| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15A cultural history of migraine. Also 'pramfaces' - denigrating the working class?(R) 00:45The bells of St Mary Magdalene Church in Chewton Mendip, Somerset.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Poet Robert Crawford's biography of one of the great figures of 20th-century literature.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Harvard, Paris and beyond. Robert Crawford's biography of poet TS Eliot.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Cambridge University and meeting Vivien. Robert Crawford's biography of poet TS Eliot.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Working at a bank and The Waste Land. Robert Crawford's biography of poet TS Eliot.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Literary greats and The Waste Land. Robert Crawford's biography of poet TS Eliot.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3AL Kennedy on the warmth of the reception she met on a slow train across to California.(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 the Rev Clair Jaquiss. 05:45The Red Tractor group propose a change to their beef assurance scheme. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Michael Palin presents the scarlet macaw from Costa Rica.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Clair Jaquiss. 05:45A halal abattoir is under investigation by the Food Standards Agency. 05:58Michael Palin presents the iconic bald eagle from Alaska.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Clair Jaquiss. 05:45The price of organic milk has gone up in the shops, but what are farmers getting for it? 05:58Michael Palin presents the wild budgerigar from Australia.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Clair Jaquiss. 05:45Why the Irish government is putting over 25 million euro in the country's dairy industry. 05:58Michael Palin presents the magnificent frigatebird a true oceanic bird.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Clair Jaquiss. 05:45An action plan for Scottish dairy farmers, but a further price cut for Muller suppliers. 05:58Michael Palin presents the black-nest swiftlet deep inside an Indonesian cavern
| 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 Richard Littledale. 05:45Why birdwatching is such a gift for one listener and her mother, who has dementia.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford. 05:451/3Dominic Lawson asks the environmentalist Mark Lynas why he now supports GM crops.(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 finds out about the landscape and people of Shetland.(R) 06:30As lambing gathers pace, Charlotte Smith looks at the prospects for sheep farming in 2015. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Samira Ahmed reflects on the lists people make and what they can reveal about our lives. 06:35Trai Anfield finds the wildlife on the wintry shores of Devon. 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. 07:10HRH the Prince of Wales talks to Diane Louise Jordan about Christians in the Middle East. 07:55Simon Callow presents an appeal on behalf of Target Tuberculosis. 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 on the best of Thursday in the Commons and the Lords.
| 08:51Susan Hulme with the latest news from Westminster and beyond.
| 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Mass for the fifth Sunday of the year live from Brentwood Cathedral. 08:48Will Self reflects on the growing divide between people with and without children.(R) 08:58Michael Palin presents the wild budgerigar from Australia.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Patrick Cockburn, Leena Hoffmann, Katherine Brown and Gerard Russell. 09:45A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and Christian music.
| 09:001/2Robert Peston explores the alarmingly widening gap between rich and poor since the 1980s. 09:30Charlotte Smith looks at how useful self-help groups are for the chronically ill. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets actor Bonnie Langford and Nick Wisdom, son of Norman. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Indian ruler Ashoka the Great. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music.
| 09:00Kirsty Young talks to Angie Hobbs, professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy.(R) 09:45An Act of Worship led by the Rev Peter Baker.
| 09:00Presenters Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by actor and writer Ruth Jones.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Jane Garvey hears what women think about the election. 10:451/5Filmmaker Jen travels to the Antarctic as part of the skeleton overwintering crew.
| 10:00Singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading, legacy of the pill, Birds of a Feather's Linda Robson. 10:452/5Tensions are running high in camp and Jen has found something half buried in the ice.
| 10:00The NHS, Deeyah Khan and women in construction. 10:403/5It is midwinter and the giving of gifts turns sour as Jen makes an accidental discovery. 10:55It can take three months to make a guitar, but for these two men it is time well-spent.
| 10:00Women and Jobseeker's Allowance, sterilisation in your twenties and Joanne Mjadzelics. 10:454/5Winter seems to last forever. And then the team makes a shocking discovery.
| 10:00FGM, 'ask her more', holidays without children and author Katharine Norbury. 10:455/5Jen comes to understand the repercussions of what she found. But there is hope too.
| 10:301/3Nazis and Hollywood, Dunkirk and roses - Paul Gambaccini on 1942 classic film Mrs Miniver.
| 10:00Charlie speaks his mind, and the pressure is on Ed.
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| 11:00 | 11:003/3Jolyon Jenkins meets the people zapping their brains with DIY electrical devices. 11:301/4Sitcom set in a failing, flailing architectural practice. Stars Geoffrey Whitehead.
| 11:00Claudia Hammond investigates sporting concussions and asks how safe our sports are. 11:30Marc Riley delves into the BBC archive to unearth interviews with Frank Zappa and Lou Reed
| 11:002/3Anne-Marie Duff narrates stories of resilience and survival on Wolverhampton's ring road. 11:302/4Alun's house tour arrives in his living room.(R)
| 11:00Reports from journalists, with stories from Ukraine, Pakistan, India, Egypt and Mali. 11:30Hardeep Singh Kohli discovers and explores the world of internet personalities.
| 11:00Can the Indian group which owns Jaguar Land Rover maintain its ethical reputation? 11:306/6Mark Steel visits Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, the home of Last of the Summer Wine.(R)
| 11:00Isabel Hardman of the Spectator looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Jordan hits back at Islamic State, plus dispatches from Canada, Hungary, China and Finland
| 11:15Kirsty Young talks to garden designer Dan Pearson.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The Wilson household can only keep baby Peter a secret for so long. 12:15Self-harm admissions to A&E rise as cuts to young people's mental health services deepen. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Kitty discovers that the further she travels, the less she understands. 12:15Has becoming an academy improved the schools of callers' children? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Despite the profits of war, factory owner Geoffrey Marshall cannot rest on his laurels. 12:15Learning disability care, Which? subscriptions and emotional support from pets on planes. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Six weeks after the birth of her third baby, Cressida is ready to get back in the saddle. 12:15Consumer news, investigating the growing world of temporary and agency work.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Robert Lyle never expected today to bring this many challenges. 12:15Blacklisted mobile phones, care home exit fees and ukuleles. With Peter White. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Opting out of winter fuel payments, more phone fraud victims and costly closet trackers. 12:305/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:046/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's comedy panel game(R) 12:32The UK's guilty secret? Sheila Dillon charts the 60-year shift from pot to ping. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:451/5The dramatic account of a kidnap in Syria and the escape, by Jack Hill of the Times.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Shaun Ley. 13:452/5Dylan Martinez of Reuters on the drama of the 2014 World Cup final in Brazil.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Edward Stourton. 13:453/5The photographers of Document Scotland on the independence referendum.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Edward Stourton. 13:454/5How the photographers of South West News Service covered the Somerset floods.
| 13:00Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Edward Stourton. 13:455/5Nick Danziger travels to Uganda to find three orphan sisters he photographed in 2005.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Debate with Scott Fletcher, Lisa Nandy MP, Molly Scott Cato MEP and Grant Shapps MP.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:30Charlie Beckett explores whether news is bad for us and how it could be done differently.
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| 14:00 | 14:15Andrew Scott and Charlotte Riley play expert liars meeting in an ocular prosthetics clinic(R)
| 14:151/3Two teachers at an international school in Manila kidnap a child in their care.(R)
| 14:00There is a showdown on the dance floor.(R) 14:15It is 2019. How might the UK exit from the EU affect the country it shares a border with?
| 14:00Charlie speaks his mind.(R) 14:15By Michael Symmons Roberts. Following three men through one night in Manchester.(R)
| 14:15A meteorite explodes over the North Yorkshire coast. Four lonely lives change forever.
| 14:00Listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions? 14:30Jeremy Irons reads TS Eliot's four linked meditations.(R)
| 14:00Eric Robson chairs the programme from West Scotland.(R) 14:45The craft of guitar-making, the art of puppetry and the philosophy of wild swimming.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The latest heat of the long-running general knowledge quiz, with Russell Davies. 15:30Dan Saladino discovers a global movement rethinking our most widely-grown food crop, wheat(R)
| 15:00Tom Holland returns with a new series of the programme with a passion for the past. 15:304/4Michael Blastland and the Zoo team look ahead to the general election.
| 15:00Ruth Alexander and a panel of guests answer calls on setting up a power of attorney. 15:30Rebecca Morelle examines how children could be born with DNA from three people.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark finds out about the landscape and people of Shetland. 15:27Julie Walters presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Women's Aid.(R) 15:30Judith Kerr discusses her classic novel for children When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson chairs the programme from West Scotland. 15:452/6A family's struggle with hardship in Imperial Japan seen through the eyes of a child.
| 15:45Photographer Andrew Heptinstall's quest to represent sound within a photograph.
| 15:001/2When Norah's terrifying father calls, she is forced to leave Paris and journey to Dakar.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Writer and gardener Carol Klein shares her favourite pieces of writing. 16:30Brian Cox, Robin Ince and guests talk about the latest explorations of our solar system.
| 16:00How much of today's law really comes from Magna Carta? 16:30Frankie Boyle and Maureen Lipman talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor on the Muslim Brotherhood, plus a study into privately educated young women. 16:30BBC Trust head's first major speech, the battle for sports rights, Sky's Fortitude.
| 16:00Ava DuVernay discusses Selma, Eddie Marsan talks about Still Life, plus S&M in films. 16:30Hunting tactics of goshawks and the men who invented the contraceptive pill and the laser.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister talks about an author, a president, a chemist, an actress and a diver. 16:30Tim Harford looks at claims that keen runners might be damaging their health. 16:55Meditation and wild swimming apparently have a lot in common. Fi Glover presents.
| 16:00What do women think about the election? Plus Joan Armatrading and child-free holidays.
| 16:00SJ Watson, best-selling author of Before I Go to Sleep, discusses new novel Second Life. 16:30Roger McGough introduces poems requested by listeners on the theme of love.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Carolyn Quinn with coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00News interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn with coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00News interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Cars, cosmetics and convenience stores: What are the secrets to retailing success?(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Is the middle class in decline? The divide between a rich elite and those now clinging on.(R) 17:408/8By Annie McCartney. People are told daily that the NHS is in crisis, but why?(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. 18:306/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's comedy panel game
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6The double Olympic champion tries her first deep-fried Mars bar.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Guests not welcome. Stephen K Amos's teenage years in 1980s South London.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/6Comedy panel game show in which British comedians compete against comics from overseas.(R)
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:305/6Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.
| 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. 18:15Stuart Maconie chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:15George the Poet, RIBA Gold Medallists, film Still Life reviewed, Michelangelo bronzes. 19:451/5Filmmaker Jen travels to the Antarctic as part of the skeleton overwintering crew.(R)
| 19:00There is a showdown on the dance floor. 19:15Harper Lee's new book, writer William Nicholson, The Turning review, artist Marlene Dumas. 19:452/5Tensions are running high in camp and Jen has found something half buried in the ice.(R)
| 19:15Timberlake Wertenbaker, Jupiter Ascending reviewed and novels that throw light on France. 19:453/5It is midwinter and the giving of gifts turns sour as Jen makes an accidental discovery.(R)
| 19:15Alfred Molina, playwright Rona Munro and New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley. 19:454/5Winter seems to last forever. And then the team makes a shocking discovery.(R)
| 19:00Jennifer and Jill are on the trail. 19:15John Wilson on Seth Rogen's film The Interview, plus poet Blake Morrison. 19:455/5Jen comes to understand the repercussions of what she found. But there is hope too.(R)
| 19:008/8By Annie McCartney. People are told daily that the NHS is in crisis, but why? 19:15Selma, Human Rights Human Wrongs, The Illuminations, You're Not Alone and Better Call Saul
| 19:153/6Vera Sackcloth-Vest and Ginny Fox pursue DH Lollipop, who writes naughty books.(R) 19:45A chance encounter results in a woman reliving her past.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Baroness Helena Kennedy designs a Magna Carta for the 21st century. 20:30After the drama of the Scottish vote, what would an in-out EU referendum be like?
| 20:00Is the middle class in decline? The divide between a rich elite and those now clinging on. 20:40Alternatives to paying with a card and pin. Coping with sudden sight loss as a new mum.
| 20:00With Giles Fraser, Melanie Phillips, Michael Portillo and Matthew Taylor. 20:451/3Dominic Lawson asks the environmentalist Mark Lynas why he now supports GM crops.
| 20:00How much of today's law really comes from Magna Carta?(R) 20:30Cars, cosmetics and convenience stores: What are the secrets to retailing success?
| 20:00Debate with Scott Fletcher, Lisa Nandy MP, Molly Scott Cato MEP and Grant Shapps MP. 20:50Will Self reflects on the growing divide between people with and without children.
| 20:00Steve Richards on the political fears and shocks of 1974, and their lessons for today.
| 20:00Tim Harford looks at claims that keen runners might be damaging their health.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister talks about an author, a president, a chemist, an actress and a diver.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Michael Rosen commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day and looks at how we choose to remember.(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Patrick Cockburn, Leena Hoffmann, Katherine Brown and Gerard Russell.(R)
| 21:00Diagnosing Cancer, personalised medicine based on genes and do headphones damage hearing? 21:301/2Robert Peston explores the alarmingly widening gap between rich and poor since the 1980s.(R)
| 21:002/2Horatio Clare explores infantry soldiers' relationship with the Brecon Beacons(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets actor Bonnie Langford and Nick Wisdom, son of Norman.(R)
| 21:00Hunting tactics of goshawks and the men who invented the contraceptive pill and the laser.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Indian ruler Ashoka the Great.(R)
| 21:00Industrial Tynemouth is experiencing a quite different war to that felt in Folkestone.
| 21:006/10Natasha starts to doubt her marriage to Andrei. John Hurt stars.(R)
| 21:00Opting out of winter fuel payments, more phone fraud victims and costly closet trackers.(R) 21:26Simon Callow presents an appeal on behalf of Target Tuberculosis.(R) 21:30After the drama of the Scottish vote, what would an in-out EU referendum be like?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00White House National Security Council says "all options" being evaluated. 22:451/10Anne Quirk is growing forgetful, until a ceramic rabbit stirs long-buried memories.
| 22:00Commons approves IVF technique that allows creation of babies using DNA from 3 people. 22:452/10As Anne's memory unravels in Scotland, her grandson Luke toils in the heat of Afghanistan.
| 22:00Government appoints Mrs Justice Lowell Goddard to head inquiry - with extra powers 22:453/10Luke's platoon are in danger. Back in Scotland, Anne remembers her past as a photographer.
| 22:00Ukraine's president: new plan for ending conflict gives hope of ceasefire. 22:454/10Anne's obsession with her ceramic rabbit has been noticed at the sheltered housing complex
| 22:00A special edition, presented by the BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen. 22:455/10Luke feels unsure when the soldiers go sightseeing, and Anne's art is finally recognised.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15With Giles Fraser, Melanie Phillips, Michael Portillo and Matthew Taylor.(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators. 22:45Peter Hitchens analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Tanya Byron and Michael Rosen discuss the language parents use to talk to their children.(R) 23:30The best of Monday in the Commons and the Lords with Sean Curran.
| 23:00Brian Cox, Robin Ince and guests talk about the latest explorations of our solar system.(R) 23:30MPs debate the creation of babies from three people. Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:001/4Comedy writers Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram bring Ireland's folklore to life. 23:155/6Danno deals with his father's death, after returning from his memorial service - in a pub. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:001/6Brian relives his experiences in a land where genetics is pitted against education.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster on energy bills and the TV licence fee.
| 23:00Frankie Boyle and Maureen Lipman talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55The art of puppetry goes beyond the theatre, influencing the puppeteer on stage and off.
| 23:00The latest heat of the long-running general knowledge quiz, with Russell Davies.(R) 23:30Roger McGough with requests for wintry poems.(R)
| 23:00Ava DuVernay discusses Selma, Eddie Marsan talks about Still Life, plus S&M in films. 23:30Samira Ahmed reflects on the lists people make and what they can reveal about our lives.(R)
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