With Vishvapani.

With John Harvey. Producer David Street

With John Humphrys , Sue MacGregor.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Rt Rev Richard Harries.

With Melvyn Bragg and guests. Producer Ruth Gardiner
Revised repeat at 9.30pm

With Martha Kearney and guests.
Postcards: The Funny Bones by Helen Kluger. Part 1 of 5. Managing editor Nadine Grieve
For Postcards details see 7.45pm repeat E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
Face behind the Voice: page 131

Simon Winchester reveals a story of murder, madness and lexicography in which a millionaire surgeon confined in Broadmoor becomes a major contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Readings by John Rowe and Brian Parr.
Producer Jill Waters

A five-part series of the comedy set in Perhaps the country's least spectacular •aw chambers. 1: Only the Lonely. John Fuller-Carp finds himself in competition with rival Vernon Ames. Starring John Bird , James Fleet and Sarah Lancashire . With Jonathan Kydd , Jeremy Clyde , Joanna Monro and Tracy Ann Oberman. Written by Clive coleman. Producer Paul Schlesinger

Daily consumer news and investigations.

With Nick Clarke.

Peter Snow chairs Heat 6 of this gear's contest.
Producer Paul Bajoria. Repeated Sunday

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

When Lydia Avilov died in 1942, her account of her love affair with Chekhov was published. But was it just a romantic whim of her own imagining?
With Colin Sarrell , Alan Leith , Pamela Grace and Ann Penfold. Translated by David Magarshack Adapted for radio by Carolyn Sally Jones Director Keith Slade

Vincent Duggleby takes calls on an issue affecting personal finance. Producer Frances Macdonald LINES OPEN from 1.30pm

All this week, Michael Rosen unmasks the subversive past of classic children's literature. 1: Wild Thing. The dramatic effects of Maurice Sendak 's drawings. Producer Matthew Dodd

By Patrick O'Brian, read by Liam O'Callaghan.

With Jean Snedegar.
Repeated from Saturday 11am

With Jane Franchi and her guests. Producer Amber Dawson

With Clare English and Jon Sopel.

Radio's antidote to panel games comes from the City Varieties Music Hall in Leeds. With Graeme Garden , Tim Brooke-Taylor , Paul Merton ,
Humphrey Lyttelton and Colin Sell. Producer Jon Naismith. Repeated Sunday

Where's the beef?
Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Mark Lawson chairs a live arts show.
Tonight, what makes people see lavish musicals or films again and again? Producer Jerome Weatheraid

By Helen Kluger. Husband-and-wife act Hazel and Barry Bone play their last booking of the season and face up to some difficult decisions. Part 1 of 5. with Russell Boulter , Becky Hindley ,
Alison Pettitt , Tristan Sturrock and Christopher Wright Pianist Colin Guthrie. Producer Marilyn Imrie Repeated from 10.45am

Three programmes following midwives at work in different parts of the UK.
2: Birthrights and Bleepers. If your idea of a midwife is a tall Australian on a motorbike, then Alice Coyle fits the bill. Producer Alison Vemon-Smith

Back to School. Schools and universities are still rooted in 19tN;entury traditions. Peter Day asks what changes employers would like to make to the system. Editor Stephen Chilcott

Nick Baker reaches the end of his journey following the advance of spring. Producer Grant Sonnex PHONE: [number removed]
E-MAIL: spring@bbc.co.uk

Revised repeat from 9am

With Robin Lustig.

Sean Bean reads Stan Barstow 's
1950s novel in ten parts. Part 1. Producer Dave Sheasby

Repeated from yesterday 7.55am

Louise Lombard stars in the second of a series of darkly satirical dramas. Chicken. Gavin scoffs an endless diet of genetically engineered chicken. with Russell Dixon , Terence Mann , Melissa Sinden , Kirk Smith and Jimmy Hibbert Music composed by Paul Cargill
Written by Martin Jameson and Peter Kerry Director Martin Jameson

By Amos Oz. Part 5 of 9. Producer Ned Chaillet