| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores forgotten acres and looks at creating a sense of 'home' at work.(R) 00:45Bells from the Church of St Augustine, Brooklands, Kent.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5It is 1936, and four-year-old Antonia is given Our Island Story by her godmother.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5It is 1947, and the teenage Antonia Pakenham has a schoolgirl crush.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5The schoolgirl Antonia has converted to Catholicism.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Antonia has met her first love, Patrick, and her life-long obsession, history.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Antonia Fraser, aged 32, writes the book that changed her life.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3By Frank Cottrell Boyce. A certain Oxford academic is transported to a strange world.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Jonathan Rea. 05:45Ben Jackson visits a farm that has been producing geese for nearly 30 years. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Chris Packham presents the ivory gull from the northern polar seas.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Jonathan Rea. 05:45What does the Paris climate change agreement mean for agriculture? 05:58Chris Packham presents a true global ocean going mariner, the red-billed tropicbird.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Jonathan Rea. 05:45Increases in fish quotas spell good news for Scottish fishermen. 05:58Chris Packham presents the flightless cormorant adapted to its Galapagos world.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Jonathan Rea. 05:45Could genetically modified insects help reduce pesticide use and cattle diseases? 05:58Chris Packham presents the superbly camouflaged great snipe of Eastern Europe.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Jonathan Rea. 05:45Defra reveals how many badgers were killed in the latest cull. 05:58Chris Packham presents the Arabian babbler of a Yemeni Desert.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Cardinal Vincent Nichols. 05:45A listener stopped someone taking their own life, and news through an 8-year-old's eyes.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Bells from the High Cathedral of Saints Peter and Mary, Cologne, Germany. 05:45Mark Coles profiles the billionaire business magnate and inventor Elon Musk.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark visits Swedish Lapland to discover the myths and magic of the Northern Lights.(R) 06:30The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. Presented by Charlotte Smith. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05As midwinter approaches, John McCarthy explores how we cope with dark times. 06:35For a goose farmer, this is the busiest week of the year. Caz Graham lends a hand. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Morning news. Includes Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10How Christmas went 'underground' during the British Civil War. 07:54Sam Taylor presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Save the Rhino. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Last in an Advent series, Learning to See, from Methodist College Belfast. 08:48Howard Jacobson recalls a mongrel mix of traditions in his family's Christmas festivities.(R) 08:58Chris Packham presents the ivory gull from the northern polar seas.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe meets James Crawford, Semyon Bychkov, Julia Sallabank and Peter Randall-Page 09:451/5It is 1936, and four-year-old Antonia is given Our Island Story by her godmother.
| 09:00Brian Cox and Robin Ince explore the legacy of Einstein's great theory. 09:304/5Why does the character of the devouring mother have such force?(R) 09:452/5It is 1947, and the teenage Antonia Pakenham has a schoolgirl crush.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets crime writer Patricia Cornwell and astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell. 09:453/5The schoolgirl Antonia has converted to Catholicism.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss circadian rhythms. 09:454/5Antonia has met her first love, Patrick, and her life-long obsession, history.
| 09:00Kirsty Young talks to pop star Kylie Minogue.(R) 09:455/5Antonia Fraser, aged 32, writes the book that changed her life.
| 09:00Gyles Brandreth, Sue Perkins, Bruce Forsyth and Jamie Stangroom's Star Wars challenge.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Tina Fey, women voting and standing in Saudi elections, and treatment of severe anorexia. 10:451/5When her marriage implodes, Zoe faces the reality of life as a single mum.
| 10:00Noma Dumezweni, Helen Sharman, pain relief, women and swearing, marital rape in India. 10:452/5Zoe is determined to buy Ben out of the family house.
| 10:00Gloria Steinem discusses her new book and the influences on her activism and her feminism. 10:413/5Zoe starts a new job, but will it be enough to help her keep the house? 10:55A conversation recorded in Beirut between Syrian refugees trying to make a new life there.
| 10:00Criticising appearance, infanticide law, Sugar Plum fairy, Midsomer Murders, chutney. 10:454/5As Zoe's work dries up, her life begins to unravel.
| 10:00What are the latest trends for this season's nails? 10:455/5Zoe stocks up at the food bank, but the kids are unimpressed.
| 10:30Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel from Stonehenge.
| 10:00Adam and Ian are getting married, and has Lynda bitten off more than she can chew?
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| 11:00 | 11:00Sukhdev Sandhu tells the story of a book of hippy philosophy that defined the 1960s. 11:304/5Tony launches a diplomatic mission to Russia. A 1955 original re-recorded in in 2015.
| 11:00Jim Al-Khalili and three scientists tackle air pollution from dirty vehicle emissions. 11:30Composer and conductor Paul Spicer explores the impact of Edward Elgar's Nimrod.
| 11:00Mukti Jain Campion discovers how Indians are embracing the online shopping revolution. 11:302/4A whodunnit set on the great Flying Scotsman in the days of steam.
| 11:00The risks people take in rural Cambodia to get basic healthcare. 11:30Caroline Nin listens to those drawn to sing the music of the legendary French performer.
| 11:003/3Bettany Hughes follows the ancient road from Rome to Istanbul. 11:304/4An all-star cast in the last part of Michael Frayn's brilliantly funny view of our world.
| 11:00Steve Richards of the Independent looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Stepping up efforts to find an end to the Syria conflict.
| 11:15Commander Chris Hadfield is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Comments made by the Nobel scientist Sir Tim Hunt started a worldwide debate on sexism. 12:15How much money goes to good causes from charity Christmas cards? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04How a fringe newspaper became a worldwide symbol for freedom of expression. 12:15Melanie Abbott hears listeners' experiences of the gender pay gap. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04How one picture changed the nature of the debate about migrants in Europe. 12:15We investigate the practices of private fostering agencies that make millions in profit. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04How a dress from Birmingham became the year's biggest talking point. 12:15How Japan is caring for people with dementia by keeping them visible and active. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The hashstag that galvanised a protest movement on a scale not seen since the 1960s. 12:15Peter White asks if bigger fines in food poisoning cases will improve restaurant hygiene. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Why a Swiss bank will be charging savers for holding their money from the new year. 12:306/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:043/6Jack Dee, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden are joined by Sandi Toksvig.(R) 12:32Tim Hayward discovers the secret underground culture of 'dirty trifle'. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell 13:45Anne McElvoy retraces a votes for women march, led by the non-violent Suffragist movement.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:45Anne McElvoy explores rival liberal solutions to the 1930s Depression.
| 13:00Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:45Anne McElvoy explores the distinctively embattled liberalism that emerged in the Cold War.
| 13:00Are we in the dark on EU migration numbers? 13:45Anne McElvoy explores the rise and fall of the 1960s liberals, like Roy Jenkins.
| 13:00Shaun Ley speaks to European politicians from the EU summit after Cameron's pitch. 13:45Anne McElvoy explores how, since its 1960s highpoint, liberalism has come under pressure.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Figheldean Village Hall near Salisbury.(R)
| 13:00Global effects of low oil prices plus saving Libya's antiquities. Presented by Shaun Ley. 13:30Sharmini Selvarajah meets interfaith families facing the 'December dilemma'.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Warning: stags in pub.(R) 14:15By Timothy X Atack. A young boy and a very strange Santa go on a Christmas road trip.(R)
| 14:00Adam and Ian are getting married.(R) 14:151/4The mild-mannered wife of a town councillor admits to murdering her husband.
| 14:00A happy anniversary for David and Ruth?(R) 14:153/10Epic historical saga set in the richest, most powerful city on earth.
| 14:00Come and get Eddie's finest quality mistletoe! .(R) 14:15Daniel Mays stars in a bittersweet drama about a first-time offender's day in court.
| 14:00Has Lynda bitten off more than she can chew?(R) 14:15The astonishing inside story of the final days and hours of the Greek bailout deal.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30Crime drama set in 1990s Shanghai. Chen investigates the murder of a dissident writer.
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Harpenden, Hertfordshire.(R) 14:45Conversations recorded in Beirut between Syrian refugees trying to make a life there.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections. 15:30Cheese educator and campaigner Juliet Harbutt shares her life in food with Sheila Dillon.(R)
| 15:00What can everyone learn from the world's most effective classroom tutors? 15:30Fi Glover asks when do you know you have been born the wrong gender.
| 15:00Questions on saving and investing, including cash, ISAs, funds and stock markets. 15:30Space psychology, superforecasters, MPs guide to mental health and Recovery College.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark visits Swedish Lapland to discover the myths and magic of the Northern Lights. 15:27Jon Bentley presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children.(R) 15:30The best new fiction and non-fiction, talking to writers and unearthing lost classics.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Harpenden, Hertfordshire. 15:45On a bunk from school Cormac meets a mysterious stranger. By Lisa McInerney.
| 15:30Composer and conductor Paul Spicer explores the impact of Edward Elgar's Nimrod.(R)
| 15:001/2Nothing delights Emma more than interfering in the romantic lives of others
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| 16:00 | 16:004/4Frances Fyfield examines the score of Beethoven's beautiful sonata for violin and piano.(R) 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss issues around childlessness.
| 16:00Michael Blastland on why people treat objects and other entities as if they are alive. 16:30Fashion designer Roger Saul chooses garden designer Gertrude Jekyll
| 16:00Laurie Taylor looks at chess communities and the competitive culture of the self-made men. 16:30Steve Hewlett asks if there will be a Leveson part two, and David Rose on Shaker Aamer.
| 16:00Star Wars - do you remember the first time? 16:30Astronaut Chris Hadfield gives Tim Peake advice on how to cope in space.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a cyclist, a politician, a singer, a king, an actress. 16:30Tom Stoppard on radio drama, Jim Naughtie on leaving Today, and the BBC in Scotland. 16:55A conversation recorded in Beirut between Syrian refugees trying to make a new life there.
| 16:00Gloria Steinem. Tina Fey. Katie Hopkins on why she feels okay criticising fat people.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup presents a programme devoted to contemporary Norwegian literature. 16:30Paul Farley hears new poems from Wendy Cope and Lachlan Mackinnon at their home in Ely.
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| 17:00 | 17:00News interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30A listener stopped someone taking their own life, and news through an 8-year-old's eyes.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane unearths Britain's hidden army of volunteers.(R) 17:40Mark Coles profiles the billionaire business magnate and inventor Elon Musk.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Man convicted of plotting Remembrance Day terror attack Nurses jailed for faking results 18:303/6Jack Dee, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden are joined by Sandi Toksvig.
| 18:00British astronaut Tim Peake begins space mission; LA security threat closes schools 18:306/6Ginny asks Vera to help her present a programme on BBC Radio about modern poetry.(R)
| 18:00Unemployment is at its lowest level in 10 years with a record number of people in work. 18:305/6A neighbourly good deed lands Tom in trouble.
| 18:00David Cameron says he will battle hard for EU reform at a summit in Brussels 18:303/4Back to 2003 for Tina's geopolitical aspirations and role promoting US values overseas.
| 18:00The PM said his reform agenda was winning support in the EU, but disagreements remain. 18:306/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.
| 18:00The former Labour MP died days after he was ruled unfit to face child abuse charges 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00David Cameron under pressure over Europe 18:15John Waite chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Adam and Ian are getting married. 19:15Kirsty Lang on We're Doomed, The Dazzle and the Waterstones Book of the Year winner. 19:451/5When her marriage implodes, Zoe faces the reality of life as a single mum.(R)
| 19:00A happy anniversary for David and Ruth? 19:15Harry Price: Ghost Hunter, poets as novelists, Rosie Hood, The Haunting of Hill House. 19:452/5Zoe is determined to buy Ben out of the family house.(R)
| 19:00Come and get Eddie's finest quality mistletoe! . 19:15Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Roman poet Horace, Christmas TV, gallery gift shop economics 19:453/5Zoe starts a new job, but will it be enough to help her keep the house?(R)
| 19:00Has Lynda bitten off more than she can chew? 19:15Arts news with Samira Ahmed, including Star Wars director JJ Abrams. 19:454/5As Zoe's work dries up, her life begins to unravel.(R)
| 19:15Bette Midler, Neil MacGregor, Christmas ghost stories, and a farewell to deep coal mining. 19:455/5Zoe stocks up at the food bank, but the kids are unimpressed.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles the billionaire business magnate and inventor Elon Musk. 19:15Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Star Wars VII, Serial podcast, Dickensian, and Penguin Monarchs.
| 19:00It is a big day for Eddie. 19:151/2Joanna Lumley looks back at June Whitfield's first radio appearances. 19:451/3Mysterious Marta is tending the vines in a South African vineyard, then something happens.
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| 20:00 | 20:00The Philosopher's Arms asks how we can want and not want a cream cake. 20:30Five school children starve to death in the Malaysian jungle. Why weren't they protected?(R)
| 20:00Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane unearths Britain's hidden army of volunteers. 20:40How do mobility instructors help children? And Ellen Watson talks about Usher Syndrome.
| 20:00David Aaronovitch untangles the ideological threads that make up the 'Islamic State'.
| 20:00Has the west or its allies entered into an unspoken alliance with Al Qaeda in Syria? 20:30How the white collar worker has become a cult hero in TV series and comic books in Japan.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Figheldean Village Hall near Salisbury. 20:50Howard Jacobson recalls a mongrel mix of traditions in his family's Christmas festivities.
| 20:00Jazz singer Kurt Elling doffs his trilby as he explores the life of Frank Sinatra.
| 20:00Tom Stoppard on radio drama, Jim Naughtie on leaving Today, and the BBC in Scotland.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a cyclist, a politician, a singer, a king, an actress.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00The search for an elusive watery wonder in the aftermath of Sri Lanka's civil war.(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe meets James Crawford, Semyon Bychkov, Julia Sallabank and Peter Randall-Page(R)
| 21:00Space psychology, superforecasters, MPs guide to mental health and Recovery College. 21:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince explore the legacy of Einstein's great theory.(R)
| 21:00Christine Nicol explores the meaty problem of eating aliens and how to choose which one. 21:30Libby Purves meets crime writer Patricia Cornwell and astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell.(R)
| 21:00Astronaut Chris Hadfield gives Tim Peake advice on how to cope in space.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss circadian rhythms.(R)
| 21:002/2Anne McElvoy traces liberalism's development since the Suffragists.
| 21:002/2An inventive adaptation by Glen Neath of wondrously entertaining and earthy tales.(R)
| 21:00Why a Swiss bank will be charging savers for holding their money from the new year.(R) 21:26Sam Taylor presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Save the Rhino.(R) 21:30How the white collar worker has become a cult hero in TV series and comic books in Japan.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports. Plus - was the defeat of Front National 'democratic'? 22:451/5Nathan's mother is keen that he makes the right impression on potential patron Lady Grayer
| 22:00Los Angeles schools shut over email threat; World Tonight hears from an LA congressman. 22:452/5DI Edmonds investigates the disappearance of a mother and son, last seen near Slade House.
| 22:00The Fed raises US interest rates, what does it mean for the UK and for the global economy? 22:453/5Sally Timms and the university Paranormal Society are on a field trip to Slade Alley.
| 22:00Will the UN's attempts to stymie Islamic State's cash be effective? 22:454/5Freya Timms has come to the Fox and Hounds pub to investigate her sister's disappearance.
| 22:00The World Tonight discusses whether African democracy is thriving. 22:455/5Dr Iris Marinus-Fenby seeks out Slade Alley following a trail from Fred Pink's diaries.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15David Aaronovitch untangles the ideological threads that make up the 'Islamic State'.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45George Parker of the FT analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jarvis Cocker's nocturnal exploration of the human condition leads him to Soho after dark. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:002/4The sketch show written by the public. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:005/6Tessa Peake-Jones plays a dressmaker whose latest commission comes at a cost. 23:153/6Even the most successful writers have, at some point, had to take jobs to pay the bills.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster on the last PMQs of the year.
| 23:00Tim Samuels spends a weekend in a Paris banlieue, seen as a breeding ground for radicalism 23:30The government is considering a proposal to curb the powers of the House of Lords.
| 23:00Fashion designer Roger Saul chooses garden designer Gertrude Jekyll(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55A conversation recorded in Beirut, between Syrian refugees trying to make a new life there
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections. 23:30Paul Farley meets poet James Fenton, recipient of the 2015 Pen Pinter prize.(R)
| 23:00Star Wars - do you remember the first time?(R) 23:30As midwinter approaches, John McCarthy explores how we cope with dark times.(R)
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