| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Political polarisation. Also, an anthropologist's guide to naming.(R) 00:45The bells of Holy Cross, Daventry.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Edmund Gordon's illuminating biography about the inventive writer.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Angela Carter is in a rebellious mood and starts to find her voice.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5In Edmund Gordon's vivid and illuminating biography, Angela Carter is beguiled in Japan.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Angela finds literary success with The Bloody Chamber, her collection of fairy tales.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5In Edmund Gordon's biography, Angela Carter writes her last two joyous and comic novels.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/3A story of the repetitious life of a scientist, but what is it he hopes to discover?(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 Reverend Kate Bottley. 05:45The first results of harvest 2016 are in, and wheat yields are down 12 per cent. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58David Attenborough presents the ring-necked parakeet.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Kate Bottley. 05:45With a look at a new report into fishing in Britain's Exclusive Economic Zone. 05:58Chris Packham presents the mandarin duck.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Kate Bottley. 05:45Scientists ask how vulnerable is Britain's favourite fruit - the banana. 05:58David Attenborough presents the great white egret.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Kate Bottley. 05:45The Royal Navy apologises to trawlermen they put at risk. Yellow rust is on the increase. 05:58David Attenborough presents the glossy ibis.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Reverend Kate Bottley. 05:45The British Veterinary Association is warning of a shortage of rural vets. 05:58Chris Packham presents the great bustard.(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 Reverend Tim Hughes. 05:45'I don't want to live to 100. Fifty-six isn't so bad.' A listener faces terminal illness.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Leonard's Church, Shipham. 05:45Mark Coles tells the story of one of the world's most enigmatic business leaders.(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 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. 06:07Clare Balding walks on the South Downs, remembering the poetry of Eleanor Farjeon.(R) 06:30As the Government pledges more tree planting, what is the state of Britain's woodlands? 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Poet Michael Symmons Roberts questions the appeal of having peace of mind. 06:35Ruth Sanderson joins a Cornish lobster fisherman as a busy summer season comes to an end. 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. 07:10Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Edward Stourton. 07:54Amy Devereux makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society. 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31An urgent House of Commons debate calls for action on the crisis in Syria.
| 08:31Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 08:31Reports from Westminster.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Roy Jenkins marks the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, which killed 116 children. 08:48Howard Jacobson applauds Tom Stoppard's attack on the ignorance of the average audience.(R) 08:58David Attenborough presents the ring-necked parakeet.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Margaret Atwood, Harriet Walter, Richard Holmes and Letizia Treves. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Stephen Shipley.
| 09:00Jim Al-Khalili talks cloning with the creator of Dolly the sheep, Ian Wilmut. 09:30Sir Trevor meets Madeleine Black who struggled to forgive the men who raped her. 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by Andrew Graystone.
| 09:00Jeremy Paxman and Priscilla Presley join Libby Purves. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Father Phil Sumner.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss plasma, one of the fundamental states of matter. 09:45Christian worship with a bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe.
| 09:00Stephen Hough, concert pianist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.(R) 09:45Spiritual reflection and prayers on a topical subject, led by Canon Chris Chivers.
| 09:00Aasmah Mir and the Rev. Richard Coles are joined by the singer and actor Michael Ball.
| 09:00Andrew Pierce, Sigrid Rausing and Shelagh Fogarty review the papers.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Woman's Hour celebrates its 70th birthday in the BBC Radio Theatre. 10:451/5A husband relates the events surrounding his wife's illness as she lies in a coma.
| 10:00Andrea Riseborough talks about the life of a female actor and her varied roles. 10:452/5If Cath gets through the next ten days, her chances of survival will improve.
| 10:00Has the US presidential election become a contest over who treats women the least badly? 10:413/5Cath is still in a coma. Her sister and mother travel from Australia to see her. 10:55The joys of watching the world go by once you reach your 80s.
| 10:00Saxophonist and Young Musician finalist Jess Gillam performs live. 10:454/5Nick's friends from Canada arrive. One has a cold, and Nick worries she may infect Cath.
| 10:00Real life into drama - the story of friendship between Africa's abducted girls. 10:455/5Cath has come out of her coma. Nick fusses around her, anxious she will relapse.
| 10:30Jay Rayner and the culinary panel are in Faversham, Kent.
| 10:00Ian has got an offer to consider, and Alistair wants to make it work.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Psychotherapist Philippa Perry investigates when and why children lie.(R) 11:302/4Lemn looks at the children at Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.
| 11:00Brett Westwood tracks down nature's master of disguise - the chameleon. From 2016 11:30Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come is an anthem for civil rights in the USA.
| 11:00Ian Peddie studies new Texan laws allowing concealed handguns into classrooms.(R) 11:302/4Nina Stibbe’s comic novel. Elizabeth falls for local handyman Charlie Bates
| 11:00Reports on Afghanistan's Taliban, Ethiopia's emergency, Mexico and Albanian cheese-making. 11:30The Jack Reacher author Lee Child investigates the unusual life of author John D Macdonald
| 11:00Laurence Llewelyn Bowen considers the subjects that have formed the basis for tattoos. 11:302/4Comedian Deborah Frances-White tells how she rescued a young man from a religious movement
| 11:00Steve Richards looks behind the scenes in Westminster. 11:30Treading lava in Hawaii, Gaddafi's plane in Perpignan and the murky politics of The Gambia
| 11:15Dr Robert Langer, scientist, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Matthew Sweet explores the philosophical background to our relationship with things. 12:15How do small energy firms survive? Are big music festivals struggling? The Bionic Olympics 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Matthew Sweet explores how objects connect us to particular people and memories. 12:15Rail strikes, delays, overcrowding and rising ticket prices. Listeners have their say. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Matthew Sweet and guests reflect on our need to order our homes and create personal space. 12:15HIV testing, power of attorney and energy credit. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Matthew Sweet explores how we make space for unwanted gifts and stuff we just plain hate. 12:15The tenants facing eviction so a council can move homeless families into their homes. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Matthew Sweet explores the relationships we have with our childhood homes. 12:15Is it time our High Street shops got better at weathering the weather?
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Online estate agents, state pension age review, overdraft fee cap, and savings rates. 12:30Miles Jupp is joined by Susan Calman, Sarah Kendall, Francis Wheen and Simon Evans.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:042/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's comedy game.(R) 12:32A former child soldier from Sierra Leone tells Dan Saladino how food provided redemption. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Gretchen Gerzina explores the stories of runaway slaves in Scotland.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Gretchen Gerzina explores the lives of two black people in high English society.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Gretchen Gerzina explores the moving story of Mary Prince.
| 13:00Foreign secretary Boris Johnson says the mood on military action in Syria is changing. 13:45Gretchen Gerzina discovers the story of a forgotten revolutionary, Robert Wedderburn.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Gretchen Gerzina discovers the troubling story of Nathaniel Wells, black plantation owner.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from the University of Glasgow.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis. 13:30Hardeep meets poet Rashid El Sheikh, whose sons went to Syria with tragic consequences.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Oliver has a question for Shula.(R) 14:151/4Victorian detective drama, starring Brian Cox as Inspector James McLevy.
| 14:00Susan doesn't feel like celebrating.(R) 14:152/4Victorian detective drama starring Brian Cox as Inspector James McLevy.
| 14:00Ian has got an offer to consider.(R) 14:153/4Victorian detective drama starring Brian Cox as Inspector James McLevy.
| 14:00Alistair wants to make it work.(R) 14:154/4Victorian detective drama starring Brian Cox as Inspector James McLevy.
| 14:00Rob is refusing to hide away.(R) 14:15By Dan Allum. Drama about a woman who gives up her old life to become a Traveller's wife.(R)
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30A 60-year rollercoaster marriage lived in a Yorkshire mining village unfolds.(R)
| 14:00Peter Gibbs hosts a postbag edition of the show from East Ruston Old Vicarage.(R) 14:45The joy of life, romance and grandchildren in old age, and of gaining an adoptive family.
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| 15:00 | 15:00With guests Cressida Cowell, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Helen Zaltzman and Michael Billington. 15:30Sheila Dillon in conversation with Pete Brown on magic, mystery and Britishness of apples.(R)
| 15:00Jay Rayner and the culinary panel are in Pontefract.(R) 15:30Can you build a motorway that does not wipe out wildlife? Tom Heap investigates.
| 15:00How can children develop the right financial habits that will stay with them for life? 15:30There is confusion about how teens should be getting the new Meningitis ACWY vaccine.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding walks on the South Downs, remembering the poetry of Eleanor Farjeon. 15:27Jane Garvey makes an appeal on behalf of Build Africa.(R) 15:30Dutch novelist Tommy Wieringa talks to Mariella Frostrup.(R)
| 15:00Peter Gibbs hosts a postbag edition of the show from East Ruston Old Vicarage. 15:45By Agnieszka Dale. Krystyna Kowalska is visited by an immigration officer.
| 15:30Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come is an anthem for civil rights in the USA.(R)
| 15:002/2The Spanish civil war spills onto English soil in this tense thriller.
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| 16:00 | 16:00Cathy FitzGerald takes a walk around 17th-century Kyoto. 16:30Aleks Krotoski explores the often ignored physicality of the digital world.
| 16:00BBC LovetoRead campaign: Michael Rosen on the pleasure of and the science behind reading. 16:30Bidisha and Gillian Reynolds choose favourite books to discuss with Harriett Gilbert.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor asks if the economic system is rigged in favour of the owners of property. 16:30Steve Hewlett looks at how the newspaper regulator IPSO fares in the latest review.
| 16:00Oscar-winning director Andrea Arnold discusses her road movie American Honey. 16:30New mission searching for signs of life on Mars about to arrive at the Red Planet
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a king, a playwright, a racing driver, a painter, a musical inventor. 16:30Jon Sopel on Trump v Clinton. Plus, the future of Radio 5 live. 16:55Adopted sisters conclude that their new family is cause for celebration.
| 16:00Jenni Murray talks to Jess Gillam, saxophonist and BBC Young Musician finalist.
| 16:00Graham Norton talks to Mariella Frostrup about his debut novel, Holding. 16:30Owen Sheers' poem reflects tales told to Anna Scott-Brown on a bench facing Swansea Bay.
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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.
| 17:00Eddie 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.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Why are top employers offering the school leavers a fast track career without university?(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00As the scandal over the collapse of BHS rumbles on, how safe is your pension?(R) 17:40Mark Coles tells the story of one of the world's most enigmatic business leaders.(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. 18:302/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's comedy game.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:302/6Ed tries to stir up some dissent when he becomes editor of the student magazine.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:306/6Mark Steel visits the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar and performs for the locals.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:303/4Joe Lycett discovers how well a panel of celebrity guests know their nearest and dearest.
| 18:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:30Miles Jupp is joined by Susan Calman, Sarah Kendall, Francis Wheen and Simon Evans.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 18:15Simon Parkes chooses his BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Susan doesn't feel like celebrating. 19:15Kwame Kwei-Armah on Cassius Clay, and Kate Tempest describes writing Let Them Eat Chaos. 19:451/5A husband relates the events surrounding his wife's illness as she lies in a coma.(R)
| 19:00Ian has got an offer to consider. 19:15Director Mira Nair and Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o discuss their film Queen of Katwe. 19:452/5If Cath gets through the next ten days, her chances of survival will improve.(R)
| 19:00Alistair wants to make it work. 19:15Andrea Arnold's American Honey, playwright Ella Hickson, and George Monbiot on loneliness. 19:453/5Cath is still in a coma. Her sister and mother travel from Australia to see her.(R)
| 19:00Rob is refusing to hide away. 19:15Reaction to Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo remembered, Tutankhamun on TV 19:454/5Nick's friends from Canada arrive. One has a cold, and Nick worries she may infect Cath.(R)
| 19:00Adam is desperate to speak to Ian. 19:15Pioneer black star Earl Cameron, musician David Gledhill, Simon Callow on David Gascoyne. 19:455/5Cath has come out of her coma. Nick fusses around her, anxious she will relapse.(R)
| 19:00Mark Coles tells the story of one of the world's most enigmatic business leaders. 19:15One Night In Miami, The Mountaintop, Black Mirror, Ali Smith, Beyond Caravaggio.
| 19:151/6Comedian and activist Mark Thomas heads to Dorset for some suggestions.(R) 19:453/3MJ Hyland's story of a case of sleepwalking. Trystan Gravelle reads Even in Good Men.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Ian Peddie studies new Texan laws allowing concealed handguns into classrooms. 20:30David Baker asks if too much gentrification is a bad thing?
| 20:00As the scandal over the collapse of BHS rumbles on, how safe is your pension? 20:40Guide dog owner refused hotel room - GDBA CEO Richard Leaman responds. Red Szell column.
| 20:00Combative, provocative and engaging debate, presented by Michael Buerk. 20:45Dave Pickering makes the case for a men's liberation movement.
| 20:00What does Black Lives Matter stand for in the UK? David Aaronovitch finds out. 20:30Why are top employers offering the school leavers a fast track career without university?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from the University of Glasgow. 20:50Howard Jacobson applauds Tom Stoppard's attack on the ignorance of the average audience.
| 20:00How the Singer sewing machine has whirred its way through history.
| 20:00Jon Sopel on Trump v Clinton. Plus, the future of Radio 5 live.(R) 20:30Matthew Bannister on a king, a playwright, a racing driver, a painter, a musical inventor.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Brett Westwood burrows into our complicated relationship with the rat.(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with Margaret Atwood, Harriet Walter, Richard Holmes and Letizia Treves.(R)
| 21:00There is confusion about how teens should be getting the new Meningitis ACWY vaccine. 21:30Jim Al-Khalili talks cloning with the creator of Dolly the sheep, Ian Wilmut.(R)
| 21:00Can you build a motorway that does not wipe out wildlife? Tom Heap investigates.(R) 21:30Jeremy Paxman and Priscilla Presley join Libby Purves.(R)
| 21:00New mission searching for signs of life on Mars about to arrive at the Red Planet(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss plasma, one of the fundamental states of matter.(R)
| 21:00Gretchen Gerzina explores the lives of black people in Britain during a time of slavery.
| 21:001/2The Spanish civil war spills onto English soil in this tense thriller.(R)
| 21:00Online estate agents, state pension age review, overdraft fee cap, and savings rates.(R) 21:26Amy Devereux makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society.(R) 21:30David Baker asks if too much gentrification is a bad thing?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00Chair of the Committee on Arms Export Controls calls for a halt to Saudi arms sales. 22:451/10Eleanor's world is turned upside down when Conrad fails to come home from a conference.
| 22:00What can be done to end the conflict in Syria? The programme talks to Hilary Benn. 22:452/10Conrad is alive but not well - spooked by a mysterious woman, he is on the run.
| 22:00US and Russia to resume talks on Syria, but what can they deliver? 22:453/10Both Conrad and Eleanor struggle with painful memories, while Conrad remains missing.
| 22:00How realistic are Nicola Sturgeon's plans to protect Scottish interests ahead of Brexit? 22:454/10There is no progress in the search for Conrad, who is hiding out in a Bologna hotel.
| 22:00Mark Carney says the Bank of England 'will allow price rises' to support jobs and growth. 22:455/10Con recalls taking his research job, which ultimately led to meeting his stalker, Maddy.
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Combative, provocative and engaging debate, presented by Michael Buerk.(R)
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests discuss events at Westminster including the latest on Brexit.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen on the creative use and misuse of language by children.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports on the Brexit latest as the Commons and Lords return to Westminster.
| 23:004/6Stephen K Amos is joined by Mae Martin, Travis Jay and Dan Antopolski.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:002/4Josie Lawrence stars as a mother with a bad case of empty nest syndrome. 23:151/4Canadian stand-up Mae Martin on new attitudes towards sex and gender. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster on PMQs and an angry Brexit debate.
| 23:004/4Meet the funniest (and unhappiest) man in the world.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Bidisha and Gillian Reynolds choose favourite books to discuss with Harriett Gilbert.(R) 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55Falling in love in their 80s has given this couple a new lease of life.
| 23:00With guests Cressida Cowell, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Helen Zaltzman and Michael Billington.(R) 23:30Katrina Porteous's poem reflects tales told to Anna Scott-Brown on a Northumberland bench.(R)
| 23:00Oscar-winning director Andrea Arnold discusses her road movie American Honey.(R) 23:30Poet Michael Symmons Roberts questions the appeal of having peace of mind.(R)
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