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Mary Ann Sieghart profiles the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, whose welfare reforms will be revealed in a White Paper after the Spending Review. Show more

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Alex James meets the first of three finalists for this year's BBC Farmer of the Year. Jon Birchall has put the environment at the heart of his mixed farm in Hertfordshire. Show more

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William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar and unfamiliar. E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk. Show more

Jonathan Dimbleby presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity WaterAid. Show more

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Marking the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization with voices from Cape Town where the congress is taking place. With The Rev Hugh Palmer and The Rev Dr Chris Wright. Show more

Sarah Dunant owns up to being a member of the greediest generation - the baby boomers. She wonders if after asking for freedom, they are now asking for the right to die? Show more

News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.

Kate has thoughts of home and Vicky means business. Show more

Barrister Michael Mansfield joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Show more

David Mitchell asks Rhod Gilbert, Kevin Bridges, Tom Wrigglesworth and Lucy Porter to smuggle truths at 2010's Edinburgh Fringe. Show more

Sheila Dillon hears from the people attempting to revolutionise the sandwich. She's joined by Bee Wilson who's been looking at the past, present and future of this food icon. Show more

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Writer Michael Freedland and his journalist son Jonathan head to Lithuania and Belarus to track their family roots through the turbulent history of Jewish life in these countries. Show more

Gardening in unusual urban locations. Eric Robson is joined by Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Wilson and Bob Flowerdew in Hulme, Manchester. Show more

Dr Hilary Jones investigates the immensely corpulent individuals who put themselves on show to the public at carnivals. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Captain Ahab's obsessive sea chase across the high seas for the great white whale, as witnessed by sole voyage survivor Ishmael. Stars Trevor White. Show more

Mariella Frostrup talks to bestselling writer Ken Follett about his new book which follows five families through the dramatic events of the early twentieth century. Show more

Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that mark life's major transitions, from the cradle to the grave. Tessa Nicholson and Alun Raglan read works by Blake and others. Show more

Allan Urry investigates whether insolvency practitioners measure up to the high standards expected of them when they are called in to a stricken business. Show more

Mary Ann Sieghart profiles the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, whose welfare reforms will be revealed in a White Paper after the Spending Review. Show more

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John Waite makes his selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio. Show more

Things get heated at Grange Farm and Jazzer makes himself at home. Show more

A look at the heroes, history and musical instruments of baseball, with a special performance by the National Symphony Orchestra baseball bat player, Glenn Donnellan. Show more

By Eric Pringle. Alice's life has not fulfilled its early promise, but the determination that drove her to pursue a stage career gives her the strength to face an uncertain future. Show more

Do programmes have a sell-by date? And message board mayhem - with Roger Bolton. Show more

Matthew Bannister on the agony aunt Claire Rayner, the operatic soprano Dame Joan Sutherland, and the football manager Malcolm Allison. Show more

Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. Show more

Jonathan Dimbleby presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity WaterAid. Show more

Is inequality bad for society as a whole? Mukul Devichand tries to settle the statistical argument kicked off by the authors of The Spirit Level. Show more

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Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster.

Rachel Johnson of The Lady takes a look at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the week's news. Show more

Welcome To Sarajevo scribe Frank Cottrell Boyce, Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy and Tamara Drewe adapter Moira Buffini reveal some secrets of screenwriting. Show more

Mark Tully asks how real problem solving is best achieved: by the unconscious or by rational thought? Show more

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Laurie Taylor examines the notion of being paid to be nice in relation to hairdressing and asks whether migration leads to financial satisfaction. Show more

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