| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor on dissident Irish republicans, plus a tribute to sociologist Ulrich Beck.(R) 00:45The bells of St Nicholas's Church in Leeds, Kent.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Peter Pomerantsev on modern Russia's journey from communism to a new form of dictatorship.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Vitaly, a notorious gangster turned film director, summons Peter for a private audience.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5The nightmarish ordeal of a businesswoman falsely imprisoned for drug trafficking.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Peter meets a 'guardian spirit' of Old Moscow, defender of its historic architecture.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Peter Pomerantsev considers Russia's shift from communism to a new form of dictatorship.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3AL Kennedy relates what befell her whilst finishing her latest novel in the USA.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 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 Ed Kessler from the Woolf Institute. 05:45A group of MPs call for a moratorium on fracking. Presented by Charlotte Smith. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Michael Palin presents the red-eyed vireo from North America.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Ed Kessler from the Woolf Institute. 05:45The farming minister claims that better times are ahead for farmers. 05:58Michael Palin presents the common poorwill from an Arizona desert.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Ed Kessler from the Woolf Institute. 05:45Anna Hill hears about reform proposals aimed at revitalising tenant farming in Scotland. 05:58Michael Palin presents the oilbird, from a Venezuelan cavern
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Ed Kessler from the Woolf Institute. 05:45A fracking moratorium is announced for Scotland until more research has been carried out. 05:58Michael Palin presents the black sicklebill of New Guinea.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Ed Kessler from the Woolf Institute. 05:45Supermarkets that treat suppliers unfairly could be fined millions. 05:58Michael Palin presents the kea from a windswept mountain in New Zealand.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Clair Jaquiss. 05:45'I wish they'd all wear tents.' One listener worries that thin people will be a minority.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Mary Magdalene Church in Chewton Mendip, Somerset. 05:45David Baddiel tries to understand the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam.(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 the Ring of Gullion in Northern Ireland.(R) 06:30Anna Hill meets a dairy farmer diversifying into bottling his own milk. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully searches for new approaches to private space in an increasingly crowded world. 06:35Brett Westwood heads to Cambridgeshire in search of one of Britain's rarest vertebrate. 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, presented by Edward Stourton. 07:55Julie Walters presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Women's Aid. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31The best of Monday in the Commons and the Lords with Sean Curran.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Seek the prosperity of the city. Live from Lisburn Cathedral in Co Antrim. 08:48Will Self laments diminishing personal contact as a result of the rise of technology.(R) 08:58Michael Palin presents the oilbird, from a Venezuelan cavern(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss creativity and the organised mind. 09:45An act of worship from St Peter's Church in Belfast, led by Canon Simon Doogan.
| 09:003/3Nick Robinson asks if Parliament itself might be the obstacle to improving our democracy. 09:30Adrian Goldberg meets Mandy, of Sikh and Hindu heritage, married to an Afro-Caribbean man. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets Cathy Tyson, Sir Tim Smit, Adam Cohen and Rupert Harry Miller. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by the Rev Clair Jaquiss.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek historian Thucydides. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Katharine Longworth.
| 09:00Kirsty Young's castaway is microbiologist Professor Peter Piot.(R) 09:45An Act of Worship from Cardiff led by Canon Edwin Counsell.
| 09:00Comedian and actor Omid Djalili joins Richard Coles and Suzy Klein.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Jane Garvey asks whether there will be changes for Saudi women with a new ruler in place. 10:451/5Lou Ramsden's comedy drama about wheelchair user Maz. Starring Cherylee Houston.
| 10:00Jane Garvey presents an edition discussing menstruation, Mars and mathematics. 10:452/5Maz begins her mission to try and raise the money for her flight to the Seychelles.
| 10:00Should briefing for juries on sex cases be mandatory? Plus poet Sabrina Mafhouz. 10:403/5Maz decides to take handsome temp Ollie up on his offer of a date. 10:55After her mother lost her voice box to cancer, Geraldine wanted to talk to her about it.
| 10:00Jenni Murray speaks to Sofie Grabol about new television crime thriller Fortitude. 10:454/5A very nervous Maz arrives at the airport for her first trip abroad as a wheelchair user.
| 10:00Jenni Murray and guests discuss how Manet changed the depiction of women in art. 10:455/5Maz arrives in the Seychelles, with the chiselled cheek-boned best man for Lisa's wedding.
| 10:30Vishva Samani explores author JD Salinger's enduring relationship with Hindu philosophy.
| 10:00Contemporary drama in a rural setting.
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| 11:00 | 11:002/3Jolyon Jenkins explores Esperanto, the language designed to bring world peace and harmony. 11:304/4Ardal O'Hanlon plays an idiot angel who's sent to earth to fix his mistakes.
| 11:00Michael Rosen commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day and looks at how we choose to remember. 11:30Marc Riley explores the BBC archive to unearth interviews with David Bowie and Iggy Pop.
| 11:001/3Anne-Marie Duff narrates stories of survival and resilience on Coventry's ring road. 11:301/4Alun takes us on a stand-up tour of his house.(R)
| 11:00Demo and counter-demo as Germans argue about Pegida. Presented by Kate Adie. 11:30Miles Warde explores the life of American photographer Ansel Adams(R)
| 11:00Dr Lucie Green takes a sonic tour of the Universe, revealing the hidden sounds of space. 11:305/6Mark visits Birkenhead, Wirral, where the local life has included monks and a Bantam Army.(R)
| 11:00Paul Waugh of PoliticsHome looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30How Ebola has divided families, neighbours and communities in Guinea.
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to Angie Hobbs, professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Melvyn Bragg is joined by Tom Chatfield, Gabriel Weston, Justin Champion and Matt Pope. 12:15Should pension firms be able to stop you removing money? And we're making fewer casseroles 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Tom Chatfield on whether modern technology enhances or diminishes us. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Historian Justin Champion on 17th-century polymath Francis Bacon. 12:15Why contractors aren't celebrating the Green Deal's second birthday. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Surgeon Gabriel Weston sees how medical technology has changed us.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Archaeologist Matt pope looks at the role of technology in early human evolution. 12:15Have people with disabilities been let down by reform of the blue badge system? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04A new type of bank fraud, a pension revolution, comparison websites and bank compensation. 12:304/6Steve 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. 12:045/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's comedy panel game(R) 12:32Dan Saladino discovers a global movement rethinking our most widely-grown food crop, wheat 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:456/10Historian Sir David Cannadine explores Winston's Churchill's love affair with cinema.(R)
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:457/10Sir David Cannadine explores Churchill's attitude to women.(R)
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:458/10Sir David Cannadine explores Winston Churchill's vexed relationship with money.(R)
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:459/10Sir David Cannadine explores how painting was the hobby that meant most to Churchill.(R)
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:4510/10Sir David Cannadine examines Churchill's lifelong fascination with gadgets and technology.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby with Tom Crotty, Lord Deben, Margaret Hodge MP and Julian Huppert MP.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:30Giles Fraser explores the personal moral response to inequality.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Adam and Charlie have a chat.(R) 14:156/10The second series of the criminal family saga, from 1961-70, based on GF Newman's novel.
| 14:00Lilian confides in Jolene.(R) 14:157/10The second series of the criminal family saga, from 1961-70, based on GF Newman's novel.
| 14:00Jennifer bites the bullet.(R) 14:158/10The second series of the criminal family saga, from 1961-70, based on GF Newman's novel.
| 14:159/10The second series of the criminal family saga, from 1961-70, based on GF Newman's novel.
| 14:00Phoebe tells it like it is.(R) 14:1510/10The 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? Presented by Anita Anand. 14:30Noel Coward's play follows a few days in the life of self-obsessed actor Garry Essendine.(R)
| 14:00Peter Gibbs is at the University of Reading for a correspondence edition of the programme.(R) 14:45Mothers and daughters talk about art, blindness and the importance of conversation.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz, with Russell Davies asking the questions. 15:30Sheila Dillon lifts the lid on powdered baby milk.(R)
| 15:007/7Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from York.(R) 15:303/4Michael Blastland and the Zoo team explore information avoidance and denial.
| 15:00Ask Paul Lewis about your state pension. Call on Wednesday or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. 15:30Increased risk of dementia from common drugs; and is going gluten free good for you?(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark visits the Ring of Gullion in Northern Ireland. 15:27Charlotte Hawkins presents an appeal on behalf of Motor Neurone Disease Association.(R) 15:30Writer David Lodge discusses his new memoir, plus a librarian from the Orkney Library.(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs is at the University of Reading for a correspondence edition of the programme. 15:451/6A woman considers the role of numbers in her life.
| | 15:002/2Tensions in the town grow as Chris and Robert help the spinners prepare for strike action.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Sanjeev Bhaskar presents his favourite pieces of writing to the Radio Theatre audience. 16:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince tackle (verbally!) the most dangerous creatures on the planet.
| 16:00Tanya Byron and Michael Rosen discuss the language parents use to talk to their children. 16:30Mervyn King champions the life of the former Prime Minister of Finland Risto Ryti.
| 16:00A cultural history of migraine. Also 'pramfaces' - denigrating the working class? 16:30Steve Hewlett explores the future of news, Page 3 and the Sun, and entertainment shows.
| 16:00Paul Thomas Anderson on Inherent Vice. Stephen Daldry on Trash. Kids clubs remembered. 16:30Perceptions of climate change, the Anthropocene era and a new theory of cell evolution.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a singer, a novelist, a social worker and a pop star. 16:30The Conservatives' employment claims, milk, teachers, dating and pregnancy due dates. 16:55Blinded by an illness that nearly killed her, Moira's daughter gave her a reason to go on.
| 16:00Sofie Grabol on her new TV thriller Fortitude, and the taboo around discussing periods.
| 16:00Judith Kerr discusses her classic novel for children When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. 16:30Roger McGough with requests for wintry poems.
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| 17:00 | 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.
| 17:00News 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. 17:30How should we price services? By the hour, by results or by the difficulty of the task?(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00With so much pressure on the NHS, why are we still so short of nurses? Jane Deith reports.(R) 17:407/8Journalist Peter Bradshaw creates a fictional response to a story in 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. 18:305/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's comedy panel game
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Marcus Brigstocke persuades Reece Shearsmith to have a driving lesson and try wallpapering
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Mad about the monarchy. Stephen K Amos's teenage years in 1980s south London.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/4Bridget talks about why she is not grateful Russell Brand has stopped being a sexist.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:304/6Steve 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. 18:15Sheila McClennon chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Lilian confides in Jolene. 19:15Samira Ahmed talks to Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar about Kingsman: The Secret Service. 19:451/5Lou Ramsden's comedy drama about wheelchair user Maz. Starring Cherylee Houston.(R)
| 19:00Jennifer bites the bullet. 19:15Inherent Vice reviewed, new play Dara, teen film tropes and the Cotton to Gold exhibition. 19:452/5Maz begins her mission to try and raise the money for her flight to the Seychelles.(R)
| 19:15David Oyelowo on Selma, Costa-winner Helen Macdonald, Bob Dylan album review, Joanna Marsh 19:453/5Maz decides to take handsome temp Ollie up on his offer of a date.(R)
| 19:00Phoebe tells it like it is. 19:15Reviews of Trash and Tom Stoppard's play The Hard Problem, Andrew O'Hagan, Chilly Gonzales 19:454/5A very nervous Maz arrives at the airport for her first trip abroad as a wheelchair user.(R)
| 19:00Motherly comfort for Phoebe. 19:15Leviathan, Amelia Bullmore, the art of the Battle of Waterloo at Windsor, Son of a Gun. 19:455/5Maz arrives in the Seychelles, with the chiselled cheek-boned best man for Lisa's wedding.(R)
| 19:007/8Journalist Peter Bradshaw creates a fictional response to a story in the week's news. 19:15Tom Stoppard, Inherent Vice, Adam Curtis, Joyce Carol Oates and Christian Marclay.
| 19:152/6Plagued by writer's block, novelist Ginny Fox visits Vera and Henry at their castle.(R) 19:45The discovery of a body turns an archaeological dig into a crime scene.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Carole Hayman serves time in a secure unit for men detained under the Mental Health Act. 20:30Lucy Ash explores maskirovka, the Russia strategy of military deception.
| 20:00With so much pressure on the NHS, why are we still so short of nurses? Jane Deith reports. 20:40Can simulating blindness have a negative impact on attitudes? Peter White investigates.
| 20:00Clive Anderson asks if the UK legal system is letting down the victims of rape. 20:45David Baddiel tries to understand the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam.
| 20:00France wants its Muslims to be more French, but where does this leave their identity? 20:30How should we price services? By the hour, by results or by the difficulty of the task?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby with Tom Crotty, Lord Deben, Margaret Hodge MP and Julian Huppert MP. 20:50Will Self laments diminishing personal contact as a result of the rise of technology.
| 20:00Billy Bragg explores the politics behind the work of folklorist Alan Lomax.
| 20:00The Conservatives' employment claims, milk, teachers, dating and pregnancy due dates.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a businessman, a singer, a novelist, a social worker and a pop star.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00A panel of experts choose an object they feel represents our relationship with nature.(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss creativity and the organised mind.(R)
| 21:00Increased risk of dementia from common drugs; and is going gluten free good for you? 21:303/3Nick Robinson asks if Parliament itself might be the obstacle to improving our democracy.(R)
| 21:001/2Horatio Clare discovers how infantry soldiers are shaped by the Brecon Beacons' landscape(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets Cathy Tyson, Sir Tim Smit, Adam Cohen and Rupert Harry Miller.(R)
| 21:00Perceptions of climate change, the Anthropocene era and a new theory of cell evolution.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek historian Thucydides.(R)
| 21:00Five programmes examining how technology has changed us, from flint axe to satnav.
| 21:005/10Natasha's life is about to change forever. Lesley Manville stars.(R)
| 21:00A new type of bank fraud, a pension revolution, comparison websites and bank compensation.(R) 21:26Julie Walters presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Women's Aid.(R) 21:30Lucy Ash explores maskirovka, the Russia strategy of military deception.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Germany rules out writing off Greece's debts, warns Athens to honour commitments. 22:451/5A young sailor buys an enchanted bottle, but soon regrets it.
| 22:00PM suggests winter fuel payments will be protected from welfare cuts, if Tories win 22:452/5Returning to Hawaii, Keawe discovers that the bottle has begun to work its sinister magic.
| 22:00Alexis Tsipras tells Cabinet meeting priority is to address "humanitarian disaster" 22:453/5Free of the bottle and newly engaged, Keawe's happiness is unbound... but fate intervenes.
| 22:00IS threat to kill Jordanian pilot and Japanese journalist if Iraqi prisoner not released 22:454/5Keawe and Kokua's marriage is overshadowed by the bottle's malign presence.
| 22:00Former death squad commander Eugene de Kock given parole after 20 years in jail. 22:455/5Discovering Kokua's sacrifice, Keawe resolves to save his beloved, no matter what the cost
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Clive Anderson asks if the UK legal system is letting down the victims of rape.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45John Kampfner analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen on the use of language analysis to judge asylum seekers' country of origin.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Brian Cox and Robin Ince tackle (verbally!) the most dangerous creatures on the planet.(R) 23:30Wrongly sent 'comfort letters' to people on the run. Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:004/4Quirky sketches and poems with merriment and melancholy in equal measure. 23:154/6Andy has a date for the first time in... well, longer than he would like to admit. 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:004/4Bizarre exhibits including wannabe Hollywood screenwriter Andy Parker. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Mervyn King champions the life of the former Prime Minister of Finland Risto Ryti.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55A daughter praises her mother's ability to pass on artistic inspiration without preaching.
| 23:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz, with Russell Davies asking the questions.(R) 23:30Roger McGough hosts the Poetry Please Burns supper, with reader John MacKay.(R)
| 23:00Paul Thomas Anderson on Inherent Vice. Stephen Daldry on Trash. Kids clubs remembered.(R) 23:30Mark Tully searches for new approaches to private space in an increasingly crowded world.(R)
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