| 00:00 | 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:15Surveillance - how we are both watchers, as well as the watched.(R) 00:45Bells on Sunday from St Helen's, Sefton(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:301/5Stephanie Land’s first-hand account of working as a low-wage cleaner in today's America.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:302/5Stephanie Land’s first-hand account of working as a low wage cleaner in today's America.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:303/5Stephanie Land’s first-hand account of working as a low wage cleaner in today's America.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:304/5Stephanie Land’s first-hand account of working as a low wage cleaner in today's America. 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:305/5Stephanie Land’s first-hand account of working as a low wage cleaner in today's America.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
| 00:00The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. 00:30An insurance company employee investigates a suspected arson at a stately home.(R) 00:48The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping
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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.
| 01:00BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
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| 05:00 | 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson. 05:45A new report saying eat less meat is condemned as a starvation diet. 05:56The latest weather forecast for farmers. 05:58Martin Hughes-Games presents the Tree Sparrow.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson. 05:45An investigation by MPs into the Fisheries Bill says it is short on detail. 05:58Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the barn owl.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson. 05:45Friends of the Earth claim a no-deal Brexit will leave the environment vulnerable. 05:58Brett Westwood presents the story and sound of the robin.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson. 05:45Is silvopasture a silver bullet for farmers? Charlotte hears about trials in Wiltshire. 05:58For Fyfe Dangerfield, the prehistoric sight and sound of the grey heron is a big leveller.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson. 05:45How Farming Today listeners helped identify a new disease in UK hares. 05:58Liz Bonnin presents an Antarctic specialist, the delicate-looking snow petrel.(R)
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Rabbi Alex Chapper. 05:4526 marathons and weekly protests in a badger outfit. ipm@bbc.co.uk
| 05:20The latest shipping forecast 05:30National and international news from BBC Radio 4 05:43Bells on Sunday from Winchester Cathedral 05:45Becky Milligan profiles Conservative MP Nick Boles.(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00News and current affairs programme, including Thought for the Day.
| 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
| 06:00The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers. 06:07Ian Marchant visits a boggy Highland wilderness that could be the UK's first spaceport. 06:30From robot pickers to precision pest control, the future of farming is high-tech. 06:57The latest weather forecast.
| 06:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 06:05Remona Aly explores the many human, symbolic and religious incarnations of motherhood. 06:35Intensive agriculture has rapidly changed rural Ireland. Can the damage be reversed? 06:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00News headlines and sport.
| 07:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 07:10Edward Stourton with the latest religious and ethical news. 07:54Betty Jackson makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Smart Works Charity 07:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 08:00 | | 08:31The latest news from Westminster - and beyond.
| 08:31The latest news from Westminster - and beyond.
| 08:31The latest news from Westminster - and beyond.
| 08:31Susan Hulme with the news from Westminster - and beyond.
| | 08:00The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. 08:10A service of remembrance and reflection for Holocaust Memorial Day. 08:48Val McDermid argues that referendums have had a devastating effect on our political system(R) 08:58Actress and keen birdwatcher Trudie Goodwin fell in love with the carib grackle's song.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Andrew Marr with Fiona Benson, Louise Pullen, Stephen Bayley and Liam Bright. 09:45Spiritual reflection with Very Rev John Conway, St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh
| 09:00Jonathan Freedland asks how new technologies transformed gambling in the 1840s and today. 09:30Women in the City talk about how they have combined motherhood with a high-flying career.(R) 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by David Waters.
| 09:00The story of how a classic 80’s movie song became an anthem for a new generation. 09:30Does true happiness, Nirvana, come from dissolving the self?(R) 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Katharine Longworth.
| 09:00Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians. 09:45Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music, led by Canon Dr Joe Aldred.
| 09:00James Rebanks, shepherd and writer, shares his track choices with Lauren Laverne.(R) 09:45Christian Worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Rev Richard Carter.
| 09:00Deborah Gould on her love for skydiving, and Harry Bibring on the Kindertransport.
| 09:00Sunday morning magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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| 10:00 | 10:00We discuss proposals - who's asking who? Girls in school. The new Domestic Violence Bill 10:451/5Dramatisation of Irene Nemirovsky's (Suite Francaise) beautiful and beguiling debut novel.
| 10:00Lorraine Kelly, Jessica Eaton, talking to your child about breasts, and Sarah Knight. 10:452/5Denise falls passionately in love with Great War veteran, Yves.
| 10:00Freida Pinto, Sophie Walker steps down, Irish abortion test case, and The Real Saudi. 10:413/5Yves gets an opportunity to start afresh in Finland. But Denise gets distraught. 10:55When every day is like a school day.(R)
| 10:00Children's commissioner for England, family secrets, and the pelvic floor. 10:454/5Nemirovsky's beguiling story of an extra marital affair in post-World War One France.
| 10:00The programme that offers a female perspective on the world 10:455/5Final episode of Irene Nemirovsky's complex and beguiling love story set in 1920s Paris.
| 10:30Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from Colchester.
| 10:00Elizabeth makes a shocking confession and Brian faces an ultimatum.
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| 11:00 | 11:00Anoushka is smart, funny and mixed race: should she apply for a place at Cambridge Uni? 11:304/4Leo’s daughter returns as a Russian princess arrives to bid for his heart, and his home.
| 11:00They work in the NHS, farming, industry, so why do Romanians get such a bad press? 11:30Japanese poets create new work in a location marred by a tragic history.(R)
| 11:00Writer Charles Sprawson reflects on his life as he copes with advancing dementia. 11:304/4Divorcee Spencer is confronted by teenage son Dylan in an episode "a bit like Star Wars".
| 11:00The Venezuelans who have turned to smuggling drugs and kidnapping fishermen from Trinidad. 11:30Artist Bob and Roberta Smith examines how text and language are used in art.(R)
| 11:00India Rakusen discovers how her generation is changing the workplace. 11:304/4Ken gets tech help from his grandkids, Chloe goes into early labour and Ian is fretting.
| 11:00Anushka Asthana of The Guardian looks behind the scenes at Westminster. 11:30Queues for food and fuel return to Zimbabwe and so do violent crackdowns on protesters
| 11:15Wendy Cope, poet, shares her eight track choices with Lauren Laverne.
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| 12:00 | 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04By Esi Edugyan. Wash and Titch are now in America. 12:18Where do you stand if your gym hikes your fees? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04By Esi Edugyan. Wash and Titch have found Titch’s father working in the Arctic. 12:18How do you know when it's time to give up driving? Email: youandyours@bbc.co.uk 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04By Esi Edugyan. Washington is in Canada. He wonders if he will see Tanna again. 12:18Why dementia care is in crisis. Adapting to flexitarianism. What's causing shrinkflation. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04By Esi Edugyan. Washington has to fight for his life. 12:18What 2018 really cost us, betting terminals in Northern Ireland, foster care allowances. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04By Esi Edugyan. Washington goes in search of Titch. 12:18Are you putting aside groceries in case of a no-deal Brexit? 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:04What warning signs should make you wary about an investment? 12:30Hugo Rifkind, Neil Delamere, Jen Brister and Nish Kumar join Miles Jupp.(R) 12:57The latest weather forecast.
| 12:00The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast. 12:045/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.(R) 12:32From 'preppers' to big brands, Dan Saladino gathers thoughts on a no-deal Brexit and food. 12:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45From Mozart to the helicopter: James Burke makes the link
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45James Burke joins the dots on his 'Knowledge Web'
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45James Burke joins the dots on his 'Knowledge Web'
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45James Burke joins the dots on his 'Web of Knowledge'.
| 13:00Analysis of news and current affairs. 13:45James Burke joins the dots on his 'Web of Knowledge'
| 13:00The latest news from BBC Radio 4. 13:10Jonathan Dimbleby presents topical debate from The Exchange in Twickenham.(R)
| 13:00Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. 13:30Doon Mackichan wanders, falls and loiters with just a few of the women making walking art.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Alistair takes centre stage 14:15Eve Myles stars as Emily in the true story of Emily Steel's late pregnancy termination.
| 14:00Helen is put on the spot(R) 14:15By Amelia Bullmore. Ordinary, middle-aged Joy isn't as innocuous as she looks.(R)
| 14:00Susan jumps to conclusions(R) 14:15David Threlfall stars as Spike Milligan in this comic fantasy by Ian Billings.(R)
| 14:00Elizabeth makes a shocking confession(R) 14:15Daniel Lawrence Taylor's first drama for radio is a razor-sharp satire on gender and power
| 14:00Kenton puts his foot in it(R) 14:15Decommissioned phone boxes reveal their secrets in a series of ‘trapped’ phone calls.
| 14:00Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? 14:30Diane Morgan and Maxine Peake celebrate and perform Beryl Bainbridge's darkly comic novel.
| 14:00Peter Gibbs hosts a correspondence edition from the Barbican Centre in London. 14:45Fi Glover introduces conversations between members of the RNLI team at Spurn Point.
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| 15:00 | 15:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs radio's most fiendish quiz 15:30Food writer Rachel McCormack explores deep fried cuisine throughout Europe
| 15:00Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show from the Garden Museum in Lambeth.(R) 15:30Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages
| 15:00The number of parking tickets issued is on the increase. What can be done to curb it? 15:30Should policy-making organisations in public health partner charities funded by industry?
| 15:00Ian Marchant visits a boggy Highland wilderness that could be the UK's first spaceport. 15:27Gary Lineker makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of World Child Cancer.(R) 15:30A special programme celebrating the breadth and power of writing from the Caribbean
| 15:00Peter Gibbs hosts a correspondence edition from the Barbican Centre in London. 15:45An insurance company employee investigates a suspected arson at a stately home.
| 15:15Lynne Truss asks why travel can both delight and disappoint with travel writer Geoff Dyer(R) 15:30Comedian Jack Rooke profiles his idol, Sri Lankan-British rapper M.I.A.(R)
| 15:002/2Rowland takes sculptor Roderick from the US to Rome with devastating consequences.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:00Amica Dall and Giles Smith look at our relationship with the material world. 16:30Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Hannah Fry to look at the origin of numbers
| 16:00Family law barrister Lucy Reed talks to Michael Rosen about the language of the courtroom. 16:30Matt Lucas chooses Freddie Mercury
| 16:00Laurie Taylor explores the changing middle classes. 16:30Dame Pippa Harris, executive producer behind one of Britain's most popular shows.
| 16:00Adam McKay on his Oscar-nominated comedy Vice 16:30Leonardo's drawings, Super-Mendelian inheritance in mice and the Weddell Sea Expedition
| 16:00Matthew Bannister on a sports writer, a theatre director, a surgeon and a producer. 16:30Tim Harford on domestic violence, employment numbers, and the chance of a white Easter. 16:55It's hard to imagine life away from the close-knit RNLI family.
| 16:00ITV's Lorraine Kelly. The importance of pelvic floor exercises. Women proposing marriage.
| 16:00Chloe Aridjis discusses her novel Sea Monsters, a coming of age story set in 1980s Mexico. 16:30Poet Andrew McMillan takes us inside the world of the gym.
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| 17:00 | 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00PM at 5pm: interviews, context and analysis.
| 17:00Full coverage of the day's news. 17:3026 marathons and weekly protests in a badger outfit. ipm@bbc.co.uk(R) 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
| 17:00Are victims of modern slavery and trafficking being let down? File on 4 investigates.(R) 17:40Becky Milligan profiles Conservative MP Nick Boles. 17:54The latest shipping forecast. 17:57The latest weather forecast.
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| 18:00 | 18:00The Prime Minister tells MPs she'll consider various options before new talks in Brussels 18:305/6Comedians try to smuggle truths past their opponents in David Mitchell's panel game.
| 18:00Zimbabwe's army and police have been accused of systematically torturing protesters. 18:304/6On his road to recovery, Oscar has dropped into the AA meeting on the way to see his son.
| 18:00Man convicted of killing his date in a speedboat crash hands himself in 18:304/4Super-sharp everywoman Angela Barnes laughs at life and packs herself a fantasy coffin.
| 18:00Scotland's former First Minister appears in court charged with sexual offences 18:302/6Mark Steel visits the Norfolk town of King's Lynn and performs for the locals.
| 18:00The increase is linked to recent rise in migrants arriving from France in small boats. 18:30Hugo Rifkind, Neil Delamere, Jen Brister and Nish Kumar join Miles Jupp.
| 18:00US diplomats say progress has been made to end war in Afghanistan. 18:15Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
| 18:00Venezuela's president rejects demand from UK and other countries to hold elections. 18:15The best of BBC Radio this week
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| 19:00 | 19:15Nicole Kidman on her film Destroyer, Fanny Hill, Female Old Masters. 19:451/5Dramatisation of Irene Nemirovsky's (Suite Francaise) beautiful and beguiling debut novel.
| 19:00Susan jumps to conclusions 19:15Oscars 2019 : Roma and The Favourite lead the nominations. 19:452/5Denise falls passionately in love with Great War veteran, Yves.(R)
| 19:00Elizabeth makes a shocking confession 19:15Dick Cheney biopic Vice reviewed by Gavin Esler, plus King Lear set in 1970s Hull 19:453/5Yves gets an opportunity to start afresh in Finland. But Denise gets distraught.(R)
| 19:00Kenton puts his foot in it 19:15The biggest recent TV hits provoking debate, and Bill Viola/Michelangelo reviewed. 19:454/5Nemirovsky's beguiling story of an extra marital affair in post-World War One France.(R)
| 19:00Brian faces an ultimatum(R) 19:15Review of Clint Eastwood's latest film about an elderly drug mule 19:455/5Final episode of Irene Nemirovsky's complex and beguiling love story set in 1920s Paris.(R)
| 19:00Becky Milligan profiles Conservative MP Nick Boles. 19:15When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Kafka's Last Trial, Bonnard, Destroyer
| 19:00Roy finds himself the centre of attention 19:151/6Clare is in charge of organising a day out for some elderly Sparrowhawk residents.(R) 19:454/10The police officer who solved Zoe’s murder has to reconsider 10 years on.
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| 20:00 | 20:00Writer Charles Sprawson reflects on his life as he copes with advancing dementia. 20:30Elderly pensioners in Japan commit petty crimes so that they can be sent to prison.(R)
| 20:00Are victims of modern slavery and trafficking being let down? File on 4 investigates. 20:40Should sighted guide runners receive medals upon completing the London Marathon?
| 20:00Why is a sudden, yet not unexpected, death of someone old or ill, referred to a coroner? 20:45Could artificial intelligence reinvent capitalism?(R)
| 20:00How might Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic be affected by Britain leaving the EU? 20:30Can the fashion for high-end coffee save Colombia’s struggling farmers?
| 20:00Jonathan Dimbleby presents topical debate from The Exchange in Twickenham. 20:50Val McDermid argues that referendums have had a devastating effect on our political system
| 20:00Wayne Hemingway charts 100 years of British advertising examining how we learned to sell.
| 20:00Tim Harford on domestic violence, employment numbers, and the chance of a white Easter. 20:30Matthew Bannister on a sports writer, a theatre director, a surgeon and a producer.(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00Jolyon Jenkins investigates whether we're really in the grip of a narcissism epidemic.(R) 21:30Andrew Marr with Fiona Benson, Louise Pullen, Stephen Bayley and Liam Bright.(R)
| 21:00Should policy-making organisations in public health partner charities funded by industry? 21:30Jonathan Freedland asks how new technologies transformed gambling in the 1840s and today.(R)
| 21:00Historian Professor Fara Dabhoiwala explores the origin of free speech about sex.(R) 21:30The story of how a classic 80’s movie song became an anthem for a new generation.(R)
| 21:00Leonardo's drawings, Super-Mendelian inheritance in mice and the Weddell Sea Expedition(R) 21:30Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of one of the great 20th-century mathematicians.
| 21:00A thriller set in India and inspired by real events.(R)
| 21:00Story charting the rise and fall of pop musician Jim Maclaine. Based on the 1974 film.(R)
| 21:00What warning signs should make you wary about an investment?(R) 21:25Betty Jackson makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Smart Works Charity(R) 21:30Can the fashion for high-end coffee save Colombia’s struggling farmers?(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:45By Esi Edugyan. Wash and Titch are now in America.(R)
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:45By Esi Edugyan. Wash and Titch have found Titch’s father working in the Arctic.(R)
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:45By Esi Edugyan. Washington is in Canada. He wonders if he will see Tanna again.(R)
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:45By Esi Edugyan. Washington has to fight for his life.
| 22:00In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. 22:45By Esi Edugyan. Washington goes in search of Titch.(R)
| 22:00National and international news from BBC Radio 4 22:15Why is a sudden, yet not unexpected, death of someone old or ill, referred to a coroner?
| 22:00Carolyn Quinn and guests preview an important week at Westminster for the Brexit process.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Michael Rosen talks to comedian Elis James about how to make language funny.(R) 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:00Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Hannah Fry to look at the origin of numbers(R) 23:30Sean Curran has the best of the day at Westminster.
| 23:003/4Jenny Eclair's comic monologue stars Lucy Robinson. 23:152/4Canadian stand-up Mae Martin wonders whether labels help or hinder people?(R) 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:003/4Jason has an out-of-this-world plan to increase the show's listenership.(R) 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster.
| 23:00Matt Lucas chooses Freddie Mercury(R) 23:30All the news from today's sitting at Westminster. 23:55If you're a descendant of Grace Darling, what else can you do?
| 23:00Tom Sutcliffe chairs radio's most fiendish quiz(R) 23:30Writer Henry Eliot explores Geoffrey Chaucer’s surreal Dream Vision poems.(R)
| 23:00Adam McKay on his Oscar-nominated comedy Vice(R) 23:30Remona Aly explores the many human, symbolic and religious incarnations of motherhood.(R)
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