| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:151/3Will Self asks some of Britain's key opinion-makers about the nature of our existence.(R) 00:45Church bells from the Monastery of the Transfiguration, Solovosky.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Author Lauren Elkin strolls the streets, thinking about distinguished women who walked.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Author Lauren Elkin strolls the streets, thinking about distinguished women who walked..(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Author Lauren Elkin strolls the streets, thinking about distinguished women who walked.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Author Lauren Elkin strolls the streets, thinking about distinguished women who walked.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Author Lauren Elkin strolls the streets, thinking about distinguished women who walk.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3A retired widower discovers more than he bargained for when he walks into a cake shop.(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.
| 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 the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. 05:45When will the rise in milk prices be passed on to farmers? 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the common pheasant.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. 05:45Road killed badgers, Paralympic dressage and sheep dog trials. 05:58David Attenborough presents the ptarmigan.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. 05:45Caz Graham looks at whether low broadband speeds can cause health problems. 05:58Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Red-legged Partridge.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. 05:45Grouse shooting and the Glorious Twelfth, pony trekking and broadband. 05:58Chris Packham presents the hen harrier.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. 05:45Felicity Evans looks at farm trespassing, flat racing and dairy protests. 05:58Brett Westwood presents the red grouse.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon Patrick Thomas. 05:45'I loved the boogie woogie, but hated my wartime life'.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from Sheffield Cathedral. 05:45Series of profiles of people who are currently making headlines. Pianist Stephen Hough.
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark meets the UK's largest puppet, Man Engine, in Cornwall's mining landscape.(R) 06:30Felicity Evans is at a new livery yard to learn about the UK's £7 billion equine industry. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05John McCarthy explores the power of sacred architecture through music, prose and poetry. 06:35Ancient cereal varieties are undergoing a revival. Sybil Ruscoe meets two pioneers. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Looking at Elvis the icon, and the Orthodox Jews moving to Canvey Island. 07:54Jill Pay, a volunteer, and seven-year-old Moris present an appeal on behalf of Beanstalk. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | | | | | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Worship from Accrington, remembering grieving communities, 100 years on. 08:48Will Self explores what is wrong with contemporary art.(R) 08:58Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents the common pheasant.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:001/3Piper Kathryn Tickell and jazz trombonist Hannabiell Sanders play the skyline of Newcastle 09:302/5Mark Doyle explores Graham Greene's relationship with West Africa. 09:451/5Author Lauren Elkin strolls the streets, thinking about distinguished women who walked.
| 09:002/4Peter Hennessy invites Vince Cable to reflect on his life and times. 09:452/5Author Lauren Elkin strolls the streets, thinking about distinguished women who walked..
| 09:001/4Golf. Olympic sport? Test of character? Way of life? Quentin Letts with a new series. 09:301/5Sir David Cannadine explores the changing image of Neville Chamberlain's umbrella. 09:453/5Author Lauren Elkin strolls the streets, thinking about distinguished women who walked.
| 09:002/3The dilemmas faced by couples and medical teams when a baby stops growing in the womb. 09:454/5Author Lauren Elkin strolls the streets, thinking about distinguished women who walked.
| 09:00Michael Heath, cartoonist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.(R) 09:455/5Author Lauren Elkin strolls the streets, thinking about distinguished women who walk.
| 09:00Craig Charles and David Emanuel, plus the inheritance tracks of geneticist Steve Jones.
| 09:00News presented by Paddy O'Connell including a review of the Sunday papers.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Featuring 85-year-old Pam Butcher, table tennis world champion for her age category. 10:451/10Father Quixote makes a friend of an Italian bishop, with unexpected consequences.
| 10:00A new biography of Angela Merkel, and why do some young men carry knives? 10:452/10Father Quixote receives some unwelcome, and very surprising, news from his bishop.
| 10:00The NCT have launched a new 'Parent Friendly' certificate - how will this help families? 10:413/10Newly appointed a monsignor, Father Quixote and his friend Sancho set off on their quest. 10:55Friends remember National Service and the opportunities it gave them.
| 10:00The role of the First Lady, political point-scoring or wifely devotion? 10:454/10Father Quixote and his friend Sancho attract the unwelcome attention of the Guardia Civil.
| 10:00Actor Nandi Bhebhe on the American servicemen who died in a botched D-Day rehearsal. 10:455/10Father Quixote and his friend Sancho attract the unwelcome attention of the Guardia Civil.
| 10:303/3Steve Punt puts his ear to the ground in a search for the mysterious so-called World Hum.
| 10:00Shula shows off a birthday present, and Rob makes a last-minute decision.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Can Sherrie, a Romany Gypsy, raise funds to visit Auschwitz for a Roma Holocaust memorial? 11:305/6Comedy by Guy Meredith about British expats sharing a flat in Hong Kong.
| 11:00Brett Westwood looks into the heart of a rose the most extraordinary of flowers. From 2016 11:30Marc Riley raids the BBC archive and finds interviews with Lemmy and Joe Strummer.
| 11:00Nihal Arthanayake presents a portrait of contemporary Britain in an epoch of terror.(R) 11:303/4Laura and Ros are invited on to a narrow boat.
| 11:00Why are more people in Poland preparing for war? Tim Whewell investigates. 11:30David Hockney embarks on an ambitious new portrait series from his Californian studio.(R)
| 11:00Contemporary community dance in Oxford, from the cradle to the grave(R) 11:303/6Alice joins a life drawing class but David is jealous.
| 11:00What lies behind our desire to improve and perfect nature? 11:30Stories from Baluchistan and Kashmir, Colombia, Armenia, and the deep ocean off Bermuda.
| 11:15Kirsty Young interviews Nadiya Hussain, winner of The Great British Bake Off 2015.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04The Graham household is concerned for Gabriel's mind. 12:15Andrea Catherwood on safe paracetamol use. And a fightback from the UK's seaside resorts. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Edie, thus far economical with the truth, is forced to open her heart. 12:15A look at what UK tourism has to offer, along with the challenges it faces. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04In Folkestone, the Grahams face an impossible situation. 12:15The cost of haircuts, young people and employment rights, and the Margate seaside revival. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Italy drives Germany back nine miles from Gorizia. Juliet Argent faces losing her husband. 12:15Watching TV illegally, charges for dropping off at airports and holidays in Scarborough. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Alice Macknade's life seems blessed. 12:15How Portrush in Northern Ireland is being regenerated as a holiday destination.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:04Louise Cooper explores the financial pressures faced by the 'sandwich generation'. 12:303/6John Lloyd and Noel Fielding with Ross Noble, Dr Mike Shanahan and Susie Dent.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 12:041/8Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 76th series of the iconic panel show.(R) 12:32Beer writer Roger Protz - from reviving real ale to the rise of the microbrewers. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:451/5Street philosophy with Bettany Hughes, and changing ideas of character through the ages.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:452/5Street philosophy with Bettany Hughes, and changing ideas about harmony through the ages.(R)
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:453/5Street philosophy with Bettany Hughes, and changing ideas about narcissism through time.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:454/5Street philosophy with Bettany Hughes, and changing ideas about technology through time.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:455/5Street philosophy with Bettany Hughes, and changing ideas about hubris through time.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Ritula Shah presents political debate from BBC Broadcasting House in London.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Folk musician Eliza Carthy creates and curates the festival of her wildest dreams.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Harrison doubts himself.(R) 14:151776 Vienna: Young musical prodigy Maria von Paradis is visited by an unwelcome stranger.
| 14:00Shula shows off a birthday present.(R) 14:151/9First in a new nine-part conspiracy thriller by Matthew Broughton. Starring Romola Garai.
| 14:00Eddie gets some bad news.(R) 14:152/2The school governors struggle to reconcile their religious and cultural differences.(R)
| 14:00New information is brought to Anna's attention.(R) 14:15Charlie Brooks stars in Louise Monaghan's play about a little girl missing her dad.(R)
| 14:00Rex and Toby both want the last word.(R) 14:15Britain 2056: Following the collapse of the information age, a grandfather takes action.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30Entertaining new drama imagines key moments in the Clintons' lives together.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs and the panel visit the West Dean Chilli Fiesta near Chichester.(R) 14:45National Service, attitudes to marriage, and bringing up a family as a widow in the 1960s.
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| 15:00 | 15:008/13The wide ranging music quiz, chaired by Paul Gambaccini. 15:30Why the global future of strawberry production is hanging by a tendril.(R)
| 15:00Tom Holland and guests with the history that matters to us today. 15:301/4Old radio broadcasts chopped, looped and mashed into something new.(R)
| 15:00Louise Cooper explores the big decisions for people in their thirties.(R) 15:30Dr Mark Porter finds out how hip arthroscopy is increasingly being used.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark meets the UK's largest puppet, Man Engine, in Cornwall's mining landscape. 15:27Simone, a mother helped by the charity MERU, presents The Radio 4 Appeal on their behalf.(R) 15:30James Naughtie talks to Evie Wyld about After the Fire, a Still Small Voice.(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs and the panel visit the West Dean Chilli Fiesta near Chichester. 15:45Meridian Cliffs Football Club are surprised to find themselves over the moon.
| 15:152/5How do creatures and plant life survive along the sandy beaches of Northumberland?(R) 15:30Marc Riley raids the BBC archive and finds interviews with Lemmy and Joe Strummer.(R)
| 15:001/2Someone is killing Athens’ wealthiest tax evaders. Inspector Jaritos has to find out why.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sierra Leonean storyteller Usifu Jalloh on the communities rebuilding after Ebola. 16:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince take to the stage at the home of radio astronomy, Jodrell Bank.
| 16:00James Walton asks what it is like to do a job that guarantees loathing from the public. 16:30Alex Salmond chooses Thomas Muir, whom he describes as the father of Scottish democracy.
| 16:002/3Will Self asks some of Britain's key opinion-makers about the nature of our existence.(R) 16:30Reporting statistics, detecting iPlayer use, The New European.
| 16:00Poet Don Paterson continues his series about great speeches in cinema history. 16:30A blow to the LHC "bump"; Crow intelligence; Robot mudskippers; Royal Society book prize.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a bishop, a chemist, an autism campaigner, a duke, a plastic surgeon. 16:30Do selective schools improve grades and improve social mobility? 16:55Sisters consider how marriage has changed since their day.
| 16:00A new Angela Merkel biography, and would you let your children see you give birth?
| 16:00Colin Thubron talks to Mariella Frostrup about his new novel Night of Fire. 16:30Film-maker and writer Jane Darke puts out to sea with the Cornish poet Charles Causley.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 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.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30'I loved the boogie woogie, but hated my wartime life'.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Katie Puckrik chooses her BBC Radio highlights of the week. 17:40Series of profiles of people who are currently making headlines. Pianist Stephen Hough.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Labour's leadership election chaos; High Court rules new members can vote 18:301/8Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 76th series of the iconic panel show.
| 18:00A man who murdered a popular Glasgow newsagent has been sentenced to life in prison 18:305/5Tony has a new neighbour, whose night-time routine is very, very suspicious...(R)
| 18:00Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, says the unions are striking over "minor matters". 18:301/4Can Sophie finally escape her overprotective mother?
| 18:00Sixteen years after winning her first Olympic medal, Katherine Grainger gets her fifth 18:303/4Simon Evans' comedy-economics hybrid focuses on birth.
| 18:00Court of Appeal rules Labour was entitled to stop new members voting in leadership race. 18:303/6John Lloyd and Noel Fielding with Ross Noble, Dr Mike Shanahan and Susie Dent.
| 18:00More Olympic success for Team GB; warning over EU funding pledge 18:15Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00A video has been released by Boko Haram of the missing Nigerian schoolgirls. 18:159/10Hosted by Mark Watson, the final six compete for the prestigious New Comedy Award 2016.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Shula shows off a birthday present. 19:15Samira Ahmed talks to artist Conrad Shawcross and reviews The Glass Menagerie. 19:451/10Father Quixote makes a friend of an Italian bishop, with unexpected consequences.(R)
| 19:00Eddie gets some bad news. 19:15Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down, Krys Lee, Allegro at 70, Windsor racecourse's resident artist 19:452/10Father Quixote receives some unwelcome, and very surprising, news from his bishop.(R)
| 19:00New information is brought to Anna's attention. 19:15Alexander McCall Smith on The Bertie Project, the latest in his 44 Scotland Street series. 19:453/10Newly appointed a monsignor, Father Quixote and his friend Sancho set off on their quest.(R)
| 19:00Rex and Toby both want the last word. 19:15Jamie Cullum at the Proms, Greek crime writer Petros Markaris, artists in residence, Nerve 19:454/10Father Quixote and his friend Sancho attract the unwelcome attention of the Guardia Civil.(R)
| 19:1540 years on from the release of Anarchy in the UK, what is the legacy of punk? 19:455/10Father Quixote and his friend Sancho attract the unwelcome attention of the Guardia Civil.(R)
| 19:00Series of profiles of people who are currently making headlines. Pianist Stephen Hough. 19:15Wiener-Dog, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, Tiffany McDaniel, Hunterian Collection.
| 19:00Henry is waved off to the beach. 19:1510/10Hosted by Mark Watson, the final six compete for the prestigious New Comedy Award 2016. 19:45By Matteo B Bianchi. Summer in Padua, and an elderly lady takes an unusual decision.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Nihal Arthanayake presents a portrait of contemporary Britain in an epoch of terror. 20:30Vladimir Hernandez reports from Venezuela, which is struggling to feed its own people.(R)
| 20:00What did the Birmingham Six case alter - could such miscarriages of justice happen today? 20:40RNIB's film on what it's like to be partially sighted. Plus recording your Pip assessment.
| 20:00Is now the point when the structure of British party politics will fundamentally change? 20:45David Baddiel sets out to understand the rules of rugby union.
| 20:00How have British Special Forces developed and what are they doing in Syria and Libya now? 20:30What can business do to defend itself against the growing army of corporate spies?
| 20:00Ritula Shah presents political debate from BBC Broadcasting House in London. 20:50Will Self explores what is wrong with contemporary art.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby tells the story of his legendary broadcaster father, Richard Dimbleby.
| 20:00Do selective schools improve grades and improve social mobility?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a bishop, a chemist, an autism campaigner, a duke, a plastic surgeon.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brett Westwood is sucked into the weird and wonderful world of the leech.(R) 21:301/3Piper Kathryn Tickell and jazz trombonist Hannabiell Sanders play the skyline of Newcastle(R)
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter finds out how hip arthroscopy is increasingly being used. 21:302/4Peter Hennessy invites Vince Cable to reflect on his life and times.(R)
| 21:00Animal wisdom, mothers and sons. What do killer whales tell us about the human menopause? 21:301/4Golf. Olympic sport? Test of character? Way of life? Quentin Letts with a new series.(R)
| 21:00A blow to the LHC "bump"; Crow intelligence; Robot mudskippers; Royal Society book prize.(R) 21:30West Ham are moving after 111 years. Alan Dein chronicles life on the streets on match day(R)
| 21:00Extraordinary good fortune disrupts the lives of the Graham household.
| 21:002/2Eduardo, Marta's husband, wants a word with Victor.(R)
| 21:00Louise Cooper explores the financial pressures faced by the 'sandwich generation'.(R) 21:26Jill Pay, a volunteer, and seven-year-old Moris present an appeal on behalf of Beanstalk.(R) 21:30What can business do to defend itself against the growing army of corporate spies?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Can aid now get through? We talk to the UN's Syria humanitarian task force chief. 22:456/10The Beginner finds he has a lot to lose.
| 22:00The presidents of Russia and Turkey say they share a common goal. 22:457/10As the Beginner struggles, the Writer contemplates just how far he'll go to win the prize.
| 22:00We talk to an African-American councillor at Baltimore City Hall. 22:458/10The Beginner makes a plea.
| 22:00How should the US respond to the humanitarian disaster in Aleppo? 22:459/10The Master takes his last chance.
| 22:00Are ordinary Brazilians getting access to the Olympic Games? 22:4510/10The final reckoning.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:152/3The dilemmas faced by couples and medical teams when a baby stops growing in the womb.(R)
| 22:00MPs Tania Mathias and Pat McFadden join Carole Walker to discuss Labour, Brexit and UKIP.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen explores the verbs that are called irregular, and how they came to be.(R) 23:30Aleks Krotoski explores why parents are so fearful of their children's technology use.
| 23:00Brian Cox and Robin Ince take to the stage at the home of radio astronomy, Jodrell Bank.(R) 23:301/4Join Natalie Haynes as she stands up for the Greek playwright Aristophanes.(R)
| 23:001/4Super-sharp everywoman Angela Barnes muses on love, life, and what might come afterwards. 23:154/4A heady combination of maths, science and comedy with The Festival of the Spoken Nerd 23:302/4Join Natalie Haynes for comedy and Classics, as she stands up for Roman poet Ovid.(R)
| 23:001/6Victoria Coren is joined by Lee Mack, David Schneider and Germaine Greer.(R) 23:303/4Natalie Haynes stands up for one of the greatest all-time thinkers, Plato.(R)
| 23:00Alex Salmond chooses Thomas Muir, whom he describes as the father of Scottish democracy.(R) 23:274/4Natalie Haynes stands up for Agrippina the Younger, who bossed it in first century Rome.(R) 23:55Bringing up eight children on her own was not easy, as her youngest daughter acknowledges.
| 23:008/13The wide ranging music quiz, chaired by Paul Gambaccini.(R) 23:302/2Poet Glyn Maxwell leads a poetry masterclass at a dream literature festival.(R)
| 23:00Poet Don Paterson continues his series about great speeches in cinema history.(R) 23:30John McCarthy explores the power of sacred architecture through music, prose and poetry.(R)
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