| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor examines the rights and wrongs of the Research Excellence Framework.(R) 00:45The bells of St Matthew's Church, Stretford, Greater Manchester.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Jamie Parker reads Will Boast's moving account of loss and long-held family secrets.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Jamie Parker reads Will Boast's moving account of loss and coming to terms with the past(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Jamie Parker reads Will Boast's moving account of loss and coming to terms with the past(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Jamie Parker reads Will Boast's moving account of loss and coming to terms with the past.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Jamie Parker reads Will Boast's moving account of loss and coming to terms with the past.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/3Rev Thomas Horne tells the tale of a terrible fire in a travelling theatre in Rotherham.(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 spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. With Andrew Graystone. 05:45New legislation could mean that Scottish farmers get more say in Europe. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Michael Palin presents the harpy eagle flying over the Brazilian rainforest
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. With Andrew Graystone. 05:45MPs call on the government to protect dairy farmers from volatile milk prices. 05:58Michael Palin presents the New Zealand Kakapo
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. With Andrew Graystone. 05:45Will cuts to funding for Rural Community Councils spell the end for some rural services? 05:58Michael Palin presents the Venezuelan horned screamer
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. With Andrew Graystone. 05:45After a court ruling, contaminated silt can no longer be dumped off the Cornish coast. 05:58Michael Palin presents the greater roadrunner of south western North America
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. With Andrew Graystone. 05:45Campylobacter, big machines, rural conference. 05:58Michael Palin presents the snail kite from the Florida Everglades.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Ed Kessler from the Woolf Institute. 05:45'We all took this money, we all partied.' John Humphrys on living in a debt-ridden country
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Nicholas's Church in Leeds, Kent. 05:45David Baddiel explores derivatives. What are they and how do they work?(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Morning news, including a Democracy Day edition of BBC Radio 4's Public Philosopher.
| 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 explores Sir Winston Churchill's family home of Chartwell in Kent.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith visits Lamma, the UK's largest agricultural machinery show. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully asks how we can reconcile the idea of a loving God with an angry one. 06:35Louise Labuschagne shows two English farmers how and why she uses bugs and pesticides. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme with William Crawley. 07:55Charlotte Hawkins presents an appeal on behalf of Motor Neurone Disease Association. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 08:51Susan Hulme with the latest news from Westminster and beyond.
| 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Live from Coventry Cathedral, marking Holocaust Memorial Day. 08:48AL Kennedy reflects on the power of art to sustain the human spirit.(R) 08:58Michael Palin presents the Venezuelan horned screamer(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss surveillance and self-censorship. 09:45Christian worship from Albany Road Baptist Church, Cardiff, led by the Rev Mary Stallard.
| 09:002/3Nick Robinson asks if vested interests dominate our democracy. 09:30Adrian Goldberg meets Rosalind, a Christian who married a Jewish man in the 1970s. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by Bishop Chris Edmondson.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets Barbara Winton, daughter of humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Dr Janet Wootton.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophical movement phenomenology. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by David Waters.
| 09:00Kirsty Young interviews campaigner Dame Julia Cleverdon.(R) 09:45An act of worship and music led by the Rev Ernie Rea.
| 09:00Architect and TV presenter George Clarke joins Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Why do we eat in secret, and when does it count as an eating disorder? 10:4511/15Chip Lambert's happy interlude in Vilnius comes to an abrupt end.
| 10:00Helen and Laura Pankhurst, Baroness D'Souza and Girl Guides discuss women and democracy. 10:4512/15Alfred and Enid have recovered from the traumatic events of their north Atlantic cruise.
| 10:00Marine Le Pen, sexism in the restaurant trade and female representatives in Davos. 10:4013/15Denise's arrival for a St Jude family Christmas stirs some uncomfortable truths. 10:55A serious head injury devastated Brian's career and he thought it had lost him his family.
| 10:00Beyond Clueless - how influential are teenage film heroines? 10:4514/15The prodigal Chip returns home for Christmas.
| 10:00Plus-size fashion; lesbians on TV; the real tennis sisters; Sarah Jane Morris. 10:4515/15Alfred's departure heralds changes for all the Lamberts.
| 10:307/7Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from York.
| 10:00There is bad news for Ed and a horrible shock for Lilian.
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| 11:00 | 11:001/3Jolyon Jenkins investigates the shadowy world of online unregulated sperm donation. 11:303/4New sitcom. Ardal O'Hanlon plays an idiot angel who's sent to earth to fix his mistakes.
| 11:00A panel of experts choose an object they feel represents our relationship with nature. 11:30Laura Barton pieces together the true story of Abner Jay, a most unusual musical talent.
| 11:00Jane Garvey's world of knitting - full of rebels, musicians, jailbirds and reality TV.(R) 11:304/4Inspector Lestrade introduces Sherlock Holmes's rival Dr James Thorndike.
| 11:00Includes items on the election in Greece and other global preoccupations. 11:30John Cooper Clarke looks back at the life of broadcaster and folk singer, Ewan MacColl.
| 11:00William Crawley visits Winston Churchill's final resting place in Bladon, Oxfordshire 11:304/6Mark Steel visits Southall in Middlesex for another programme of travelling stand-up.(R)
| 11:00Isabel Hardman of the Spectator looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Athens, Davos, Blantyre, Auschwitz and Grytviken - correspondents tell their stories.
| 11:15Kirsty Young's castaway is microbiologist Professor Peter Piot.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what makes us human. 12:15Winifred Robinson looks at portable mortgages, voucher stacking and church music. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Simon Schaffer on botanist Carl Linnaeus who first classified humans among the apes 12:15Do you feel comfortable with the level of inequality in Britain today? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Only humans know they will die. Catharine Edwards on the Stoic philosopher Seneca 12:15The sick and elderly suffer a billion pound cut to social care, claims Age UK. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Philosopher Barry Smith on Noam Chomsky and human language
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Theologian Giles Fraser on Wittgenstein and Blade Runner 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Is Citizens Advice ready for the pensions revolution? Currency jitters and Lloyds bonds. 12:303/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a comic take on the week's news.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:044/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's comedy panel game(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon lifts the lid on powdered baby milk. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:451/10Churchill was a keen bricklayer, but did he have anything in common with the working man?(R)
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:452/10Historian Sir David Cannadine enjoys Winston Churchill's prodigious appetite for food.(R)
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:453/10Sir David Cannadine explores Winston Churchill's first career as a journalist.(R)
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Martha Kearney. 13:454/10Sir David Cannadine explores Winston Churchill's family life.(R)
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:455/10Sir David Cannadine explores Winston Churchill's complicated relationship with education.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby with Bea Campbell, Peter Hain MP, Owen Paterson MP and Steve Webb MP.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:30Jolyon Jenkins meets the women of Verona who answer letters sent to Shakespeare's Juliet(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:151/10The second series of the criminal family saga, from 1961-70, based on GF Newman's novel.
| 14:152/10The second series of the criminal family saga, from 1961-70, based on GF Newman's novel.
| 14:153/10The second series of the criminal family saga, from 1961-70, based on GF Newman's novel
| 14:154/10The second series of the criminal family saga, from 1961-70, based on GF Newman's novel
| 14:00Lynda tells David what she thinks.(R) 14:155/10The second series of the criminal family saga, from 1961-70, based on GF Newman's novel.
| 14:00Listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Drama of Longfellow's epic poem of Native American mythology concerning life and nature.
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Arundel Castle, West Sussex.(R) 14:45Fi Glover with conversations about musical careers, whistleblowing and apologising.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Russell Davies chairs another heat of the general knowledge quiz. 15:30Sheila Dillon and guests discuss what a food market needs for success in 2015.(R)
| 15:006/7Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from Peterborough.(R) 15:302/4Michael and the Zoo team put the 'I knew it all along' effect under the microscope.
| 15:00Financial phone-in on insurance, with advice on premiums, policies and claims. 15:30Dr Mark Porter on mutant flu, weight-loss surgery, six packs and 'dry January'.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark explores Sir Winston Churchill's family home of Chartwell in Kent. 15:27Jonathan Dimbleby presents an appeal on behalf of Book Aid International.(R) 15:30Canadian writer Emma Hooper on her first book, Etta and Otto and Russell and James.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Arundel Castle, West Sussex. 15:453/3Robert McLiam Wilson's story about terrorism striking his adopted city, Paris.
| 15:30Laura Barton pieces together the true story of Abner Jay, a most unusual musical talent.(R)
| 15:001/2Lewis Grassic Gibbon's sequel to Sunset Song, dramatised by Donna Franceschild.
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| 16:00 | 16:00How did subliminal advertising begin, and does it work? David Aaronovitch investigates. 16:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince tackle the science of deception.
| 16:00Michael Rosen on the use of language analysis to judge asylum seekers' country of origin. 16:30Journalist Eve Pollard explores Hollywood screenwriter Nora Ephron with Matthew Parris.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor on dissident Irish republicans, plus a tribute to sociologist Ulrich Beck. 16:30The end of Page 3, Josie Cunningham's media strategy and Sir Alan Moses on press freedom.
| 16:00Alex Garland on Ex Machina, Liz Fraser's career, and JC Chandor on A Most Violent Year. 16:30Proposed failsafe for genetically modified organisms and the International Year of Light.
| 16:00Obituary series: Matthew Bannister on a politician, a king, an academic and an actress. 16:30Tim Harford asks if the majority of hate crime in the UK is directed against Jewish people 16:55Implicated in a serious incident at work, Rab turned whistleblower and was finally cleared
| 16:00Secret eating - when does it become a problem? Women and democracy. Coming-of-age films.
| 16:00Writer David Lodge discusses his new memoir, plus a librarian from the Orkney Library. 16:30Roger McGough hosts the Poetry Please Burns supper, with reader John MacKay.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn presents interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn presents interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn presents interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn presents interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30'We all took this money, we all partied.' John Humphrys on living in a debt-ridden country(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Benefit sanctions are aimed at shirkers, but is the system also penalising the vulnerable?(R) 17:406/8Ex-Private Eye contributor Barry Fantoni creates a fictional response to the week's news.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's comedy panel game
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Marcus Brigstocke persuades Gyles Brandreth to try doing absolutely nothing.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Stephen K Amos's teenage years in 1980s south London.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Bridget tries to find an icon who will not replace the word 'feminism' with 'bootylicious'
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a comic take on the week's news.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Musician Mark Ronson, novelist Michael Chabon, falconer Helen Macdonald and painter Rubens 19:4511/15Chip Lambert's happy interlude in Vilnius comes to an abrupt end.(R)
| 19:15A review of Ex Machina, director Jamie Lloyd and authors Max Brooks and Emma Healey. 19:4512/15Alfred and Enid have recovered from the traumatic events of their north Atlantic cruise.(R)
| 19:15Author Samantha Shannon, Bjork's new album and head of Disney animation Andrew Millstein. 19:4513/15Denise's arrival for a St Jude family Christmas stirs some uncomfortable truths.(R)
| 19:00Lynda tells David what she thinks. 19:15Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including Johnny Depp and Paul Bettany on new film Mortdecai. 19:4514/15The prodigal Chip returns home for Christmas.(R)
| 19:00The villagers are dancing. 19:15Jessica Chastain, Ali Smith, Bob Copper remembered and a review of self-portraiture. 19:4515/15Alfred's departure heralds changes for all the Lamberts.(R)
| 19:006/8Ex-Private Eye contributor Barry Fantoni creates a fictional response to the week's news. 19:15RSC's Oppenheimer, Dont Let Him Know, A Most Violent Year and Rubens and His Legacy.
| 19:00Adam and Charlie have a chat. 19:151/6Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman and Nigel Planer send up the Bloomsbury literary group.(R) 19:453/3By Alison MacLeod. Three not very radical young men team-build on Brighton beach.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Ian Marchant drives across the midwest to learn how barbed wire privatised America.(R) 20:30The cleaners who have raised their rubber gloves in defiance of Greek public sector cuts.(R)
| 20:00Benefit sanctions are aimed at shirkers, but is the system also penalising the vulnerable? 20:40Making voting more accessible for visually impaired people; Molly Watt on Usher syndrome.
| 20:00Clive Anderson asks what difference a new Bill of Rights would make to UK citizens. 20:45David Baddiel explores derivatives. What are they and how do they work?
| 20:00Pegida, Germany's anti-Islamisation movement, is growing fast. Catrin Nye investigates. 20:30Peter Day discusses the potential impact of the world's biggest trade deal.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby with Bea Campbell, Peter Hain MP, Owen Paterson MP and Steve Webb MP. 20:50AL Kennedy reflects on the power of art to sustain the human spirit.
| 20:00How did subliminal advertising begin, and does it work? David Aaronovitch investigates.(R) 20:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince tackle the science of deception.(R)
| 20:00Tim Harford asks if the majority of hate crime in the UK is directed against Jewish people(R) 20:30Obituary series: Matthew Bannister on a politician, a king, an academic and an actress.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Should half the earth be set aside for wildlife? Monty Don and panel of experts discuss.(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss surveillance and self-censorship.(R)
| 21:00Dr Mark Porter on mutant flu, weight-loss surgery, six packs and 'dry January'. 21:302/3Nick Robinson asks if vested interests dominate our democracy.(R)
| 21:002/2Bethany, Emma and Tanya, raised male, are seeking treatment as trans women.(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets Barbara Winton, daughter of humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton.(R)
| 21:00Proposed failsafe for genetically modified organisms and the International Year of Light.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophical movement phenomenology.(R)
| 21:00Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the philosophical question of what makes us human.
| 21:004/10After Lise's death, Pierre tries to console a broken Andrei. John Hurt stars.(R)
| 21:00Is Citizens Advice ready for the pensions revolution? Currency jitters and Lloyds bonds.(R) 21:26Charlotte Hawkins presents an appeal on behalf of Motor Neurone Disease Association.(R) 21:30Peter Day discusses the potential impact of the world's biggest trade deal.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Pontiff says teaching does not mean people have no control over number of children. 22:456/10Soho in 1936. A story of love, murder and a society dancing towards the abyss.
| 22:00British man who faked own death fighting in Syria admits terror offences. 22:457/10Soho in 1936. A story of love, murder and a society dancing towards the abyss.
| 22:00Violence has flared between Ukrainian troops and separatist rebels in past week 22:458/10Soho in 1936. A story of love, murder and a society dancing towards the abyss.
| 22:00Prince says he wanted to "reiterate" statements issued by Palace rejecting the claim. 22:459/10Soho in 1936. A story of love, murder and a society dancing towards the abyss.
| 22:00Ahead of Sunday's Election, anti-austerity activists gather, hoping for Syriza win. 22:4510/10Soho in 1936. A story of love, murder and a society dancing towards the abyss.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Clive Anderson asks what difference a new Bill of Rights would make to UK citizens.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Olly Duff of the i newspaper analyses how the papers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Philip Pullman and Michael Rosen talk in depth about language and writing.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Sean Curran and Susan Hulme present a special one-hour edition of Today in Parliament.
| 23:003/4Merriment, melancholy and witty wordplay in equal measure. 23:153/6Simon surprises everyone when he tells his story of being a war correspondent. 23:30David Cameron faces MPs' anger at delays in publication of the report into the Iraq War.
| 23:003/4A bizarre world featuring the likes of forgotten silver screen star Anna Mann. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Journalist Eve Pollard explores Hollywood screenwriter Nora Ephron with Matthew Parris.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55The brothers who formed the band Tinlin reflect on how their musical careers began.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs another heat of the general knowledge quiz.(R) 23:30Roger McGough presents poetry to make you laugh.(R)
| 23:005/13Guy Raz investigates if we are the sum of our experiences, or can we choose our own path? 23:50AL Kennedy reflects on the power of art to sustain the human spirit.(R)
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