| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:151/2The courageous journey of refugee Yusra Mardini from war-torn Syria to the Rio Olympics.(R) 00:45The sound of the church bells at All Saints Parish Church, Writtle in Essex.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5A biography of the novelist by Brendan King, read by James Fleet and Samantha Bond(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5A biography of the novelist by Brendan King, read by James Fleet and Samantha Bond.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5A biography of the novelist by Brendan King, read by James Fleet and Samantha Bond.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5A biography of the novelist by Brendan King, read by James Fleet and Samantha Bond.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5A biography of the novelist by Brendan King, read by James Fleet and Samantha Bond.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/3A senior government official reads a life-changing letter in mid-air.(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 prayer to begin the day from the Greenbelt Festival, with Satish Kumar. 05:45The number of people caught hare-coursing in Lincolnshire has trebled over the past year. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the icterine warbler.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A prayer to begin the day from the Greenbelt Festival with the Reverend Nadia Bolz-Weber. 05:45Bovine TB figures, price rises for dairy farmers and foraging for edible seaweed. 05:58Brett Westwood presents the great reed warbler.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A prayer to begin the day from the Greenbelt Festival, with Abdul-Rehman Malik. 05:45Should the UK keep the laws protecting different species post-Brexit? 05:58Brett Westwood presents the tawny pipit.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A prayer to begin the day from the Greenbelt Festival with Julie Siddiqi. 05:45Farming Today asks if it is just the older generation now drinking milk. 05:58Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Yellow-Browed Warbler.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A prayer to begin the day with the archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby. 05:45What role do rural areas play in the government's national flood resilience review? 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the barred warbler.(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 Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. 05:45'I can't switch off my army brain, so haven't slept properly in 30 years'.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Paul's Cathedral. 05:45Mark Coles profiles the billionaire business magnate and inventor Elon Musk.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 06:00News headlines, plus a look at the papers. 06:04The latest weather forecast. 06:07Helen Mark travels to Bellaghy to discover poet Seamus Heaney's 'Homeplace'.(R) 06:30Charlotte Smith explores the growing seaweed industry. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Dr Sarah Goldingay looks for the transcendent in our everyday rituals. 06:35Lionel Kelleway looks for crabs in a Scottish rockpool. Presented by Chris Packham. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Ability Sunday, LGBT chaplain in Wales, Icelandic elves; Are C of E bishops too 'safe'? 07:54Katherine Woods makes an appeal on behalf of Child Bereavement UK. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Labour's Keith Vaz steps down from the Home Affairs Committee.
| 08:31Theresa May faces calls to clarify her post-Brexit vision.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:51Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster on the latest attempt to reform the House of Lords.
| 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10The Rev Steve Chalke reflects on the power of peace, live from Oasis Church, Waterloo. 08:48John Gray muses on what his idea of heaven is - and why it shouldn't be a perfect world.(R) 08:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the icterine warbler.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:006/10Melvyn Bragg on the inventiveness of the north and the birth of the Industrial Revolution. 09:305/10Sandy Knapp explains why Alice Eastwood is her Natural History Hero.(R) 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Roy Jenkins.
| 09:007/10Melvyn Bragg celebrates the first city of the Industrial Revolution. 09:306/10Paul Barrett's Natural History Hero is paleontologist Franz Baron Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvás(R) 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by Katharine Longworth.
| 09:008/10Melvyn Bragg on the radical north, from the Peterloo Massacre to the suffragettes. 09:305/5David Cannadine explores how Harold Wilson's pipe and Gannex mac came to define him. 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by Father Phil Sumner.
| 09:009/10Melvyn Bragg explores the north's radical impact on 20th-century culture. 09:307/10Beulah Garner explains why entomologist Evelyn Cheesman is her Natural History Hero.(R) 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Ernie Rea.
| 09:0010/10Melvyn Bragg on 'speaking from the north' and what the future might hold for the north. 09:308/10Erica McAllister explains why entomologist George Verrall is her Natural History Hero.(R) 09:45The Daily Service led by the Rev John Bell and Catriona Robertson.
| 09:00Cerys Matthews, Damon Hill and the inheritance tracks of Joseph Calleja.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Mothers who were bullied at school; Equity, the new film about women on Wall Street. 10:451/5Pepys remembers the thousands of homeless camped out after the Great Fire.
| 10:00The award-winning comedian Amy Schumer. Eating disorders and university. Beryl Bainbridge. 10:452/5Ambitious designs for a new London are presented to King Charles II.
| 10:00Alison Gopnik on how children learn. The early days of the women's trade union movement. 10:413/5Demolition work at St Paul's causes problems for the neighbours. 10:55A mother and daughter rejoice in what others view as their eccentric hobby - clog-dancing!(R)
| 10:00Olympic gold medallist Nicola Adams, Eimear McBride on her new book, The Lesser Bohemians. 10:454/5Sam has a visit from Christopher Wren and learns of the death of old friend Robert Hooke.
| 10:00Young women challenging cultural stereotypes. 10:455/5Sam, now close to death, looks back on the city he has loved - London.
| 10:30Abdul-Rehman Malik explores the longstanding relationship between Islam and coffee.
| 10:00Anna is asking questions, Pat is determined to show her support.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Former Lehman Brothers banker Henry Dodds explores our relationship with money. 11:303/6Frank Skinner on funny moments in history. With Kate Williams, John Lloyd and Katy Brand.(R)
| 11:00Brett Westwood explores how tigers that once burnt bright reached the edge of extinction. 11:30An intimate portrait of the iconic but elusive English folksinger Annie Briggs.
| 11:00Journalist Gary Younge explores the impact of the Brexit vote on East Europeans in the UK.(R) 11:303/6Josh attempts to buy a pram on the cheap.
| 11:00David Baker meets Israel's new breed of high-tech Haredim. 11:30The artist asks why collections from Oceania, the Americas and Africa are hidden from view
| 11:00Mary Ann Sieghart on how hotel, music and car companies are fighting off the competition. 11:301/4Comedian Deborah Frances-White tells the true story of the search for her birth mother.(R)
| 11:00Isabel Hardman of the Spectator looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Kate Adie introduces reports from Cyprus, the North Korean border, Calais and Hungary.
| 11:15Sue MacGregor meets haemophiliacs and others affected by the contaminated blood disaster.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Isabel's courage fails her. 12:15How are terror attacks and political unrest affecting Egypt's tourist industry? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Bill Macknade is back on fighting form. 12:15New research suggests that legal highs are in widespread use in spite of the ban. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04The Winwood household is finally ready for some truths. 12:15Credit scores, fashion backpacks, GP appointments, buying art online and Southern Rail. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Dennis Monk tries to re-enter Folkestone life. 12:15New statistics on zero hour contracts - are employee rights are being protected? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Jessie and Adam enter a singing contest on the pier. 12:15Louise Minchin on fires connected to faulty tumble dryers, plus data allowance problems.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Why the benefits of switching are only felt if you do it every 12 months. 12:301/8Miles Jupp is joined by Jeremy Hardy, Lucy Porter, Andy Hamilton and Kerry Godliman.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:045/8Nicholas Parsons hosts the popular panel game.(R) 12:32Food stylist Genevieve Taylor reveals how she created elaborate feasts for Poldark. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Edward Stourton. 13:45Neuroscientist Paul Howard-Jones finds out if we can forget what we do not want to know.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Edward Stourton. 13:45Paul Howard-Jones looks at rock art in southern France and dresses as a rabbit in Hereford
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Edward Stourton. 13:45Paul Howard-Jones finds out what we lose when we learn to read and to count.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Paul Howard-Jones looks at the links between knowledge and conflict.
| 13:00News with Mark Mardell including England education shake-up and North Korean bomb test. 13:45Paul Howard-Jones finds that the digital world is taking us further from Eden than ever.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Padiham in Lancashire.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Anjana Ahuja believes we should take control of our online identity before it is too late.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Rob explains things from his point of view.(R) 14:15May 1749. Grainger's travelling fair showcases an electric new act. By Julie Mayhew.(R)
| 14:00Kirsty speaks her mind.(R) 14:155/9Fifth in a nine-part conspiracy thriller by Matthew Broughton. Starring Romola Garai.
| 14:00Anna is asking questions.(R) 14:15A powerful drama as a young boy's secret recordings reveal a family falling apart.
| 14:154/6A surreal and darkly comic exploration of the meaning of death.(R)
| 14:00Ian makes a quick exit.(R) 14:151/3A society gynaecologist's infatuation with a young girl throws his life into freefall.(R)
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30Sam Shepard's fiery examination of sibling rivalry, starring Philip and Robert Glenister.
| 14:00Eric Robson and the panel visit Stonyhurst College, Lancashire.(R) 14:45Clogs, burlesque and foreign attraction.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:0012/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the last of the 2016 semi-finals in the music quiz. 15:30Dan Saladino, longtime espresso-drinker, journeys into coffee's past, present and future.(R)
| 15:00Tom Holland discusses divorce and betrayal in 1st-century Yorkshire. 15:30Can the big oil companies re-invent themselves as climate saviours? Tom Heap reports.
| 15:00Louise Cooper asks how today's students combine work and study. 15:30Naomi Alderman tells the story of Paul Ehrlich's 'magic bullet' and the cure for syphilis.(R)
| 15:00Helen Mark travels to Bellaghy to discover poet Seamus Heaney's 'Homeplace'. 15:27Amanda Mealing makes an appeal on behalf of Breast Cancer Care.(R) 15:30Don DeLillo talks about his 1997 masterpiece Underworld with James Naughtie and readers.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and the panel visit Stonyhurst College, Lancashire.
| | 15:00David Threlfall is Ivan the Terrible in Mike Walker's epic chronicle of the Tsars.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Lisa Dwan, renowned performer of Samuel Beckett's works, reflects on the Irish writer. 16:30Ernie Rea and guests discuss the purpose of religious education.
| 16:00The language of making and breaking relationships. 16:30Maureen Lipman champions the life of hospice campaigner Dame Cicely Saunders.
| 16:002/2Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini travels from Berlin to compete at the Rio Olympics. 16:30Steve Hewlett talks to John Hardie of ITN about his plans for the future.
| 16:00Kubo And The Two Strings, Hell Or High Water. 16:30Microbead impact, remote animal logging, Royal Society book prize, Surgewatch.
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a bishop, a diplomat, a president and an editor. 16:30Listener reactions to coverage of the Olympic Games. And Archers fans debate the trial. 16:55A conversation that includes discussion of the hazards of removing nipple tassles...(R)
| 16:00Boxer Nicola Adams on winning her second Olympic gold. Amy Schumer on life, sex and comedy
| 16:00Stephen Rea reads from Wilde's famous letter in the prison cell where it was written.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. 17:54The latest shipping forecast.
| 17:00Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. 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.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30'I can't switch off my army brain, so haven't slept properly in 30 years'.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00'High way' to hell: File on 4 investigates the lethal highs coming to the UK from China.(R) 17:40Mark Coles profiles the billionaire business magnate and inventor Elon Musk.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00The junior doctors' strike, due to take place in England next week, has been called off. 18:305/8Nicholas Parsons hosts the popular panel game.
| 18:00The Labour MP Keith Vaz has resigned as chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee 18:303/6Mark Watson attempts to make sense of life, assisted by Sam Simmons and Will Adamsdale.
| 18:00Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley says if he keeps failing he will step down. 18:301/6Mark Steel's in Town arrives in Stockport, Greater Manchester.
| 18:00The government has insisted its grammar school plans are 'not a return to the past'. 18:303/4Tom's dad offers some unwanted assistance.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:301/8Miles Jupp is joined by Jeremy Hardy, Lucy Porter, Andy Hamilton and Kerry Godliman.
| 18:00At least 25 people killed in rebel-held city hours after peace plan unveiled 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Government says British could face EU visa charges after Brexit; Clinton taken ill in NY 18:15Liz Barclay chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:15Maxine Peake and Sarah Frankcom, Mike Bullen on new Cold Feet, neon art, Star Trek at 50. 19:451/5Pepys remembers the thousands of homeless camped out after the Great Fire.(R)
| 19:00Anna is asking questions. 19:15Viggo Mortensen on Captain Fantastic and Jay McInerney on his new novel set in Manhattan. 19:452/5Ambitious designs for a new London are presented to King Charles II.(R)
| 19:15Looking at a new V&A exhibition, a Ben Hur remake and Maggi Hambling at the British Museum 19:453/5Demolition work at St Paul's causes problems for the neighbours.(R)
| 19:15Bridget Jones director Sharon Maguire, actor and comedian Liz Carr, author Ann Patchett. 19:454/5Sam has a visit from Christopher Wren and learns of the death of old friend Robert Hooke.(R)
| 19:00Helen has questions for Anna. 19:15Reviews of Hell or High Water and Nick Cave's album, and Aravind Adiga on his new novel. 19:455/5Sam, now close to death, looks back on the city he has loved - London.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles profiles the billionaire business magnate and inventor Elon Musk. 19:15Hell or High Water, Jonathan Safran Foer, V+A Revolution, Inn At Lydda, BBC comedy pilots
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| 20:00 | 20:00Journalist Gary Younge explores the impact of the Brexit vote on East Europeans in the UK. 20:30Heroin, opiates, and suburban Ohio.(R)
| 20:00'High way' to hell: File on 4 investigates the lethal highs coming to the UK from China. 20:40Peter White previews the Paralympic Games and a photo exhibition focusing on blindness.
| 20:00Clive Anderson and guests discuss proposals to reform our laws on violence. 20:45Brian Bilston on becoming an accidental Twitter poet.
| 20:00Are revolutionary socialists trying to take control of the Labour Party? 20:30Matthew Gwyther looks at the multi-billion pound fertility business.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Padiham in Lancashire. 20:50John Gray muses on what his idea of heaven is - and why it shouldn't be a perfect world.
| 20:00Steven Fielding on relations between upstairs and downstairs in dramas like Downton Abbey.
| 20:00Listener reactions to coverage of the Olympic Games. And Archers fans debate the trial.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a bishop, a diplomat, a president and an editor.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brett Westwood blows the cobwebs from tales of spiders as objects of fear and temptation(R) 21:306/10Melvyn Bragg on the inventiveness of the north and the birth of the Industrial Revolution.(R)
| 21:00Kat Arney reports on how what happened to your grandparents may affect your own health.(R) 21:307/10Melvyn Bragg celebrates the first city of the Industrial Revolution.(R)
| 21:00Can the big oil companies re-invent themselves as climate saviours? Tom Heap reports.(R) 21:308/10Melvyn Bragg on the radical north, from the Peterloo Massacre to the suffragettes.(R)
| 21:00Microbead impact, remote animal logging, Royal Society book prize, Surgewatch.(R) 21:309/10Melvyn Bragg explores the north's radical impact on 20th-century culture.(R)
| 21:00There are some notable firsts in Folkestone.
| 21:002/2Meet the real Ed Reardon and Jaz Milvain(R)
| 21:00Why the benefits of switching are only felt if you do it every 12 months.(R) 21:26Katherine Woods makes an appeal on behalf of Child Bereavement UK.(R) 21:30Matthew Gwyther looks at the multi-billion pound fertility business.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Angela Merkel says migration policy was to blame for electoral defeat in her home state. 22:456/10Coming-of-age comedy by Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina.
| 22:00Radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary is jailed for IS support. 22:457/10Coming-of-age novel by Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina.
| 22:00Opposition demands in Syria include a call for Assad to go 22:458/10Coming-of-age novel by Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina.
| 22:00Eastern Europeans countries say they will press for treaty change at next week's summit. 22:459/10Coming-of-age comedy by Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina.
| 22:00Theresa May's grammar school plans are criticised by some of her Tory colleagues. 22:4510/10Coming-of-age comedy by Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Clive Anderson and guests discuss proposals to reform our laws on violence.(R)
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests discuss Brexit, Labour's future and grammar schools.
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| 23:00 | 23:002/2Mark Lawson explores how the story of Rudolf Kastner has been retold within Israel.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports as MPs and peers return to Westminster.
| 23:003/4Character comedy series in which Julia Davis and Marc Wootton play couples in therapy. 23:30Labour MP Keith Vaz quits as chair of the influential Home Affairs Committee.
| 23:001/4Join Alex and Ben - aka The Pin - in their weird twist on the double-act sketch show. 23:15Comedian Tez Ilyas' show about British muslims and how to become one. 23:30Susan Hulme reportson PMQs, the latest Brexit news and a 'serene' Mark Carney.
| 23:005/6With panellists Miles Jupp, Sue Perkins and Richard Osman. Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:0010/10Melvyn Bragg on 'speaking from the north' and what the future might hold for the north.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55The allure of the exotic - and the power of shoes and ironed jeans to attract(R)
| 23:0012/13Paul Gambaccini chairs the last of the 2016 semi-finals in the music quiz.(R) 23:30Roger McGough marks 300 years since the birth of the influential poet Thomas Gray.(R)
| 23:00Guy Raz investigates athletic mastery. How do people achieve extraordinary feats? 23:50John Gray muses on what his idea of heaven is - and why it shouldn't be a perfect world.(R)
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