane Hollowood , Jimmy Hibbert , Chris Cooke ,
Melissa Sinden , Caroline Sugden and Hannah Wilkinson. Music composed by Paul Cargill

Robin Denselow talks to six musicians who have fallen in love with music from another culture. 4: Lucy Duran Repeated from Saturday 11.30pm

By Amos Oz, abridged in nine episodes by Patrick Carroll , read by Alfred Molina.
Producer Ned Chaillet