| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Laurie Taylor explores the history and meaning of the urban stroller, past and present.(R) 00:45Church bells from Coventry Cathedral.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5John Lewis-Stempel is a farmer who wants to rediscover traditional practices.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5It's spring - the time for catching a glimpse of those mad March hares.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5It's mid-summer. The wheat is golden, but there's the small matter of the aggressive bull.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00Comprehensive coverage of the various elections taking place across the UK. 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5The final episode brings mixed emotions - the field awaits a new use and a new owner.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3Strange things happen to Professor Lebedev in the middle of the concert hall.(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.
| 01:00Comprehensive coverage of the various elections taking place across the UK.
| 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 Dr Stephen Wigley. 05:45Celebrating the farming legacy of Beatrix Potter in the Lake District. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the swift.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. 05:45Including investigation of pest control, drones, falling farm incomes and farming bison. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the reed warbler.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. 05:45Presented by Anna Hill. Farmers are expecting a slug invasion. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the kingfisher.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. 05:45Glyphosate use on farms, pig antibiotics and Northern Ireland's vegetable growers. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the bullfinch.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30Comprehensive coverage of the various elections taking place across the UK. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. 05:45The price farmers receive for milk has fallen once again. 05:58David Attenborough presents the garden warbler.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. 05:45The programme that starts with its listeners. A single phone call that can change lives.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43The bells of St Mary's Church, Barnes, London. 05:45Profiles of people making headlines. Mark Coles profiles Labour politician Lord Dubs.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00Morning news. Includes Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
| 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.
| 06:00Including 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 explores the Lincolnshire Wolds through the poetry of Tennyson.(R) 06:30Are farmers managing to protect their crops from pests, while caring for the countryside? 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05The poet Michael Symmons Roberts explores the mystery and inevitability of death. 06:35Caz Graham visits a Wiltshire farm that has been innovating for nearly a 100 years. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Edward Stourton. 07:54Carol Ann Duffy presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of PEAS. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | | 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31David Cameron appears before a committee of MPs to answer questions on the EU referendum.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Live from Holy Trinity Church Platt in South Manchester. 08:48Sarah Dunant reflects on the legacy of one of the worst floods in Florence's history.(R) 08:58David Attenborough presents the sounds and story of the swift.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Grayson Perry, Emma Rice, Alice Coote and Kelley Swain with Mary Ann Sieghart. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music. Led by the Rev Clair Jaquiss.
| 09:00Mishal Husain presents a new series about Britain now with despatches from around the UK. 09:302/5Bettany Hughes investigates charisma in her archaeology of philosophy.(R) 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by pastor Alex Robertson.
| 09:00Lemn Sissay meets naturalist Chris Packham and singer and songwriter Ralph McTell. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by David Waters.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Peter Whittaker.
| 09:00Sue MacGregor's guests reflect on the rise and fall of Chilean dictator General Pinochet. 09:45Spiritual reflection and prayers on a topical subject led by Rev Dr Martyn Atkins.
| 09:00A sideways look at the world. Author Mark Haddon and Katherine Jenkins' inheritance tracks
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Nurses who trained together in the late 1950s reminisce. 10:451/5A weathered life as imagined by Katie Hims. A snowy day off-school.
| 10:00Stand-up Sara Pascoe on Animal, being a male nurse, and the women who love Leicester City. 10:452/5A weathered life imagined by Katie Hims. Revision under the sun
| 10:00Radicalised children, overseas nurses and the NHS, and modern masculinities. 10:413/5Zoe likes the rain but Jim doesn't: can they work it out. A drama by Katie Hims. 10:55Friends remember the devastating reality of post-partum psychosis.
| 10:00Comedian Susan Calman on dealing with depression and why she calls it the 'crab of hate'. 10:454/5Zoe has had to stop driving because of a thunder storm. Katie Hims' drama discovers why.
| 10:00Zoe Wanamaker and Barbara Flynn, surrogacy rules, a family of nurses, local elections. 10:455/5Zoe's daughter Alice is worried by rising waters. Katie Hims' drama about the weather.
| 10:30Jay Rayner and the culinary panel are in Truro.
| 10:00Helen makes a decision, and it is deadline day at the Dower House.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Grace Dent follows the case of the UK man caught trying to smuggle a child. 11:303/6Ramesh enrols the community to help raise money for a local sporting star.
| 11:00How false memories can be artificially generated and used to change future behaviour.(R) 11:30Sung by Julie Andrews, Feed the Birds was written for the film Mary Poppins.
| 11:00Peter McGraith hears personal accounts of same-sex marriage in post equality Britain.(R) 11:301/6Nigel Planer and returns in the Health Service satire by Dr Phil Hammond and David Spicer.
| 11:00China's once-hated population police are being turned into child development specialists. 11:301/2Nikki Bedi goes in search of the Indian Shakespeare.
| 11:003/4Historian Diarmaid Ferriter explores the post-war period and the outbreak of the Troubles. 11:302/4Alex Lowe is 82 year-old Barry in a comedy combining sitcom and stand-up.
| 11:00Steve Richards and guests on the 5 May election results. 11:30Reports from around the world. One reporter is thrown off balance on a trip to North Korea
| 11:15Tom Hanks, one of Hollywood's best-loved actors, is interviewed by Kirsty Young.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04A letter arrives for Lewis Cox. 12:15Shari Vahl on the erosion affecting our coast and the new role of pubs code adjudicator. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In Ashburton, Emily is on course for collision with her fiance. 12:15Winifred Robinson talks to listeners about debt and mental illness issues. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Alexander Gidley continues to face resistance at the quarry. 12:15Consumer affairs programme. The care homes saddled with debt and at risk of going under. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Cora Gidley is on the defensive. 12:15Why Ryanair is taking on the travel companies Opodo and Edreams - not to mention Google. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Johnnie Marshall is in pursuit of information. 12:15Consumer news. Ikea's solar panels, biometric passports, door-to-door fundraising.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Is the 100% mortgage back? Plus NS&I investment choices, and firms urged to act over scams 12:304/9A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:045/6David Mitchell with Henning Wehn, Jon Richardson, Susan Calman and Jack Dee.(R) 12:32Yotam Ottolenghi and Sheila Dillon meet BBC Food and Farming Awards's best food producers. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Mark Mardell. 13:451/5An exploration of the first of five Shakespeare plays crossing the racial divide.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. Martha Kearney speaks to schools minister Nick Gibb. 13:452/5An examination of Tamora and Aaron's relationship in Titus Andronicus.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Martha Kearney. 13:453/5Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores Shylock's complex role in The Merchant of Venice.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:454/5Yasmin Alibhai-Brown explores love in the mystical worlds of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:455/5Yasmin Alibhai-Brown focuses on the relationship between Antony and Cleopatra.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Ritula Shah presents political debate from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, London(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Russell Davies chairs a contest to find Britain's top Shakespeare expert.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Pat and Tony make progress.(R) 14:15Susan has died. People who loved her visit her flat. But did they love the same woman?
| 14:00It's a busy day on The Green.(R) 14:151/3Cassius persuades Brutus that Caesar's ambition is a threat to the republic.
| 14:00Pat sees an opportunity.(R) 14:152/3The plot against Caesar reaches crisis point as the conspirators gather at the Capitol.
| 14:00Tom makes an impassioned plea.(R) 14:153/3Following the assassination of Caesar, Brutus and Cassius are forced to leave Rome.
| 14:00Helen makes a decision.(R) 14:15Clare Lizzimore's rapid-fire drama goes inside the head of Anthony - a boy full of rage.
| 14:00Anita Anand takes calls on UK elections, the new London Mayor and the EU referendum. 14:301/91. Performance. A star is born. Dramatised from the work of Emile Zola by Oliver Emanuel.
| 14:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from east Cornwall.(R) 14:45The experience of postpartum psychosis and its aftermath.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The 2016 final of the general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies. 15:30Featuring the finalists of the BBC Food and Farming Awards.
| 15:00Jay Rayner and the culinary panel are in King's Lynn.(R) 15:30How should we eat to reduce our carbon footprint? Four experts debate very different ideas
| 15:00Can the growing cost of social care be met, or do we need to change our expectations? 15:30All in the Mind awards, Elegy, why theatre and film directors are turning to psychologists(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark explores the Lincolnshire Wolds through the poetry of Tennyson. 15:27Sophie Stone presents an appeal on behalf of Deaf Child Worldwide.(R) 15:30James Naughtie talks to Spanish writer Javier Marias about his novel The Infatuations.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from east Cornwall. 15:45A surveillance cop is prepared to go far beyond his line of duty.
| 15:30Sung by Julie Andrews, Feed the Birds was written for the film Mary Poppins.
| 15:002/92. Power. Dramatised from the work of Emile Zola by Oliver Emanuel. Politics and sex clash
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| 16:00 | 16:004/4Natalie Haynes stands up for Agrippina the Younger, who bossed it in first century Rome. 16:30Aleks explores if people are more likely to find lost items using online social networks.
| 16:00Michael Rosen on a new Roald Dahl dictionary collecting the amazing words he invented. 16:30Lt-Gen Sir Graeme Lamb champions wartime spy Christine Granville. Matthew Parris chairs
| 16:00Laurie Taylor explores the role in British society of migrant women over the past 60 years 16:30BBC independence at serious risk says Lord Patten, Robert Peston's new show, BBC diversity
| 16:00Director Stephen Frears discusses his biopic Florence Foster Jenkins. 16:30Scientists can keep human embryos alive for longer. Should they?
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a peace campaigner, an author, a neurologist and a composer. 16:30The most profitable product in history. Can the iPhone claim this accolade? 16:55Two friends remember the depression that following treatment for postpartum psychosis.
| 16:00Woman's Hour celebrates the contribution of overseas nurses to the NHS.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to celebrated author Allan Ahlberg, creator of The Jolly Postman. 16:30Roger McGough introduces poems requested by listeners.
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| 17:00 | 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.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Coverage and analysis of the day's news. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30The programme that starts with its listeners. A single phone call that can change lives.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00The former director of MI5 questions why there must always be someone to blame.(R) 17:40Profiles of people making headlines. Mark Coles profiles Labour politician Lord Dubs.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Scientists produce a near-perfect picture of the genetic events that cause the illness. 18:305/6David Mitchell with Henning Wehn, Jon Richardson, Susan Calman and Jack Dee.
| 18:00Thousands of fans celebrate their team becoming the most unlikely champions. 18:301/5Two unhappily married colleagues find solace in their workplace friendship.(R)
| 18:00David Cameron says the UK will take in more unaccompanied Syrian refugee children. 18:305/6Lucy must either pass her A-levels or leave the resistance.(R)
| 18:00Fresh talks to resolve the bitter row have been planned. 18:303/4Kim is not happy when a debate about her demise reveals Neil's yearning for an accordion.(R) 18:452/4Join Alex and Ben - aka The Pin - in their weird twist on the double-act sketch show.(R)
| 18:00Shadow cabinet member says voters don't see Labour as credible under Corbyn's leadership 18:304/9A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.
| 18:00Mr Khan promises to "represent every single community"; senior Tories defend smear claims 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Would leaving the EU undermine the UK's ability to protect itself against terrorism? 18:15Helen Lederer chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00It's a busy day on The Green. 19:15Capability Brown, born 300 years ago this year, changed the landscape of Georgian England. 19:45Artist Ben Rivers reinterprets the strange tales of Moroccan storyteller Mohammed Mrabet.
| 19:15Alexander Masters on his book A Life Discarded, plus artist Mona Hatoum. 19:45Artist Ben Rivers reinterprets the strange tales of Moroccan storyteller Mohammed Mrabet.
| 19:00Tom makes an impassioned plea. 19:15Howard Brenton, Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups, Olafur Eliasson, Dorothy Bohm. 19:45Artist Ben Rivers reinterprets the strange tales of Moroccan storyteller Mohammed Mrabet.
| 19:15Kirsty Lang talks to Ewan McGregor, and Ben Elton writes a TV a comedy about Shakespeare. 19:45Artist Ben Rivers reinterprets the strange tales of Moroccan storyteller Mohammed Mrabet.
| 19:00Eddie needs to find more work. 19:15Tom Hiddleston talks to Kirsty Lang about his new role as Hank Williams. 19:45Artist Ben Rivers reinterprets the strange tales of Moroccan storyteller Mohammed Mrabet.
| 19:00Profiles of people making headlines. Mark Coles profiles Labour politician Lord Dubs. 19:15Upstart Crow, Midsummer Night's Dream, Knight of Cups, Louise Erdrich and Mona Hatoum.
| 19:00Emma and Fallon head to Greenbury. 19:156/6Josie Long and Kevin Eldon join Frank Skinner and Professor Kate Williams. 19:45A fictional dialogue between Syria and Britain, by Leila Haidar and Mish Green.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Peter McGraith hears personal accounts of same-sex marriage in post equality Britain. 20:30Nkem Ifejika cannot speak Igbo, the language of his forefathers, and he wants to know why.(R)
| 20:00The former director of MI5 questions why there must always be someone to blame. 20:40How the National Living Wage could have an impact on care. And the blind taekwondo Master.
| 20:00Who will be on top in the world of future crime - the cops or the criminals? 20:452/5Dominic Lawson asks Prof Edzard Ernst why he abandoned his belief in homeopathy.
| 20:00The Right Reverend James Jones preaches at a service for Ascension Day.
| 20:00Ritula Shah presents political debate from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, London 20:50Sarah Dunant reflects on the legacy of one of the worst floods in Florence's history.
| 20:00Gillian Darley explores "Subtopia", the blurring of space between town and country
| 20:00The most profitable product in history. Can the iPhone claim this accolade?(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a peace campaigner, an author, a neurologist and a composer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Oliver Burkeman explores the frequent human experience of feeling like a fraud.(R) 21:30Grayson Perry, Emma Rice, Alice Coote and Kelley Swain with Mary Ann Sieghart.(R)
| 21:00All in the Mind awards, Elegy, why theatre and film directors are turning to psychologists 21:30Mishal Husain presents a new series about Britain now with despatches from around the UK.(R)
| 21:00How should we eat to reduce our carbon footprint? Four experts debate very different ideas(R) 21:30Lemn Sissay meets naturalist Chris Packham and singer and songwriter Ralph McTell.(R)
| 21:02Scientists can keep human embryos alive for longer. Should they?(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.(R)
| 21:00It is a week of collisions in Ashburton.
| 21:002/2Missing Presumed Dead a new version of Homer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage. Part Two(R)
| 21:00Is the 100% mortgage back? Plus NS&I investment choices, and firms urged to act over scams(R) 21:26Carol Ann Duffy presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of PEAS.(R) 21:30Peter Day discovers how computer programmes are being used in recruitment.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Leicester City win Premier League title - reaction from the mayor of Leicester. 22:451/10Lisa Owens' comic debut, depicting a life unravelling in minute and spectacular ways.
| 22:00The World Tonight talks to a German MEP who does not approve of the EU's Turkey visa deal. 22:452/10Claire's job hunt takes second place to family responsibilities. Lisa Owens' witty debut.
| 22:00Donald Trump will be the Republican party's candidate for the US presidency. 22:453/10Claire tries to fix the rift with her mother. Lisa Owens' debut novel read by Emily Bruni.
| 22:00Paul Moss reports live from Caracas. There is anger over a Russian concert in Palmyra. 22:454/10As the rift with her mum deepens, Claire spends her first Christmas away from the family.
| 22:00Labour claims the London mayoral race for Sadiq Khan. 22:455/10Claire spends a disastrous weekend with Luke and his parents. Debut novel by Lisa Owens.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Who will be on top in the world of future crime - the cops or the criminals?(R)
| 22:00Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators.
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| 23:00 | 23:003/6Lee Mack, Joe Lycett, Katherine Ryan and Tom Parry try not to be funny. 23:30Dr Shahidha Bari looks at the history of the sari.(R)
| 23:001/6The teenage years of Stephen K Amos growing up in 1980s South London.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:005/6Bittersweet comedy drama about a community mental health nurse. Starring Paul Whitehouse. 23:156/6Tim Key holds an impromptu stag party for his guitarist Tom Basden.(R) 23:30Rachel Byrne reports from Westminster as MPs quiz the prime minister on the EU referendum.
| 23:001/4Writer David Quantick on the people he’s met and the impressions they've made. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Lt-Gen Sir Graeme Lamb champions wartime spy Christine Granville. Matthew Parris chairs(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55Two friends realise it is important to talk about mental health.
| 23:00The 2016 final of the general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies.(R) 23:30Listeners tell Roger McGough the stories behind their poetry requests.(R)
| 23:00Director Stephen Frears discusses his biopic Florence Foster Jenkins.(R) 23:30The poet Michael Symmons Roberts explores the mystery and inevitability of death.(R)
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