| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15The 2016 BSA Thinking Allowed Ethnography winner. Also, transcultural football.(R) 00:45Church bells from the church of St Andrew's and St George's West, Edinburgh.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Juliet Stevenson reads Juliet Nicolson's family memoir of seven generations of women.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Juliet Stevenson reads Juliet Nicolson's family memoir of seven generations of women.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Juliet Stevenson reads Juliet Nicolson's family memoir of seven generations of women.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Juliet Stevenson reads Juliet Nicolson's family memoir of seven generations of women.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Juliet Stevenson reads Juliet Nicolson's family memoir of seven generations of women.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/4A return to a childhood location brings back painful memories for an ex-pat.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
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| 01:00 | 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Reverend Clair Jaquiss. 05:45A look at the choices the NFU must make in deciding its position on the EU referendum. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Kate Humble presents the common whitethroat.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Reverend Clair Jaquiss. 05:45A new milk ad is getting dairy farmers talking. Plus election issues in rural Wales. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the sparrowhawk.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Reverend Clair Jaquiss. 05:45The NFU has announced its support for staying in the EU and the president explains why. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the common tern.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Reverend Clair Jaquiss. 05:45English farmers are to be given bridging payments to tide them over. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the osprey.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Reverend Clair Jaquiss. 05:45Rural issues affecting the election of police and crime commissioners. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the house martin.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe. 05:45The programme that starts with its listeners. Having children: Selfish or selfless?
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from All Saints church, Harpole in Northamptonshire. 05:45Mark Coles profiles Sir Martin Sorrell, the Don Draper of the 21st century.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark visits the Iron Age hillfort in Oswestry, Shropshire.(R) 06:30Broadcasting from a brand new chicken farm to look at the UK poultry industry. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully asks if climate change offers an opportunity to change our lives for the better 06:35Dan Saladino discovers a Sheffield dairy farm that is aiming to change how milk is valued. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00News, including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sushi for Passover, Prince the Jehovah's Witness and the row over religious education. 07:54Levison Wood presents an appeal on behalf of Renewable World. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:51Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster.
| 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Live from Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon, where Shakespeare is buried. 08:48Sarah Dunant argues that our current obsession with celebrity utterly undermines art.(R) 08:58Kate Humble presents the common whitethroat.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Tom Sutcliffe with Patrick Cockburn, Ece Temelkuran, Seymour Hersh and Charlie Beckett. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Michael Wakelin.
| 09:001/2Robert McCrum journeys across Obama's America in search of Shakespeare. 09:30Sathnam Sanghera regards himself as middle class. Others do not. He explores why. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Stephen Shipley.
| 09:00Libby Purves meets writer Hunter Davies and artistic director Daniel Evans. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Andrew Martlew.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor and guests look back on the Euro 96 football tournament.(R) 09:45Spiritual reflection and prayers on a topical subject led by Monsignor Tony Rogers.
| 09:00Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles talk to James Nesbitt about The Secret and Cold Feet.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Advice on what to do if you're not happy with the primary school offer for your child. 10:452/7In need of distraction, Fleur throws herself into the social whirl of 1920s London.
| 10:00Sylvia Day on her bestselling romance novels. Tackling sexual harassment in schools. 10:453/7Soames ruffles feathers at a meeting when he questions the modern way of doing business.
| 10:00Shakepeare's portrayal of mothers and sons and the history of criminalising prostitution. 10:414/7While Fleur decides to flirt with danger, Michael wrestles with his conscience at work. 10:55A year after the Nepal earthquake, a couple who were there reflect on its impact on them.
| 10:00A look at the role of mediation in divorce. Why is the law not being imposed? 10:455/7Soames visits his cousin George and muses on life and death.
| 10:00US banknote, unmarried woman, Shakespeare and feminism, and why women run. 10:456/7Michael learns a secret from Fleur's past, and Soames's business suspicions are confirmed.
| 10:303/31916. Dada is born and Jerusalem is sung. Gorky defends Jewish life in print.
| 10:00There is just no pleasing Lynda, and the Brookfield Archers raise a glass.
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| 11:00 | 11:001/2Matt Everitt explores the key decisions that transformed the record industry. 11:301/6Ramesh's girlfriend opens a food bank in Lenzie, but she has got competition.
| 11:00Traumatic events can change our biology. Can we pass on this altered biology to children? 11:30The Way You Look Tonight was made popular by Fred Astaire in the 1936 film, Swing Time.
| 11:001/2Helena Kennedy QC explores the deeper claims of human rights to be truly universal.(R) 11:305/6Songwriter Neil Innes talks to comedy writer and director Graham Linehan.(R)
| 11:00The astonishing story of a group of young men in Syria resisting so-called Islamic State. 11:303/4Will Gompertz is joined by Johnny Vegas and Kate Malone for a masterclass in pottery.(R)
| 11:001/4Historian Diarmaid Ferriter looks back on a turbulent century of Anglo-Irish relations. 11:304/4Comedy about a young woman trying to build a more fulfilling life for herself in Glasgow.
| 11:00Isabel Hardman of the Spectator looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Flying on board Air Force One, and other stories from around the world.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor's guests reflect on the dramas of the Maastricht Treaty negotiations.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Ashburton, Emily Colville faces unexpected hostility. 12:15The online colleges falsely claiming to be British universities. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04On Blackfold Farm, Rose Fairweather feels trapped. 12:15What can we learn from the Queen's generation? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The rift widens between Halecot and Blackfold farms. 12:15Recycling refusers - if you won't separate your rubbish, do you deserve to lose your bin? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Tobias Holden tries to mend bridges. 12:15You and Yours is launching a new online guide to help listeners avoid fraud. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Ashburton, William Fulford is at odds with his parents. 12:15The cost of running - how often do you really need to buy new training shoes?
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Tree investments felled, and the pensions minister explains selling your annuity. 12:302/9Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front, Edwina Currie and Francis Wheen join host Miles Jupp.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:043/6David Mitchell with Elis James, Reginald D Hunter, Maeve Higgins and David O'Doherty.(R) 12:32Sheila Dillon travels to Bristol to hear how food has shaped the city's past and present. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00News with Martha Kearney including Treasury analysis of Brexit plus reaction. 13:451/10Ellie Cawthorne braves the initiation rites of Raisin Weekend at St Andrews University.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:452/10Student life through 900 years. Ellie Cawthorne on the rivalry between town and gown.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney. 13:453/10Ellie Cawthorne on writers, actors and entertainers that were forged at university.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:454/10Ellie Cawthorne compares a student diary from 1690 to an undergraduate blog from 2015.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:455/10The class divide between student privilege and poor sizars, in Byron's time and today.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Tunbridge Wells in Kent.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:301/5Dominic Lawson asks Trevor Phillips why he abandoned support for multiculturalism.
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| 14:00 | 14:00There is just no pleasing Lynda.(R) 14:15Actor-singer Brian Protheroe stars in a poignant and surreal drama about an ageing busker.
| 14:153/3John finds himself caught in the crossfire in the battle for supremacy of the clerks' room(R)
| 14:00Rex just keeps on trying.(R) 14:151/10By Simon Topping. Charlie is a boy but knows she is really a girl. Starring Alex Lawther.(R)
| 14:00Pip has a proposition for Tom.(R) 14:15In the year 2020, cardinals from all over the world gather in Rome to elect a new pontiff.
| 14:15Jonathan Holloway's play about Shakespeare and Cervantes trying to outwit death.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on Obama and the EU and the junior doctors' strike. 14:307/7Faced with the consequences of flirting with danger, Fleur must make a choice.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from Bushey in Hertfordshire.(R) 14:45A year after the Nepal earthquake, conversations about its impact, and about fundraising.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Russell Davies chairs the third semi-final in the 2016 series of the challenging quiz. 15:30Food in the most extreme cooking environment, space. Dan Saladino tries menus for Mars.(R)
| 15:003/4Tom Dyckhoff examines the importance of design after death. 15:30Peter Gibbs explores Ascension Island, a barren Atlantic rock made fertile by man.
| 15:00Listeners share their questions and ideas about wedding costs with Ruth Alexander. 15:30Lucy Kellaway asks whether we should be more open about what we are paid.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark visits the Iron Age hillfort in Oswestry, Shropshire. 15:27Kirsten O'Brien presents an appeal on behalf of MedEquip4Kids.(R) 15:30Deborah Levy and Daniel Hahn tell Mariella Frostrup about the enduring appeal of Cervantes(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from Bushey in Hertfordshire. 15:45Gyles Brandreth has written a comic story for the Queen's 90th birthday.
| 15:30The Way You Look Tonight was made popular by Fred Astaire in the 1936 film, Swing Time.(R)
| 15:001/2A government minister on the run faces the unfamiliar to return home. Stars Colin Tierney.
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| 16:00 | 16:002/4Join Natalie Haynes for comedy and Classics, as she stands up for Roman poet Ovid. 16:30Aleks Krotoski explores whether or not the digital world is changing food culture.
| 16:00Michael Rosen on how we talk about historical eras in order to define how we live now. 16:30Comedian Ray Peacock nominates the controversial life of Lenny Bruce.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor asks if the government should aim to promote well-being. 16:30The decline of TV news, celebrity injunction, and local TV.
| 16:00Francine Stock visits the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham and tries out Blind Cinema. 16:30What are the consequences for UK science of leaving the EU? Adam investigates.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a rock star, an editor, a comedian, a nurse and an announcer. 16:30Do the Treasury's Brexit numbers add up? 16:55When you don't reach your fundraising target, it's easy to forget how much you've achieved
| 16:00Why don't more couples choose mediation during divorce? Sylvia Day on her erotic fiction.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to award-winning writer David Szalay about All That Man Is. 16:30Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' poetry requests.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30The programme that starts with its listeners. Having children: Selfish or selfless?(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Lyse Doucet talks to a group of former hostages of so-called Islamic State.(R) 17:40Mark Coles profiles Sir Martin Sorrell, the Don Draper of the 21st century.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Treasury report suggestion that Brexit would cause fall in UK tax receipts causes row 18:303/6David Mitchell with Elis James, Reginald D Hunter, Maeve Higgins and David O'Doherty.
| 18:00Justice Secretary Michael Gove says a UK exit from the EU won't affect free trade 18:305/6Nali's ex-husband arrives unexpectedly and Clare takes it upon herself to intervene.(R)
| 18:00The comedian and actor, Victoria Wood, has died of cancer at 62 18:303/6Collaboration loyalty cards ruin Uljabaan's plans and Richard's chances in the pub quiz.(R)
| 18:00UK and Welsh governments offer to buy 25% of Tata Steel to attract potential buyers 18:302/6Omid Djalili, Sara Pascoe, Russell Kane and Adam Hess try not to be funny.
| 18:00Obama warns that Brexit would put UK at "back of the queue" for any trade deal with US 18:302/9Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front, Edwina Currie and Francis Wheen join host Miles Jupp.
| 18:00President Obama has told young people in Britain to reject pessimism and isolationism. 18:15Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Vote Leave dismiss President's warning it could take a decade to agree a US trade deal. 18:15Gerry Northam chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Arts news, interviews and reviews. 19:452/7In need of distraction, Fleur throws herself into the social whirl of 1920s London.(R)
| 19:00Rex just keeps on trying. 19:15Samira Ahmed talks to Will Sharpe about his TV show Flowers. Plus Don Warrington on Lear. 19:453/7Soames ruffles feathers at a meeting when he questions the modern way of doing business.(R)
| 19:00Pip has a proposition for Tom. 19:15Producer Geoff Posner remembers Victoria Wood. Plus Lucian Msamati on Iago. 19:454/7While Fleur decides to flirt with danger, Michael wrestles with his conscience at work.(R)
| 19:15Mica Paris, biographer Matt Thorne and journalist Kevin Le Gendre on the legacy of Prince. 19:455/7Soames visits his cousin George and muses on life and death.(R)
| 19:00Jazzer is not in the mood. 19:15Shakespeare died 400 years ago this week. John Wilson marks this anniversary. 19:456/7Michael learns a secret from Fleur's past, and Soames's business suspicions are confirmed.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles Sir Martin Sorrell, the Don Draper of the 21st century. 19:15Arabian Nights,The Flick, Garth Greenwell, British Museum Sicily, All the World's a Screen
| 19:00Pat is taken by surprise, and Pip gives Rex guidance. 19:154/6Chris Addison and Alun Cochrane join Frank Skinner and historian Dr Kate Williams. 19:45A fictional dialogue between Ethiopia and Britain by Maaza Mengiste and Helen Dunmore.
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| 20:00 | 20:001/2Helena Kennedy QC explores the deeper claims of human rights to be truly universal. 20:30Norway's child protection policies are attracting sharp criticism both at home and abroad.(R)
| 20:00Lyse Doucet talks to a group of former hostages of so-called Islamic State. 20:40EasyJet admit they got it wrong with a guide dog. And when strangers try to help.
| 20:003/3Discussion programme that gives listeners a new way to understand a controversial issue. 20:45Simon Zagorski-Thomas thinks we fail to value the study of pop music.
| 20:002/3How much do we need home? Frances Stonor Saunders examines the journeys we take. 20:30Author Andrew Dickson explores William Shakespeare's influence on the business world.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Tunbridge Wells in Kent. 20:50Sarah Dunant argues that our current obsession with celebrity utterly undermines art.
| 20:00Fergal Keane explores the cultural landscape of the 1916 Easter Rising.
| 20:00Do the Treasury's Brexit numbers add up?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a rock star, an editor, a comedian, a nurse and an announcer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Radio 4 announcer Kathy Clugston is anosmic. She cannot smell - and wants to know why.(R) 21:30Tom Sutcliffe with Patrick Cockburn, Ece Temelkuran, Seymour Hersh and Charlie Beckett.(R)
| 21:00Lucy Kellaway asks whether we should be more open about what we are paid.(R) 21:301/2Robert McCrum journeys across Obama's America in search of Shakespeare.(R)
| 21:00Peter Gibbs explores Ascension Island, a barren Atlantic rock made fertile by man.(R) 21:30Libby Purves meets writer Hunter Davies and artistic director Daniel Evans.(R)
| 21:00What are the consequences for UK science of leaving the EU? Adam investigates.(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 1816, known as the year without a summer.(R)
| 21:00Alliances are broken and made in Ashburton.
| 21:002/2Now 16, Jeanette’s future as a budding missionary is called into question(R)
| 21:00Tree investments felled, and the pensions minister explains selling your annuity.(R) 21:26Levison Wood presents an appeal on behalf of Renewable World.(R) 21:30Author Andrew Dickson explores William Shakespeare's influence on the business world.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00The IFS's Paul Johnson on whether Treasury Brexit numbers add up. 22:451/10In the hottest summer on record, tensions rise on the streets of London.
| 22:00Michael Gove says UK would negotiate a deal to join a free trade zone. 22:452/10The aftermath of an unfortunate death causes political and violent mayhem.
| 22:00London mayoral contest in extremism row - the cleric at the centre speaks out. 22:453/10Cathy and her daughter are caught up in the protest that the Met are struggling to contain
| 22:00US pop superstar Prince dies aged 57. 22:454/10The new police commissioner must find Molotov Man - the face of the London riots.
| 22:00Is Prevent dividing, stigmatising and alienating parts of the UK population? 22:455/10London is in crisis as the Met struggles to find the officer gone rogue.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:153/3Discussion programme that gives listeners a new way to understand a controversial issue.(R)
| 22:00Diane Abbott and others join Carolyn Quinn to discuss Obama and foreign aid.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen talks to Dr Laura Wright about her new research on popular house names.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster on junior doctors' contracts and the housing bill.
| 23:006/6The group leave their meeting room to take Andy to his mother's wake. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:003/6Bittersweet comedy drama about a community mental health nurse. Starring Paul Whitehouse. 23:154/6Tim Key takes a comic look at the subject of survival, through the medium of poetry.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:004/4Spoof phone-in show from the creators of The Fast Show.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Comedian Ray Peacock nominates the controversial life of Lenny Bruce.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55If your husband is on Everest and there is an earthquake, you need him to get in touch.
| 23:00Russell Davies chairs the third semi-final in the 2016 series of the challenging quiz. 23:30Roger McGough presents the first in a new series from the Poetry by Heart competition.(R)
| 23:00Francine Stock visits the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham and tries out Blind Cinema.(R) 23:30Mark Tully asks if climate change offers an opportunity to change our lives for the better(R)
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