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Russell T Davies: ‘I looked away for years. Finally, I have put Aids at the centre of a drama’
The screenwriter recalls his life during the 1980s Aids crisis, and how it inspired his new Channel 4 TV series It’s a Sin
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The mane attraction: hair-tossing horses, photographed by @WiebkeHaas and shortlisted for a 2018 Sony World Photography award – in pictures
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🔸 EXCLUSIVE @pevchikh, right-hand woman to imprisoned Putin critic @navalny, talks to @carolecadwalla
🔸 Our critics' picks for the Oscars
🔸 How the science of Covid vaccines may aid the fight against cancer
Plus @WainBright, director Simon Stone & more
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@sleafordmods hold forth on the state of the nation and who's to blame
Interview by @msmirandasawyer
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Bestselling novelists @MarianKeyes and @richardosman on the heights of success and the lows of addiction
✍️ @LisaAllardice
📸 @davidvintiner
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This Sunday's cover: what an English literature degree did for me – by 40 influential British graduates 📚🎓
Introduction by @jeffreykboakye
Featuring Zadie Smith, @parislees @lindasgrant @TulipSiddiq @DJYodaUK @iNikeshPatel @theJeremyVine, Sarah Waters & more
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Congratulations to Pulitzer finalist @carolecadwalla 🎉
Omg! Only just seen this. V v v honoured to be a Pulitzer finalist alongside @nytimes (omfg!). And tho I got the mention all of team @ObserverUK share in this. Especially top ladies @_EmmaGH @sarah_donaldson & @JaneFerg. And top editors @paulfwebster & @jnmulholland. 👏👏👏
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Rachel Clarke: ‘'The most soul-destroying aspect of this second wave is to a very large extent this could have been prevented.’ @LisaOKelly interviews @doctor_oxford theguardian.com/world/2021/j…
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‘We do our work because we are angry’: Maria Pevchikh, right-hand woman to imprisoned Putin critic Alexei Navalny’s colleague talks to @carolecadwalla
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Award-winning actors Jodie Comer and @StephenGraham73 on friendship and their hard-hitting new care home drama set at the start of the pandemic
Interview by @carmitstead
Photos by Pål Hansen
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Staged's Anna Lundberg and Georgia Tennant: 'Scenes with all four of us usually involved alcohol'
On the eve of the second series of the BBC's hit lockdown sitcom, @michaelhogan talks to Michael Sheen and David Tennant's scene-stealing partners
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‘I only want to talk about this once’: Shane Meadows speaks to @msmirandasawyer about the horrific episode from his own childhood that inspired his new TV drama #TheVirtues
This week's cover story. Portrait by @AOlmosPhotos
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.@MsRachelCooke interviews @BethRigby: 'I’m going to have to get off telly soon, because I’ll be too old'
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@KermodeMovie and @simonmayo answer questions from Observer readers and famous fans – including @ThandiweNewton @jasonsfolly @AshleyWalters82 @edgarwright @AmmaAsante @asifkapadia @_CarolMorley & more
✍️ @msmirandasawyer
📸 @davidvintiner
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Bafta-winning Chewing Gum creator @MichaelaCoel on bullying, renouncing Christianity & ending up in a sex club theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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@TimAdamsWrites talks to the hosts of Parkinson's podcast Movers & Shakers @moversand6 - including Jeremy Paxman, Gillian @LaceySolymar and Rory Cellan-Jones - about challenging attitudes to the condition
📸 @AOlmosPhotos
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Meet Julie K Brown (@jkbjournalist), the Miami Herald reporter who brought down billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
Interview by Andrew Anthony
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‘Anyone who wants to go into politics should be banned’: @mrjamesob on staying hopeful, changing minds, and why he’s not smug
Q&A by @NosheenIqbal
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@sparksofficial: The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte review – one artful pop banger after another
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On the cover this Sun: @MichaelaCoel, Bafta-winning creator of sitcom Chewing Gum, on race, religion & making her rude, racy hit show
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.@HAIMtheband's Something to Tell You – the LA trio add a bittersweet edge to their fusion of retro pop styles ★★★★
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🎵 One to watch: @findingfletcher peels back the layers of a catastrophic break-up with a surgeon’s precision, writes @MichaelCragg
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Nigel Farage shouldn’t be in the jungle – get him out of there! | Stewart Lee dlvr.it/SzKby2
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Britain is a dying nation in need of new curators | Stewart Lee
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‘It’s hilarious that popular fiction is an insult’: bestselling novelists @MarianKeyes and @richardosman talk writing, addiction – and why they wouldn’t do Strictly
✍️ @LisaAllardice
📸 @davidvintiner
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Cherry Valentine remembered by @biminibabes
The drag queen and star of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK recalls the performer’s bravery in challenging preconceptions
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Game of Thrones star @emiliaclarke on making her British stage debut in The Seagull @JamieLloydCo
✍️ @kathryn42
📸 Pål Hansen
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Matt Smith on @TheCrownNetflix: “I found a lot to celebrate in Philip”
This week's cover story, by @nibser
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.@msmirandasawyer interviews @Dawn_French: 'I feel genuine grief about what is going on in the arts' theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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French evolutionary biologist Léo Grasset (@dirtybiology) on research, failure, and teaching people to think theguardian.com/science/2016…
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Diane Morgan: ‘It sounds mad that I wrote, directed and star in Mandy. Like I’m Orson Welles'
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.@Martina Navratilova: ‘I try to do the right thing, not the popular thing’
Interview by @bindelj
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? is @KermodeMovie's film of the week – enjoyable real-life caper starring @melissamccarthy and @RichardEGrant
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.@AstroKatie: 'I didn't anticipate being in a pop song when I went off to study physics'
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Peter Gabriel: i/o review – a glorious, late-career masterpiece dlvr.it/SzdxtK
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This Sunday's cover: our 10 best debut novelists of 2022 📚
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On my radar: Harry Potter star @TomFelton on a play about teen depression, his George Harrison fix, and the Lin-Manuel Miranda film he’s obsessed with
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Tavistock Trust whistleblower David Bell: 'I believed I was doing the right thing'
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This Sunday's cover: @angiecthomas, award-winning author of #TheHateUGive, answers your questions
PLUS:
@eddiemair interviewed by @msmirandasawyer
@JillAbramson speaks to @MsRachelCooke
Artists' postcards @britishmuseum
@RichardEGrant's cultural highlights
& much more
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Edvard Munch: Love and Angst @britishmuseum – the original Scandi noir
Review by @LauraCummingArt
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On my radar: @samfendermusic on his favourite bath time podcast, a second world war memoir and where to get the best breakfast kippers
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@talkingsopranos @rileysfishshack
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On the set of Last Night In Soho with photographer Greg Williams (@GregWInsight) – in pictures
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.@TheRoyalBallet's Marianela Nuñez: ‘Ballet isn’t elitist – it’s our responsibility to make people get it’
Q&A by @Sarahc_k
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On the anniversary of the #CambridgeAnalyticaFiles, what's changed?
@carolecadwalla talks to @chrisinsilico about the aftermath of the scandal that radically altered the way we think about big tech
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@beastieboys talk to @msmirandasawyer - about their long awaited memoir: ‘being in a band… it’s an absurd comedy’
Photo: Mike McGregor
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Lindsay Lohan: ‘I needed to grow up and London was a better place to do that than anywhere else’ gu.com/p/444b3/tw #Observerfacesof2014
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A year on from the #CambridgeAnalyticaFiles, @carolecadwalla speaks to whistleblower @chrisinsilico about the fallout for big tech, and the fight to hold the culprits to account
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‘Being trans is not something you put on and take off. It’s part of who you are’
@RowanMoore and his son @felixmooreactor discuss the main challenges facing trans people today. 📸 Gabby Laurent
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Poet @lemnsissay, with the help of London’s @FoundlingMuseum, has brought together 59 athletes, artists, CEOs and others who, like him, spent part of their childhoods in care
Introduction by @carmitstead
Interviews by @killianfox0
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“Lovers Rock is my musical, but it’s a different kind of musical"
Steve McQueen opens up about his musical influences - and discusses the tracks that are the very essence of his film #loversrock
#smallaxe
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This Sunday's cover: broadcaster @jonsnowC4 on stepping down after 45 years in news
Interview by @MsRachelCooke
(📷 @phil_fisk)
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West London rapper @ajtracey speaks to @katehutchinson about how 2019 has been his breakout year – and why Boris Johnson is ‘a very small man’
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Vote no to the thinktank pod people trying to body-snatch the National Trust | Stewart Lee dlvr.it/SwXJtL
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In this Sunday's Observer Music: cover star @QueensChristine talks pop, pansexuality, and the power of the alter ego
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Japanese kabuki prints by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) @britishmuseum – in pictures
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‘I really believe cinema can effect social change’: Oscar-nominated director @NadineLabaki speaks to @MsRachelCooke
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@TracyBrabin on becoming mayor for West Yorkshire, her friendship with Jo Cox, and how she hopes to "bring back northern pride"
Interview by @TimAdamsWrites
Photos by @garycaltonphoto
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Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran review – the Latin queen is back on top dlvr.it/T4W70c
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Aisling Bea: ‘Bury me in a coffin made out of potato waffles’ dlvr.it/T3D3J9
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‘We’re both romantic about what politics can be’: @campbellclaret and @RoryStewartUK on their double act @Restispolitics
Interview by @MsRachelCooke
📸 @garycaltonphoto
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Obituaries special: those we lost in 2021
‘She was too young. You can’t help but think of all the amazing roles she would have had’: Helen McCrory remembered by Cillian Murphy
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The art of @StanleyDonwood, known to @radiohead fans as the man behind the band’s album artwork – in pictures
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'On stage, there is the possibility of magic': @QueensChristine, @futureislands, @nilerodgers, @Tim_Burgess, @HAIMtheband, @Hot_Chip, @annacalvi, @perfumegenius, @rufuswainwright, @thenitinsawhney, @plasmatron and @JULIA_HOLTER on the joy of live music
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‘Who am I kidding? I’m a showboat!’
@florencemachine talks to Kate Mossman about the ‘monster of performance’, the conflict between career and motherhood, and sounding like ‘Nick Cave at the club’
📸 Lillie Eiger
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Q&A: BBC's Ros Atkins - '2021's explainer-in-chief'
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‘We’re not scared to be real’: Derry Girl @SaoirseJackson speaks to @Holly_bops about fame, facial contortions, and globalising Northern Irish slang. Portrait by @sukidhanda
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The indie publishing mavericks shaking up the UK books world dlvr.it/SsFjl1
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@SELFESTEEM___ live at Gorilla, Manchester reviewed by @kittyempire666 – rallying cries from a woman reborn
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Feast your eyes, feed your soul.
It’s day one of our January art diet - a daily work selected by @LauraCummingArt
The Skating Minister by Sir Henry Raeburn (c1795)
“…poised on one red-ribboned skate, the ice incised with his elegant arabesques…”
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'If it's not a risk then it's nothing': Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux on her unapologetic career
Interview by @aliceblackhurst
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Exclusive extract: @LauraCummingArt memoir - "a modern masterpiece" theguardian.com/books/2019/j…
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So where did it all go wrong, Toby? Let us count the ways
Stewart Lee on the “Maverick Toadmeister’s” “shock” resignation
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@Johnny_Marr answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans, including @BlondieOfficial @sleafordmods @MPeakeOfficial @paulineblack @AndyBurnhamGM & more
Interview by @TimLewi5
📸 Pål Hansen
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One to watch: @scarypoolparty blends the moody, bold electro-rock of Nine Inch Nails with powerful and sincere vocals | @GregoryJourno
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@florencemachine talks about the irresistible ‘monster of performance’, the conflict between career and motherhood, and sounding like ‘Nick Cave at the club’
✍️ Kate Mossman
📸 Lillie Eiger
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@idlesband live @LondonLafayette – like being punched and hugged at the same time
Review by @Dorianlynskey
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The Observer's obituaries of 2020:
- Diana Rigg remembered by @Markgatiss
- Sean Connery remembered by Jackie Stewart
- Little Richard remembered by @Bootsy_Collins
- Chadwick Boseman remembered by @iamRuthECarter
+ Juliette Gréco, Lynn Shelton, Diego Maradona, RBG & more
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Olivia Cooke: ‘There aren’t a lot of working-class actors’
The star actor talks about Hollywood and home, and refusing to be typecast as a ‘northern actress’.
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Kane @TheRealKano Robinson and Daniel Kaluuya on drawing on their their London childhoods for their new movie, dystopian thriller #TheKitchen
✍️ @msmirandasawyer
📸 @phil_fisk
Styling Cheryl Konteh
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What an English degree did for me, by 40 stars of stage, screen and page
Introduction by @jeffreykboakye
Featuring Zadie Smith, @parislees @lindasgrant @TulipSiddiq @DJYodaUK @iNikeshPatel @theJeremyVine, Sarah Waters & more
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Margaret Atwood: ‘She’s ahead of everyone in the room’ theguardian.com/books/2019/s…
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What's on @ChelseaClinton cultural radar? Take a bow: @99piorg + @CherylStrayed ...theguardian.com/culture/2017…
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Happy Valley's Siobhan Finneran: ‘It’s always a joy to work with another actress who actually eats cake’
Q&A by @michaelhogan
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This Sunday's cover: the 10 best debut novelists for 2024 📚
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Taylor Swift: Folklore review – love and loss in lockdown
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Feed your soul: the 31-day classical music diet for January
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Picked by @FionaMaddocks
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The Sparks Brothers reviewed by @KermodeMovie – @edgarwright is a perfect fit for the absurdist antics of art pop’s most elusive duo
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Candice Brathwaite: 'I’m at the forefront of a discussion that will save women’s lives' theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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This Sunday:
Meet 2021's best debut novelists: @CalebANelson Sam Riviere @mmegannnolan Natasha Brown @abigailsdean, @TroubledStriker @rebeccawhatsun @ThoroughlyThorp Ailsa McFarlane & @imaginearoad
+ @AshleyWalters82 Ethan Hawke David Mitchell & Tabitha Lasley's oil rig memoir
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‘I love the perversity of it’: Bad Seed @warrenellis13 on how Nina Simone’s gum inspired a book
Interview by Sean O’Hagan
📸 @cyrilzed
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Congrats to the brilliant @LauraCummingArt - Critic of the Year at last night’s press awards, here with highly commended colleague @jayrayner1. Congrats also to shortlisted writers @MsRachelCooke and @TimAdamsWrites. What a team of writers @ObserverUK has! We are v proud 👏🙏🙌
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On my radar: author @OliverJeffers on boxing, unfinished paintings and performing pigeons theguardian.com/culture/2016…
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Faces of 2021
Bake-Off contestant Jürgen Krauss: ‘I had to call three families with crying kids to comfort them’
Interview by @DonnaLFerguson
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@idlesband's Crawler reviewed by @pixapumpkin – thrilling, glass-gargling introspection
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‘Kids need two things – love and education’: how @IanWright0 and Musa @Okwonga are inspiring young people through fiction
Interview by @TimAdamsWrites
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Public Enemy founder @MrChuckD on his new book on hip-hop's history, his childhood, and losing his father. Interview by @msmirandasawyer
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LBC radio host @mrjamesob on becoming famous for his trademark riffs & what keeps him going through these dark times theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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