with Peter Hobday and Michael Stewart
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*. 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

with Sir Laurens van der Post Stereo

with Mary Whitehouse Producer SALLY THOMPSON
(Repeated: Sunday 6.45 pm)

A Radio News production by ADAM RAPHAEL

The Night Train by GUY DE MAUPASSANT freely translated by HARRY BELL Read by Robert Rietty

A memorial service takes place this morning at Westminster
Abbey for Sir John Betjeman , CBE. who died on 19 May this year at the age of 77. A man known not only for his poetry but for his keen sense of humour, his advocacy of Victorian architecture and his campaigns to defend threatened buildings, he was knighted in 1969 and appointed Poet Laureate in 1972. The service is conducted by the Dean of Westminster Abbey, THE VERY REV
DR EDWARD F. CARPENTER , with the choir of Westminster Abbey.

Stereo

Presenter Brian Widlake

Further adventures of Big and Little (5) by SUE LIMB

by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM (4) Stereo

Compiled and presented by George Deacon
6: A Chapter of Cheats - or the Roguery of Every Trade Readers BRIAN GLOVER
ROD BEACHAM and HELENA BRECK Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol. Stereo (Brian Glover is a National Theatre player)

An introduction to political thought. The last of seven programmes presented by Brian Redhead The Moderns
Is political thought dead? Is the 20th century devoid of political thinkers who can stand comparison with Locke, Mill or Marx or with Hobbes, Aristotle or Plato? Alan Ryan of New College, Oxford, and Liam O'Sullivan of the University of Southampton join BRIAN REDHEAD to discuss these questions and to assess the contributions that the thinkers of this 'century of doubts about reason' have made to the history of political thought.
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE

The Year of the Lion (7)

with Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons with Gordon Clough and Susannah Simons

with BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report

with Clive Jacobs
ALANAH MARTIN , TOM BOSWELL and RICHARD HUDSON-EVANS . Producer HELEN ROBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD

(Repeated: Monday 1.40 pm)

with June Knox-Mawer Producer ANNE HOWELLS
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am) Stereo

A personal portrait

The Rt Hon Tony Benn , mp Kathleen Eyre , historian/ author
Ken Durham , Chairman, Unilever
The Rt Hon Norman St John-Stevas , mp in Burnley, Lancashire Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol

The Reverend Jesse Jackson meets Fidel Castro in Cuba and negotiates the release of 22 US prisoners from Cuban jails, much to the embarrassment of the Reagan administration.

by Alistair Cooke

with Michael Billington Producer CARROLL MOORE

Riceyman Steps (5)

Presenter Janet Cohen

welcomes the new-look radio pages which give more space to programmes which need it - in order to welcome the new-look radio pages.
Bill VVams , David Tate , Sally Grace and Paul B. Davies send their thanks to RADIO
TIMES, as do writers IAN BROWN ,
JAMES HENDRIE , RICHARD QUICK, JOHN LANGDON. PAUL B. DAVIES.
MARTIN BOOTH. ALAN WHITING ,
STEVE PUNT, PETE SINCLAIR , PETER HICKEY and others. But producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER can't be bothered.
Oh, we've got some more space ... Just enough for us to tell you that Bobby Ewing was shot by ... (Repeated: Saturday 5.25 pm)

12.30 Making Work 5: Help! If you don't know, ask a colleague! Presenter JOHN WALTERS Drama written by PETER KING Directed by DAN GARRETT Series producer GRAHAM TAYAR
12.50 YTS Briefing
5: New Developments in YTS Presented by MARGARET KORVING