| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Terrorism: does it work? Also, the origins and development of the 'hotline'.(R) 00:45Church bells from Howden Minster, East Yorkshire.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Poets Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley ask 'What is the true cost of poetry?'.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5The authors explore the lives - and suicides - of John Berryman and Sylvia Plath.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5The authors explore the lives - and deaths - of Stevie Smith and Louis MacNeice.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5The lives - and reclusive deaths - of Emily Dickinson and Rosemary Tonks.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley explore the life, and death, of poet WH Auden.(R) 00:48The latest shipping forecast.
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30Kevin Ehrlich awaits lift-off as his famous twin brother sets off on a mission to Mars.(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 Alison Murdoch. 05:45The UK sugar beet industry predicts a bumper year. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the herring gull.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Alison Murdoch. 05:45Council tenant farm sell-off, annual organic report, animal welfare in the slaughterhouse. 05:58Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the lesser black-backed gull.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Alison Murdoch. 05:45Farming Today reports from the first NFU Conference since the Brexit vote. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the great black-backed gull.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Alison Murdoch. 05:45Charlotte Smith asks whether the killing of animals without stunning can be humane. 05:58Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the common gull.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Alison Murdoch. 05:45Why a meat-free diet is becoming a controversial issue in the German elections. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the black-headed gull.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:30The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 05:43A reading and a reflection to start the day, with Canon Sarah Rowland Jones. 05:45How class A drugs took over a young woman's life. ipm@bbc.co.uk.
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast. 05:43Church bells from St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford. 05:45Edward Stourton profiles the Oscar-nominated actress from north London.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs. Including 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 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. 06:07Clare Balding explores a new pathway across one of Ireland's biggest bogs at Derrigimlagh.(R) 06:30Animal welfare from the University of Bristol Vet School Farm. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest national and international news. 06:05Mark Tully celebrates the nobility of these beasts of burden in folklore and reality. 06:35JB Gill helps out with lambing on a Cornish farm. 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. 07:54Margaret McQuade, a beneficiary of Addaction, makes the Radio 4 Appeal on their behalf. 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.
| 08:31A minister questioned on claims a British jihadist received payment from the government.
| 08:51Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster.
| 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10Live from St David's Uniting Church, Pontypridd. With Beverley Humphreys. 08:48John Gray discusses what has fuelled 'populism' today.(R) 08:58Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the herring gull.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Elaine Feinstein, Rebecca Daniels, Trevor Nunn and Ryan Wigglesworth. 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Fiona Stewart.
| 09:00Alan Winfield talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the ethics of robots, from drones to androids. 09:30Lucy Mangan talks to Bea Harvie, a young carer, about responsibility. 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Chine McDonald.
| 09:00Actor Sir Patrick Stewart and comedian and writer Shappi Khorsandi join Libby Purves. 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by the Rev Janet Wootton.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger. 09:44Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe.
| 09:00Sir Antony Beevor, historian, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.(R) 09:44Spiritual reflection and prayers on a topical subject, led by Father Frankie Mulgrew.
| 09:00Impressionist and comedian Rory Bremner. With Inheritance Tracks from Gurinder Chadha.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Fearne Cotton, Dame Vera Baird QC, Tanita Tikaram. 10:451/5Someone is looking for a thorn-free zone, and Irene Pollok's creativity reaps rewards.
| 10:00Approaching life as a carer and how to manage physical violence. Clover Stroud. 10:452/5Young Bertie decides on drastic imaginative action to keep his psychotherapist happy.
| 10:00Pink's in fashion for men & women; siblings and sharing the care of their elderly parents. 10:413/5Unexpected travel and adventures are in store for Irene Pollok. 10:55Friends reflect on film-making, poetry and the Isle of Innisfree.
| 10:00Cressida Dick has been named as the first woman Metropolitan Police Commissioner. 10:454/5Bertie's fishing trip becomes more of an adventure when fog descends on the Pentland Hills
| 10:00What happens when your spouse becomes ill and you have to take care of them? 10:455/5Irene returns home bearing gifts, and Angus finds himself giving diplomatic advice.
| 10:30It takes an English director to tackle one the most horrific chapters in US history.
| 10:00Jennifer wants to strike the right note, and Roy is taken by surprise.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Patrick Wright traces the impact on Kent orchards and villages of Britain joining the EEC. 11:302/6Joe Lycett asks some questions of Canadian stand-up star Katherine Ryan.
| 11:00Adam Rutherford asks if we are ready for artificial intelligences making decisions for us. 11:30Kevin Le Gendre explores influence of the visits of Duke Ellington.
| 11:00Is a Jaffa Cake a cake or a biscuit? One for the pub with both beer and philosophy.(R) 11:303/4Simon looks at why we buy and sell gold all around the world.(R)
| 11:00Correspondents' stories from Ireland, Iraq, Ukraine, Puerto Rico and feasting in Chile. 11:30Mark Steel celebrates the ever expanding world of foreign Hip Hop
| 11:00Aside from the physical landscape, what does graffiti and street art actually change?(R) 11:305/6Trisha has an unexpected visitor, while Clare decorates with a vengeance.(R)
| 11:00A look at the by-election results, business rates and Brexit in the House of Lords. 11:30Kate Adie with correspondents' stories: Iraq, Yemen, Germany, the Gambia and Portugal.
| 11:15Kirsty Young interviews Dame Katherine Grainger, Olympian and rower.
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| 12:00 | 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04On this day in 1991 a killer whale called Tilikum drowned one of its trainers. 12:15How people are buying more crafting accessories to organise their DIY weddings. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Witness hears from the first woman to bring a case of sexual harassment to trial in India. 12:15Winifred Robinson hosts a phone-in on caring for elderly relatives. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Adriaan Vlok was in charge of the police in apartheid-era South Africa. 12:15Consumer news, including the Uber users charged for taxi journeys they never made. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04In January 1956, members of an Amazonian tribe murdered five American missionaries. 12:15Have electric car sales stalled? Plus a report on young people with arthritis. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04One boy's story of communist fervour in 1960s China. 12:15Peter White on changes for whiplash compensation claimants, and poor quality new houses.
| 12:00National and international news and the shipping forecast. 12:04Early warning demand before cutting benefits, not-so-free childcare and the new pound coin 12:308/8A 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. 12:041/6Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 77th series of the iconic panel show.(R) 12:30How a 50-year-old food and farming project has helped rid Thailand of illegal opium. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Grace Dent tells the story of one woman's search to find her missing partner.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Grace Dent tells the story of one woman's search to find her missing partner.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Grace Dent tells the story of one woman's search to find her missing partner.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs with Shaun Ley. 13:45Grace Dent tells the story of one woman's search to find her missing partner.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45Grace Dent tells the story of one woman's search to find her missing partner.
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Buntingford, Hertfordshire.(R)
| 13:00Jeremy Corbyn says he takes his share of the blame for Labour's defeat in Copeland. 13:30Stephen Fry probes the Krazy language of madness. With Jo Brand.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Jennifer wants to strike the right note.(R) 14:15A couple struggle to cope with the death of their mothers. Will they lose each other too?
| 14:00Eddie goes a step too far.(R) 14:15A sensitive examination of one Muslim teenager's path to radicalisation.(R)
| 14:00Roy is taken by surprise.(R) 14:15Rida, a radicalised Glasgow Asian teenager, returns from Syria. What will her fate be?
| 14:00Kenton enacts his scheme.(R) 14:151/5Psychological drama series about a probation officer investigating the death of a teenager
| 14:00Helen is told to stop worrying.(R) 14:15By Adrian Penketh. Drama set in the high-pressure world of air traffic control.
| 14:00Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? Presented by Amol Rajan 14:30Docu-drama telling the story of the cross-channel ferry that capsized in just 90 seconds.
| 14:00Eric Robson and the panel are in Tittensor, Staffordshire.(R) 14:45Creative writing, poetry and film-making.
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| 15:00 | 15:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies. 15:30In the time taken for your average midday meal, Sheila Dillon unpacks the future of lunch.(R)
| 15:001/6Josie Long with stories of hope in darkness. 15:30Oil exploration has begun in the most biodiverse place on earth. Tom Heap investigates.
| 15:00Does self-employment offer a good option for people with disabilities? 15:30Topics include Vitamin D, an air ambulance blood trial and phantom limb pain.(R)
| 15:00Clare Balding explores a new pathway across one of Ireland's biggest bogs at Derrigimlagh. 15:27Former goalie Bob Wilson makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Willow Foundation.(R) 15:30Clark talks to award-winning Danish novelist Dorthe Nors.(R)
| 15:00Eric Robson and the panel are in Tittensor, Staffordshire. 15:45Short story by Simon Van Booy. Hitchhiker Ben is picked up by the attractive Diane.
| | 15:002/2Concluding the story of a young woman's quest for liberation. Stars Amy Hoggart.
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| 16:00 | 16:00A picture of the Caribbean now, as seen by a new generation of writers and poets. 16:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince discover how science can make the invisible visible.
| 16:00Is emoji really the world's fastest-growing language? Michael Rosen finds out. 16:30Murray Lachlan Young and Deborah Frances-White discuss their favourite books.
| 16:00Laurie Taylor explores platform capitalism - its origins, meaning and future. 16:30Steve Hewlett: journalist, editor and presenter of The Media Show.
| 16:00Stephen Woolley, producer of The Crying Game, reveals why the film almost never got made. 16:30How a woolly story about resurrecting mammoths raises serious questions for medical ethics
| 16:00Kate Silverton on a hotelier, a campaigner, a radio producer and a singer-songwriter. 16:30Answers to listeners' questions on Radio 2's new schedule and presenter shake-ups. 16:55Benjamin Zephaniah came to Swansea and inspired them to write poetry for the first time.
| 16:00Why pink is back in fashion, and Fearne Cotton opens up about her depression.
| 16:00Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Mohsin Hamid about his new book, Exit West. 16:30Roger McGough presents a selection of requests for poems that paint a portrait.
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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.
| 17:00Coverage 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.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:30Evan Davis does some black sky thinking as he hears about the growing UK space industry.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00An investigation into standards in pupil referral units for children excluded from school.(R) 17:40Edward Stourton profiles the Oscar-nominated actress from north London.(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00Theresa May takes rare step of attending Lords to watch debate on triggering Brexit 18:301/6Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 77th series of the iconic panel show.
| 18:00A heterosexual couple have lost their latest legal battle to have a civil partnership. 18:302/4Mark asks why it is so hard to get to the bottom of what makes people look and feel good.(R)
| 18:00Ian Stewart killed Helen Bailey so he could have her £4 million fortune. 18:301/4Jocelyn Jee Esien returns with another series of sketches. Featuring Paul Whitehouse.
| 18:00Surge in number of EU citizens granted permission to stay in the UK since Brexit. 18:301/6A tale of questionable childcare from the child's point of view.(R)
| 18:00The Labour leader to carry on, despite the party's defeat in the Copeland by-election. 18:308/8A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp.
| 18:00Tom Watson urges Labour to reconnect with core voters after Thursday's by-election defeat 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00The Labour leader tells his party now is not the time to give up or run away 18:15Liz Barclay chooses her BBC Radio highlights.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Eddie goes a step too far. 19:15Patriots Day, playwright Stephen Karam, EU Baroque Orchestra, documentaries about Syria. 19:451/5Someone is looking for a thorn-free zone, and Irene Pollok's creativity reaps rewards.(R)
| 19:00Roy is taken by surprise. 19:15Gurinder Chadha on her film Viceroy's House, and American Gothic at the Royal Academy. 19:452/5Young Bertie decides on drastic imaginative action to keep his psychotherapist happy.(R)
| 19:00Kenton enacts his scheme. 19:15David Tennant on Broadchurch, Britain's favourite second novel and are awards irrelevant? 19:453/5Unexpected travel and adventures are in store for Irene Pollok.(R)
| 19:00Helen is told to stop worrying. 19:15Monty Python's John Cleese on farce. Jay Z is inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. 19:454/5Bertie's fishing trip becomes more of an adventure when fog descends on the Pentland Hills(R)
| 19:00Justin is over the moon, and Jennifer can't believe her eyes. 19:15Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Jake Arnott on The Fatal Tree, The Tale of Januarie opera. 19:455/5Irene returns home bearing gifts, and Angus finds himself giving diplomatic advice.(R)
| 19:00Edward Stourton profiles the Oscar-nominated actress from north London. 19:15Twelfth Night, Xavier Dolan, the RA's America after the Fall, Big Little Lies, Ross Raisin
| 19:00Life at Grange Farm is squeezed. 19:154/4It is the last day of the walk, and Laura and Ros still have ten miles to go.(R) 19:45One morning, a man moves into a bottle.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Is a Jaffa Cake a cake or a biscuit? One for the pub with both beer and philosophy. 20:30Rosie Campbell examines the bias that voters bring to the ballot box.
| 20:00An investigation into standards in pupil referral units for children excluded from school. 20:40Tanvir Bush talks about her novel, and Australian film-maker Gough talks about his work.
| 20:00Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the morality of fake news. 20:45Astrid Alben explains how art and science together can explain phenomena like moonlight.
| 20:00What will happen if the Islamic State loses its state? David Aaronovitch investigates. 20:30Evan Davis does some black sky thinking as he hears about the growing UK space industry.
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Buntingford, Hertfordshire. 20:50John Gray discusses what has fuelled 'populism' today.
| 20:00Emily Dicks visits St Petersburg to trace her grandfather's memories of 1917's revolutions
| 20:00Answers to listeners' questions on Radio 2's new schedule and presenter shake-ups.(R) 20:30Kate Silverton on a hotelier, a campaigner, a radio producer and a singer-songwriter.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Adam Rutherford explores our relationship with contemporary humanoid robots.(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with Elaine Feinstein, Rebecca Daniels, Trevor Nunn and Ryan Wigglesworth.(R)
| 21:00Topics include Vitamin D, an air ambulance blood trial and phantom limb pain. 21:30Alan Winfield talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the ethics of robots, from drones to androids.(R)
| 21:00Oil exploration has begun in the most biodiverse place on earth. Tom Heap investigates.(R) 21:30Actor Sir Patrick Stewart and comedian and writer Shappi Khorsandi join Libby Purves.(R)
| 21:00How a woolly story about resurrecting mammoths raises serious questions for medical ethics(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the works, life and times of Seneca the Younger.(R)
| 21:00Charlotte Smith explores the story of British farming and debates its post-Brexit future.
| 21:001/2Story of a young woman's quest for liberation. Stars Bill Nighy and Amy Hoggart.(R)
| 21:00Early warning demand before cutting benefits, not-so-free childcare and the new pound coin(R) 21:26Margaret McQuade, a beneficiary of Addaction, makes the Radio 4 Appeal on their behalf.(R) 21:30Rosie Campbell examines the bias that voters bring to the ballot box.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00A government minister denies there is a famine in parts of the country. 22:451/10After a violent incident on the Randall Plantation, Caesar asks Cora to run north with him
| 22:00Reporting from Maryland, USA, where immigration raids have started already. 22:452/10Cora and Caesar encounter the underground railroad for the first time.
| 22:00Cressida Dick is named the first female Metropolitan Police Commissioner. 22:453/10The runaways take on new identities and begin a new life across the state line.
| 22:00As Trump talks up his immigration policy, Mexican leaders voice their irritation in talks. 22:454/10Cora takes on a job in the Museum of Natural Wonders.
| 22:00Corbyn rejects predictions of electoral calamity. 22:455/10Cora flees, but where will the railroad take her on this occasion?
| 22:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 22:15Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the morality of fake news.(R)
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests discuss Jeremy Corbyn's leadership and the latest on Brexit.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen explores the tunes we sing when we are speaking, without even realising it.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00Brian Cox and Robin Ince discover how science can make the invisible visible.(R) 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster.
| 23:005/6Tim Key takes a comic look at the concept of sleep, through the medium of poetry.(R) 23:153/4A funny but factually accurate look at the unacknowledged geniuses of the science world.(R) 23:30Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.
| 23:00A phone, a strudel and Kafka combine to make Jack and Millie's day rather complicated. 23:30Sean Curran reports from Westminster on the case of Jamal al-Harith.
| 23:00Lauren Laverne discusses instinct and intuition with guests including Hilary Devey. 23:30Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. 23:55A writer's ability to speak in any voice can take publishers by surprise.
| 23:00The nationwide general knowledge quiz, chaired by Russell Davies.(R) 23:30Sally Phillips and Matt Harvey join Roger McGough to read poems about parenting.
| 23:00Stephen Woolley, producer of The Crying Game, reveals why the film almost never got made.(R) 23:30Mark Tully celebrates the nobility of these beasts of burden in folklore and reality.(R)
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