with NORAH MORGANS. Stereo

Presented by John Humphrys and Peter Hobday
Including the fifth of Today's reports on how times have changed over the past 30 years.
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Your Letters

by Anthony Smith

Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Bride to Be by AGNES WEDDERBURN
Read by Valerie Murray Producer SHEILA FOX

NEM, p 50; Son of God, eternal Saviour (BBC HB 377); Psalm 22,7-13; John 11, vv 33-44; Most glorious Lord of life (BBC HB 398) Stereo

Presented by Penelope Lively. The best books for Christmas - Julia Eccleshare , editor of Children's Books of the Year 1987, and Blake Morrison , literary editor of the Observer, select their favourites. Producer SALLY FELDMAN

with John Howard

with Derek Cooper
Producer VANESSA HARRISON (Re-broadcast next Monday)

Presented by Brian Widlake

1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Captain Crab's Treasure. Stereo
2.05 Let's Join In with Soundbox Doodle-Doodle -Cock by JOAN ELYSE. Stereo (e)
2.25 The Song Tree Huff and Puff (9) Presented by HILARY JAMES and SIMON MAYOR With PYE WACKETT Written by BARRY GIBSON. Stereo (e)
2.40 Country Dancing Stage 3 With JOHN TETHER (9) (R) (e)

Introduced by Julia Shaw from Newcastle upon Tyne. The female perspective on people, politics and places, including a country hotel with a difference: men are banned! BBC North East

Our Man in Havana (2) Stereo

Larry Harris talks to well-known people about what was going on at the time of their birth.
1: The Rt Hon Bernard Weatherill , mp
(born 25 November 1920)
The present Speaker of the House of Commons was born at a time when Parliament was concerned with the Irish problem and unemployment! Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill

Presented by Frances Coverdale and Gordon Clough continued on VHFIFM 5.50-5.55

With EUGENE FRASER including Financial Report

with Clive Jacobs and the team Producer IRENE MALUS

(Re-broadcast next Monday)

with Margaret Howard
Producer JULIAN HALE. Stereo
(Revised re-broadcast next Sunday)

Lord Young, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
The Rt Hon John Smith , qc. mp
Anne Sofer , member of the SDP National Committee Gilbert Gray, qc tackle the issues raised by an audience in Woodford Green, Essex
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby Producer CAROLE STONE BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 10pm)

Thanksgiving Day past and present, a summing-up of current political situation, and the riots of Cuban prisoners threatened with deportation back to Cuba, discussed.

Last in the present series
Presented by John Eidinow Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

by Alistair Cooke
(Re-broadcast next Sunday)

Playing the Great Game Writers are a subversive crowd, nothing if not traitors.
The better the writer, the greater the betrayal tends to appear.... John Ie Carre 's vindication of Graham Greene 's predicament in the 1950s - when his depiction of the secret services nearly brought him to the Old Bailey - underlines the extent to which spy fiction takes its cue from the real world.
But given the current climate of disillusion in the espionage trade, have the spy writers anything more to say?
Richard Mayne reports. Producer WILL CANTOPHER (Re-broadcast next Monday)

The End of the Affair abridged in ten episodes by SUE ANSTRUTHER
Read by Julian Glover and Kika Markham (10) Producer MAURICE LEITCH
(Starting on Monday:five stories by Muriel Spark )

Presented by Richard Kershaw

with Bill Wallis
David Tate , Sally Grace and Jon Glover
Written by RICHARD QUICK . STEVE PUNT. MIKE COLEMAN ,
ALISON RENSHAW. PETE SINCLAIR. KEVIN MANDRY. GED PARSONS, BILL MATTHEWS. MAX HANDLEY. MARK BURTON. JOHN O'FARRELL. ROBERT UNFORD. LES PETERS ROWLEY .
PETER HICKEY and others Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow 5.25pm L W)

followed by an interlude

Deutsches Magazin
12.301: Unsere Schule
12.40
2: Wasgibt's im Femsehen?
12.50
3: Berlin ist eine Reise wert
1.00
4: Andere Länder, andere Sitten Compiled by DONALD RICHARDS and WOLFGANG KEINHORST Producer TONY STAPLES (e)