the times | Monday January 3 2022 9television & radio
Film The Train
BBC2, 1.55pmA pair of high-class
performances power
this Second World War
yarn. Burt Lancaster
is a member of the
French Resistance
pitched against a
German colonel (Paul
Schofield) trying to
move stolen artworks
by train from France to
Germany. (U, 1964)that shocks even
the hardened
professionals dealing
with the case. Once
again the level of
access afforded the
camera team is
extraordinary as we
move from footage of
the anxious couple in
hospital to the early
stages of a murder
investigation that
concludes tomorrow.
Not an easy watch.24 Hours in
Police Custody
Channel 4, 9pmA 999 call from a
couple in St Neots,
Cambridgeshire,
reports that a baby is
unresponsive and has
stopped breathing,
kick-starting this
harrowing two-part
account of a story of
child neglect, cruelty
and spousal abusehimself, the format
works particularly well
here. However, the
critical consensus is
not wholly favourable
as we hear people such
as Andrew Graham-
Dixon bemoaning the
kitsch horrors of Dalí’s
mausoleum and Robert
Hughes describing the
painter’s tache as “the
only rival to Van Gogh’s
ear and Picasso’s
potency”.The Great
Salvador Dali
BBC4, 9pmThe second series of
Art on the BBC essays
based on a rummage
through Auntie’s
archives by young
British art historians
begins with David
Dibosa on Salvador
Dalí. Given Dalí’s
showmanship and use
of television to promoteInside Dubai
BBC2, 9pm“This one... belongs to
the Mugabe family...
they do amazing
parties, actually, on
New Year’s Eve,” Dubai
resident Gaynor Scott
says as she drives
through the suburb of
Emirates Hills, home
to some of the Arabian
desert oasis’s 52,000
millionaires and2.5 million expats. The
lack of self-awareness
of some of the people
we meet is the chief
joy of this gawp, with
flickers of tensions
beneath the tacky
excess. As we’re shown
round her home, Scott
picks up two books
by Dubai’s (cough)
controversial ruler
Sheikh Mohammed and
tells us how great she
thinks he is. Hmm.BBC1 N Ireland
As BBC1 except: 10.35pm The Blame Game
Best Bits. Highlights from the 2021 run of the
comedy panel game 11.05 Have I Got 2021
News for You. A compilation looking back
at the big news of 2021 (r) 11.50 Mrs Brown’s
Boys New Year’s Special. Grandad’s ex-con
brother turns up (r) (AD) 12.20am The
Graham Norton Show. With guests including
Jessica Chastain, Claire Foy, Joe Lycett and
Cush Jumbo (r) 1.25-6.00 BBC NewsBBC1 Wales
As BBC1 except: 9.00pm-10.00 Slammed.
New series. Documentary series charting
the rise of the Wales rugby teamBBC2 N Ireland
As BBC2 except: 10.00pm Ar an Sliabh. New
series. Documentary following life in Ireland’s
mountain communities (AD) 10.30 Frankie
Boyle’s 2021 New World Order. The comedian
returns with his end of year special (r) 11.15
NIFL Premiership Highlights. The weekend’s
Irish Premiership football action 11.50-
12.05am Barra on the Foyle. Barra Best
travels along the Foyle river network (r)BBC2 Wales
As BBC2 except: 9.00pm Four Lives.
Fact-based drama starring Stephen Merchant
and Sheridan Smith. See Viewing Guide 10.00
Inside Dubai: Playground of the Rich. New
series. Life in the tax haven in the United Arab
Emirates. See Viewing Guide 11.00-11.30
Coast. Nick Crane visits Nova Scotia in Canada
to learn about early British settlers (r)ITV Wales
As ITV except: 6.50pm-7.00 ITV News WalesSTV
As ITV except: 4.15am-5.05 Unwind with STVBBC Scotland
2.00pm Sign Zone: Inside the Zoo (r) 3.00
Sign Zone: Inside Central Station (r)
4.00-4.05 Sign Zone: Resolutions (r) 7.00 The
Seven 7.30 Sportscene 8.00 This Farming Life
(r) 9.00 Walter: A Life in Football (r) 10.00
River City (AD) 11.00 The Karen Dunbar Show
(r) 11.30-12.00 Gary: Tank Commander (r)BBC Alba
6.00am Alba Today 5.00pm An Fhaochag agus
a’ Mhuc-mhara (r) 5.30 Boidse na
Caillich-oidhche (r) 6.00 Na Dana-thursan aig
Tintin/The Adventures of Tintin (r) 6.25 Sol
6.55 An Là (News) 7.00 Iorram: Boat Song (r)
8.30 Fuine (Home Baking). Gregor MacLeod
shares tips (r) 9.00 Trusadh (Compelling
Stories) (r) 10.00 Bannan (The Ties That Bind)
(r) 10.30 Maorach: Hebridean Shellfish (r)
11.30 Mach as mo Rathad/Born to Drive (r)
12.00-6.00am Alba TodayS4C
6.00am Cyw: Timpo (r) 6.10 Do Re Mi Dona (r)
6.25 Y Brodyr Coala (r) 6.35 Nico Nôg (r) 6.45
Sigldigwt (r) 7.00 Bach a Mawr (r) 7.10 Ty Mêl
(r) 7.20 Shwshaswyn (r) 7.30 Fferm Fach 7.45
Pablo 8.00 Blociau Rhif (r) 8.05 Sbridiri (r)
8.25 Guto Gwningen (r) 8.40 Anifeiliaid Bach y
Byd (r) 8.50 Cei Bach (r) 9.05 Olobobs (r) 9.10
Oli Wyn (r) 9.20 Octonots (r) 9.30 Antur Natur
Cyw (r) 9.45 Patrôl Pawennau (r) 10.00 Peppa
(r) 10.05 Jamborî (r) 10.15 Guto Gwningen (r)
10.30 Tili a’i Ffrindiau (r) 10.40 Dathlu ’Da
Dona (r) 10.55 Ynys Broc Môr Lili (r) 11.05
Nico Nôg (r) 11.15 Patrôl Pawennau (r) 11.30
Fferm Fach (r) 11.45 Sion y Chef (r) 12.00
Cymry ar Gynfas (r) 12.30pm Heno Aur (r)
1.00 Cegin Bryn (r) 1.30 Y Tyrchwyr gyda Iolo
Williams (r) (AD) 2.00 News; Weather 2.05
Pantomein y Ffermwyr Ifanc (r) 3.00 News;
Weather 3.05 Am Dro Selebs! (r) (AD) 4.00
Awr Fawr: Timpo (r) 4.10 Jamborî (r) 4.20
Nico Nôg (r) 4.30 Fferm Fach (r) 4.45 Patrôl
Pawennau (r) 5.00 Stwnsh: Cath-Od (r) 5.10
Siwrne Ni (r) 5.15 Arthur a Chriw y Ford Gron
(r) 5.30 Sgorio (r) 5.55 Larfa (r) 6.00 Byd o
Liw: Cestyll (r) 6.30 Rownd a Rownd (r) (AD)
6.57 News 7.00 Adre (r) 7.30 24 Awr (r) 7.45
News; Weather 8.00 Yn y Ffram 8.55 News;
Weather 9.00 Teulu Shadog: Blwyddyn ar y
Fferm. A year in the life of a farming family
9.30 Bois y Rhondda (r) 10.00 Sgorio (r)
10.30-11.35 Gwesty Aduniad (r)Variations
6.00am Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of
Houses (r) 10.00 Harry Potter: A Who’s Who of
the Wizarding World (r) 11.00 Football’s
Funniest Moments (r) (AD) 1.00pm Golf’s
Funniest Moments (r) (AD) 2.00 FILM: The
Amazing Mr Blunden (PG, TVM, 2021)
Fantasy starring Tsion Habte and Jason Rennie
4.00 Rugby’s Funniest Moments (r) (AD) 5.00
Sport’s Funniest Moments. Farcical moments
from the sporting world (r) (AD)
6.00 Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to
Hogwarts. With Daniel Radcliffe (r)
8.00 A League of Their Own. A look back at the
best moments from series 15 (r) (AD)
9.00 FILM: The Fog (15, 1980) The residents
of a coastal community are besieged by ghosts.
Horror starring Adrienne Barbeau
11.45 Road Wars. Officers get a surprise (r)
11.55 Russell Howard Hour: Selection Box (r)
12.45am We’re Here. Heading to Hawaii (r)
2.00 Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol (r) 4.00
Road Wars (r) (AD) 5.00 Send in the Dogs (r)
6.00am Richard E Grant’s Hotel Secrets (r) (AD)
7.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (r) 7.55
Scenes from a Marriage (r) (AD) 1.35pm In
Treatment (r) 3.20 Six Feet Under (r) (AD) 5.40
The Wire. Drama starring Dominic West (r)
6.45 The Wire. D’Angelo Barksdale is questioned
after a witness in his trial is murdered (r)
7.50 Game of Thrones. First episode of the
fantasy drama starring Sean Bean. Lord Eddard
Stark faces a dilemma when he is asked to serve
at the side of King Robert Baratheon (r) (AD)
9.00 Dexter: New Blood. Dexter and Harrison
find themselves closer than ever over Christmas
break, and Angela starts to wonder if Iron Lake
is not as safe as she thought it was (9/10) (r)
10.05 Euphoria: Trouble Don’t Last Always.
The first of two feature-length specials of the
provocative coming-of-age drama (r) (AD)
11.10 Billions. Drama starring Paul Giamatti
and Damian Lewis (1/12) (r) (AD)
12.15am Billions (r) (AD) 2.25 Yellowjackets
(r) 3.30 In Treatment (r) 4.05 Fish Town (r)6.00am The Directors (r) 8.00 Hollywood
Couples (r) 10.00 Rise of the Superheroes (r)
12.10pm Unbreakable: The Steve Zakuani
Story (r) 1.20 Laurel Canyon (r) 4.40 What’s
My Name: Muhammad Ali (r) (AD)
6.20 What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali (r) (AD)
8.00 FILM: The Bee Gees — How Can You
Mend a Broken Heart (12, 2020)
Documentary exploring the history of the group,
featuring contributions from surviving member
Barry Gibb as well as archive interviews
with his brothers Robin and Maurice
10.00 The Man Who Bought Cricket (r)
11.00 The Man Who Bought Cricket (r)
12.00 FILM: Fire in Babylon (12, 2010)
Documentary about the 1970s West Indian
cricket team 1.45am FILM: Pariah — The
Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston (15,
TVM, 2020) A look at the life and suspicious
death of the iconic boxer 3.30 The
Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben
Bradlee (r) 5.10 The Directors (r)6.00am Hollywood: Singing and Dancing (AD)
7.15 Sir John Eliot Gardiner Conducts
Mendelssohn & Schumann 9.00 Tales of the
Unexpected 10.00 Discovering: Gregory Peck
11.00 Treasures of the British Library 12.00
I, Claude Monet 1.00pm Tales of the
Unexpected 2.00 Discovering: Claudia Cardinale
3.00 Exhibition on Screen (AD) 4.00 Jefferson
Airplane: Music Icons 4.30 Video Killed the
Radio Star 5.00 Tales of the Unexpected
6.00 Discovering: Walter Matthau (AD)
7.00 Vermeer from the National Gallery, London.
Exploring the artist’s technique and materials
8.00 André Rieu: Welcome to My World
9.00 FILM: Hitsville: The Making of
Motown (12, 2019) Rare performances,
interviews and rarely seen footage come
together to paint a picture of Motown
11.00 Guy Garvey: From the Vaults
12.00 Sky Arts Book Club 1.00am A Play
in a Day 2.00 Download Festival Reloaded
4.00 Classic Albums 5.00 Auction6.00am Sky Sports News 7.00 Good Morning
Sports Fans 7.30 Live Test Cricket: South Africa
v India. Coverage of day one of the second Test
in the three-match series 12.00 Live SPFL:
Hibernian v Hearts (Kick-off 12.30). Coverage of
the Scottish Premiership match at Easter Road
2.45pm Live EFL: Swansea City v Fulham
(Kick-off 3.00). Coverage of the Championship
match Swansea.com Stadium 5.00 Live MNF:
Manchester United v Wolves (Kick-off 5.30).
Coverage of the Premier League match at Old
Trafford. United recorded a 1-0 win when the
sides met at Molineux courtesy of an
80th-minute strike from Mason Greenwood and
left it even later to prevail by the same scoreline
in last season’s corresponding fixture here
8.00 Live World Darts Championship. The final
on day 16 at Alexandra Palace in London
11.00 Live: NFL Fantasy
12.00 Live: Total Access 1.00am Live NFL:
Pittsburgh Steelers v Cleveland Browns (Kick-off
1.15). From Heinz Field 4.30 Sky Sports NewsSky Max Sky Atlantic Sky Documentaries Sky Arts Sky Main Event
6.00am Classic Coronation Street 7.00 Classic
Emmerdale 8.05 On the Buses 9.15 The Ruth
Rendell Mysteries 11.35 Heartbeat (AD)
1.45pm Classic Emmerdale 2.50 Classic
Coronation Street 3.55 Agatha Christie’s Poirot.
The sleuth reopens a 14-year-old case (AD)
6.00 Heartbeat. Miller lands in trouble
after running down a pedestrian (AD)
7.00 Heartbeat. The villagers leave Aidensfield
en masse to support Rob and David’s jury duty
is more trouble than he imagined (AD)
8.00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot. The sleuth
attends a North African archaeological dig, and
an aristocrat’s wife is stabbed to death (AD)
10.00 The Bay. DC Lisa Armstrong is given
the opportunity to assist in a murder
investigation in Morecambe (1/6) (AD)
11.00 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries. Part one of
two. A girl’s body is found in the Fens and the
investigation takes a complicated turn
12.10am The Ruth Rendell Mysteries. Part two
of two. Eddie Brannel protests his innocence
1.20 Wild Bill. Comedy drama starring Rob Lowe
(AD) 2.15 Unwind with ITV 2.30 Teleshopping
6.00am World of Sport 6.10 The Protectors
(SL) 6.35 Minder (AD, SL) 7.25 Robin of
Sherwood 8.30 The Avengers 9.40 The Sweeney
10.45 Minder (AD) 11.50 FILM: The Sting
(PG, 1973) Depression-era comedy drama with
Robert Redford and Paul Newman 2.30pm
FILM: Ghostbusters (12, 1984) Supernatural
comedy starring Bill Murray (AD) 4.35 FILM:
Ghostbusters II (PG, 1989) Supernatural
comedy sequel starring Bill Murray (AD)
6.45 FILM: Dr No (PG, 1962) A criminal
plots to sabotage America’s space programme.
Spy thriller starring Sean Connery (AD)
9.00 FILM: Aliens (18, 1986) Lone survivor
Ripley joins a military expedition that
encounters hordes of the creatures that wiped
out her crew. Sci-fi thriller sequel starring
Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn
11.45 FILM: Face/Off (18, 1997) An FBI
agent has the face of a terrorist grafted onto his
own to foil a bombing, only for the criminal to
assume his identity. Action thriller starring
John Travolta and Nicolas Cage (AD)
2.35am Unwind with ITV 3.00 Teleshopping6.00am Teleshopping 7.10 Sin City Motors
8.00 World’s Most Dangerous Roads 10.00 Red
Bull Soapbox Race 2018 12.00 Would I Lie to
You? The Unseen Bits 12.35pm Would I
Lie to You? 1.55 Gavin & Stacey (AD)
6.00 Taskmaster
7.00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA.
With star guest Jeanine Mason
7.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA.
With star guest Adam Rippon
8.00 Travel Man: 48 Hours in Rome. Richard
Ayoade and Matt Lucas visit the city (AD)
8.30 Travel Man: 48 Hours in Valencia. Richard
Ayoade and Sara Pascoe explore the city (AD)
9.00 QI XL. Extended edition. With Bill Bailey,
Sandi Toksvig and Jason Manford
10.00 Live at the Apollo. Ellie Taylor presents,
with sets by Fin Taylor and Tez Ilyas
11.00 The Misadventures of Romesh
Ranganathan. Visiting Albania (AD)
12.00 Mock the Week: Election Special
12.40am QI XL 1.40 Live at the Apollo
2.35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA 3.35
Eddie Eats America 4.00 Teleshopping6.00am Teleshopping 7.25 Bread 8.30 The Bill
9.35 Classic Holby City 10.55 Classic Casualty
12.00 The Bill 1.00pm Classic EastEnders 2.15
Tenko 3.20 All Creatures Great and Small 4.20
Peak Practice 5.20 Keeping Up Appearances
6.00 Are You Being Served?
6.40 Last of the Summer Wine. Clegg agrees to
drive Ludovic’s newly acquired van home for him
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine. Compo, Clegg
and Foggy put their unique talents to good use
in the church concert. Comedy starring Bill Owen
8.00 Jonathan Creek. A dead body impossibly
vanishes from a locked study, but the mysteries
do not end there for Jonathan and Joey (AD)
10.00 New Tricks. Sandra and the team try to
unmask an assassin killing off the men who took
part in a covert MI5 operation 30 years earlier
— a mission involving Strickland (10/10) (AD)
11.20 Judge John Deed who went on the run
16 years previously after being charged with
attempted murder. Starring Martin Shaw, Jenny
Seagrove and Robert Cavanah (1/6) (AD)
1.20am Kavanagh QC. John Thaw stars 2.40
Where the Heart Is (AD) 4.00 Teleshopping6.00am Impossible Engineering (AD) 8.00
Adolf Hitler’s War 2.00pm Great British
Railway Journeys Goes to Ireland 3.30
Great British Railway Journeys
6.00 Antiques Roadshow. Fiona Bruce presents
the show from Aerospace in Bristol
7.00 Secrets of the Transport Museum. The
legendary Napier-Railton has a service and some
treasure is found in the museum tower (9/10)
8.00 The Architecture The Railways Built.
Tim Dunn rides up Mount Snowdon’s railway to
visit the summit station, and discovers how a
glass structure envelopes Strasbourg’s
19th-century station (7/10) (AD)
9.00 Steam Train Britain. At the East
Lancashire Railway, the annual Race the
Train event gets under way (AD)
10.00 Bangers and Cash. A MG Midget,
an Austin-Healey “frogeye” Sprite and an
RS2000 come up for auction (9/10)
11.00 Bangers and Cash. Dave’s son Jack heads
to Cheshire to collect two cars (10/10)
12.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD) 1.00am
Impossible Engineering (AD) 3.00 TeleshoppingITV3 ITV4 Yesterday
7.00pm Great British Railway Journeys. Michael
Portillo explores Britain between the world wars
7.30 Winter Walks. Famous faces explore
landscapes in Yorkshire and Cumbria
8.00 Fake or Fortune? Fiona Bruce, Philip
Mould and Bendor Grosvenor come to the aid of
a man who has inherited three paintings and
needs to prove they are by LS Lowry
9.00 Art on the BBC: The Great Salvador Dali.
David Dibosa explores the BBC archives to create
a television history of one of art’s greatest
showmen, Salvador Dalí. See Viewing Guide
10.00 How to Be a Surrealist with Philippa
Perry. The psychotherapist examines the roots
of surrealism, which was established in the
political upheavals of 1920s Europe, and looks at
new ways of understanding the human psyche
11.00 Life of a Mountain: A Year on Helvellyn.
Capturing a year in the life of the Lake District’s
most popular peak, featuring insights from
those that live by and visit the mountain
12.30am Winter Walks. Britain between the
world wars 1.00 Great British Railway Journeys
1.30 Art on the BBC: The Great Salvador
Dali 2.30-3.30 Fake or Fortune? (SL)
6.00am FILM: Borderline (PG, 1950) (b/w)
7.40 FILM: One Jump Ahead (PG, 1955)
(b/w) 9.00 Together 9.30 The Adventures of
William Tell (b/w) 10.00 FILM: The Mark of
Zorro (U, 1940) Adventure (b/w) 11.55
A-Bob-In-The-Pound with Tommy Handley:
Glimpses 12.00 FILM: One Million Years BC
(PG, 1966) Hammer prehistoric adventure
starring Raquel Welch 2.00pm Rooms 3.00
FILM: Night Boat to Dublin (PG, 1946)
Second World War thriller with Robert Newton
(b/w) 4.55 An Evening with Matt Monro
6.00 Scotland Yard
6.35 FILM: Bond of Fear (PG, 1956)
Crime drama starring Dermot Walsh (b/w)
7.55 Report On Litter
8.00 The Main Chance
9.00 FILM: The Criminal (12, 1960)
Prison drama starring Stanley Baker (b/w)
11.00 FILM: Brokedown Palace (12, 1999)
Prisons drama starring Claire Danes
1.05am FILM: Sabotage (PG, 1936) Alfred
Hitchcock’s thriller (b/w) 2.40 FILM: The Rat
Race (PG, 1960) 4.45 Waverley Steps
5.30 The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (b/w)8.55am Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures 9.15
A Place in the Sun 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It
1.05pm Building the Dream 2.10 Four in a Bed
4.55 Find It, Fix It, Flog It. Two editions
6.55 Escape to the Château: Designing the
Dream. The transformation of the Château
7.55 Grand Designs. Kevin McCloud follows a
project near Newbury to construct a modern
farmhouse that combines an open-plan party
pad with functional spaces below (9/12)
9.00 Love It or List It Australia. New series.
Andrew Winter and Neale Whitaker help a
couple decide what to do with their 1940s
bungalow in Melbourne’s Kew East
10.00 George Clarke’s Remarkable Renovations.
The architect follows people as they transform
former commercial properties, beginning
with a Cornwall couple converting their
former high street bank into a home (1/6)
11.05 24 Hours in A&E. A 12-year-old is
airlifted to St George’s after he is struck by
a motorcycle on his way home from school
12.15am Emergency Helicopter Medics 1.20
George Clarke’s Remarkable Renovations 2.20
24 Hours in A&E 3.25-3.50 Food Unwrapped11.00am Bee Movie (U, 2007) Animated
comedy with the voice of Jerry Seinfeld
12.50pm Hotel for Dogs (U, 2009) Family
comedy with Emma Roberts and Jake T Austin
2.55 Monster Trucks (PG, 2016) Fantasy
adventure starring Lucas Till 5.00 Wonder
(PG, 2017) Drama starring Jacob Tremblay
7.10 Black Knight (PG, 2001) An employee
at a run-down medieval theme park knocks
himself unconscious, only to wake up in
14th-century England. Comedy adventure
starring Martin Lawrence and Tom Wilkinson
9.00 World War Z (15, 2013) A UN
investigator travels the world to find a cure for
a virus that is bringing human civilisation to an
end. Thriller starring Brad Pitt and Mireille Enos
11.15 Starred Up (18, 2013) A young
offender is transferred to an adult prison, where
he is reunited with his father and must learn to
control his rage. Drama starring Jack O’Connell
1.25am-3.40 The Taking of Pelham 123
(15, 1974) A ruthless criminal and his gang
hijack a crowded New York subway train and
demand a $1million ransom. Thriller starring
Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw6.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records 6.45 Celebrity Supermarket Sweep (AD)
7.50 In for a Penny (AD) 8.20 You’ve Been
Framed! Gold 9.10 The Masked Singer (AD)
10.45 Celebrity Catchphrase (AD) 11.45 You’ve
Been Framed! & Famous 12.50pm FILM: Space
Jam (U, 1996) Live action and animated
comedy with Michael Jordan (AD) 2.35 FILM:
Back to the Future Part III (PG, 1990) Sci-fi
comedy sequel starring Michael J Fox (AD) 4.55
FILM: Despicable Me 3 (U, 2017) Animated
sequel with the voice of Steve Carell (AD)
6.40 FILM: Pitch Perfect 2 (12, 2015)
Comedy sequel starring Anna Kendrick
9.00 The Cabins. New series. Dating show in
which single people are paired up, sent to log
cabins and have to decide to stay or leave
10.00 Family Guy (AD)
10.30 Family Guy (AD)
11.00 Family Guy (AD)
11.30 American Dad! (AD)
12.00 American Dad! Roger excels at jingle
writing (AD) 12.25am Bob’s Burgers (AD) 1.25
Superstore (AD) 2.20 The Stand Up Sketch
Show 3.20 Unwind with ITV 3.30 TeleshoppingBBC4 Talking Pictures More4 Film4 ITV2
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