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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh.

How stressed strawberries could help growers to cut water use by a third. Post-Chernobyl restrictions on sheep farmers will be lifted. The Farming Today cow sets hoof to grass. Show more

Sean Curran with the latest news from Westminster and beyond. The Chancellor unveils a Budget with mixed news for families, and finds himself accused of creating a 'granny tax'. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of Moses Mendelssohn, one of the greatest thinkers of the German Enlightenment. Show more

Why are some people always late - is it all down to our personality? Plus Shelina Permalloo on winning Master Chef, and why depression amongst men needs to be taken more seriously. Show more

When DCI Sue Craven's team stage a night time farm raid, they are not prepared for the horrors discovered. Stars Maxine Peake. Show more

The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the headlines, with stories from New York, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Azerbaijan, Brazil and Cambodia. Show more

4 Extra Debut. William Lyons conjures the brash brilliance of the waits - the bands of British town musicians who peaked in the 15th and 16th centuries. From March 2012. Show more

The community campaigning for a supermarket; rail networks in the north; sheep farm restrictions lifted 26 years after Chernobyl; Starbucks at home. Presented by Winifred Robinson. Show more

The 50p tax rate is cut, personal allowances are increased, but pensioners will lose out after their tax-free income is frozen. How will the Budget 2012 affect you? Show more

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Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. Show more

One of Peter's betes noires is being introduced to other blind people. He is joined to discuss the subject by author Sue Townsend. Show more

Helen has an emotional encounter and Vicky discovers that revenge is sweet. Show more

Comedy by Craig Hawes. Lonely bachelor Gwilym fulfils his relationship needs by writing to long-term women prisoners who he will never have to meet. Until one of them turns up. Show more

In this his bicentenary year, Helen Mark visits the Medway towns in Kent to discover what part the landscape played in Charles Dickens's life and works. Show more

Mark Tully presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Child in Need India. Show more

Book magazine with Mariella Frostrup. Valerie Grove and Heidi Thomas discuss Dodie Smith. Plus, Safka Zinovieff on Greek history, and novels based on real living people. Show more

Presented by Francine Stock. Jennifer Lawrence discusses her lead role in The Hunger Games, and Brian Cox on performing Orson Welles's script for Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Show more

The science of online auction bidding, making new products from life on the ocean floor, experiments on noises we hate and why the clock change might kill us. Show more

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The South Shields comedian explores the notion of 'Offermation' and what stuff really makes life meaningful. From March 2012. Show more

Debbie plays a wild card, and Tony has a question for Lilian. Show more

Greg Doran on his appointment as the artistic director of the RSC. Film-maker Molly Dineen reviews Werner Herzog's series about Death Row prisoners. Bassist Esperanza Spalding. Show more

Dramatic poem by Owen Sheers about a soldier struggling to return home. Commissioned for the Radio 4 More Than Words Festival. 4/5. Arthur's Story. Show more

Why are plans to reform the NHS in England so controversial? Simon Cox investigates the tortuous path of the Health and Social Care Bill and asks how the proposed changes may work.

Evan Davis and his panel swap thoughts on making everyday executive decisions. They also discuss stress - their own and that of their employees. Show more

Kevin Fong talks to space scientists and historians to find out if Scott's Antarctic exploits provide a road map for future human exploration of the Moon and the planet Mars. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of Moses Mendelssohn, one of the greatest thinkers of the German Enlightenment. Show more

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Philippa Thomas presents national and international news and analysis.

Two seemingly harmless games in Stewart's past and present turn violent in the unforgiving town of Stonemouth. Show more

The News Quiz gets a US makeover as the all-American panel discuss election year and more. The Daily Show's Lewis Black hosts. Show more

David Cornock and the BBC's parliamentary team report as MPs continue their budget debate and Labour calls for an inquiry into the leaking of many of the chancellor's plans. Show more

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Tim Winton's memoir holds that a fear of the sea is essential and marvels at the joys of beachcombing. Read by Stephen Dillane. Show more

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