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Are we still spending too much on benefits?

The housing benefit bill for people who work has nearly doubled in the last three years. The National Housing Federation says an extra 10,000 more working families now need help paying their rent every month.

Should you get housing benefit if you have got a job? Do you need it because rents are so high?

We have also heard today that Legal aid is being cut for welfare cases - Kent's CAB will not be able to keep paying specialist lawyers to help people challenge their benefits.

Today the government wants to get tougher on jobseekers who refuse to take up job offers. They could lose their benefits for up to three years. Do you approve?

Do you rely on benefits - are you being made to feel like a scrounger?

Also on the programme, it was a murder committed almost 70 years ago. Before dawn on 31 October 1946, on a bleak roadside in Kent, a lone woman looks to hitch a lift to London. A lorry driver stops. The encounter ends in murder.

Dagmar Petrzywalski, who was known locally as Miss Peters, was found dead near the A20, having been strangled with a scarf.

The incident prompted a huge murder inquiry that was described by Scotland Yard's Robert Fabian - famed as "Fabian of the yard" - as his greatest case.

We speak to author Diana Souhami who's new book, Murder at Wrotham Hill, is centered on the crime.

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