TV guide - Tuesday, 18/03/25

00:10
Come Dine with Me
Today it's the turn of student and Muay Thai fanatic Saoirse to try and grab the grand and she's going for a vegan Asian menu.
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00:35
Come Dine with Me
Third up this week is 52 year old civil servant Lydia who's planning to excite her guests with an evening dedicated to her raving days, when she was a professional club dancer.
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01:00
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw
Like your favourite meal, Season 8 of The Cook Up with Adam Liaw always delivers. Cooking meets entertainment in the perfect blend of food, chat and laughs as Adam is joined each night by two guests and their recipes matched to a different theme.
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01:30
The Cook and the Chef
School holidays mean finding things for the kids to do, and Maggie and Simon get some kids busy looking for mushrooms and picking plums. Simon also visits a mussel farm in Port Lincoln and asks if mussels are a kid-friendly food.
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02:00
Rick Stein's Taste of the Sea
You can almost smell the ocean as Rick strolls with his dog along the Cornish shore, joins fishermen on their quest for a catch, and chooses the freshest ingredients for his simple, exquisitely flavoured recipes.
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02:30
Food Unwrapped
Uncovers the truth about the food we eat. Jimmy Doherty finds out what pub-grub favourite whitebait actually is. Then he goes to Latvia to learn why we can't get it in supermarkets. Kate Quilton is in America at a gigantic cattle feed lot to see whether it makes a difference what our meat eats. And Matt Tebbutt learns which confectionary treat can be deadly to man's best friend.
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03:00
My Market Kitchen
Elena and Khanh are taking out their anger on a bang bang chicken dish. Khanh brings his friend Hoda back into the kitchen and she is making a black sesame halva cheesecake.
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03:30
Food Safari Fire
Maeve O'Meara explores the ancient art of smoking in cuisines around the world, tasting hot smoked salmon and kingfish, West African condiments, flavoursome smoked lamb, Irish cold smoked bacon, and Kansas City style ribs.
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04:00
Mary Makes It Easy
Mary celebrates the perfect fiesta with pork carnitas, homemade pico de gallo, tacos dorados de papa with cotija cheese, and a bubbly bevy of pineapple spritz.
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04:30
Pati's Mexican Table
Pati meets with historian David Canales, who takes her to two very different styles of cantinas to learn their fascinating history.
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05:00
Michel Roux's French Country Cooking
Michel makes a decadent brunch starting with cheese souffles. A visit to a historic restaurant in Avignon inspires a classic smoked chicken and mushrooms pithivier, then a wine jelly with fruits.
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06:00
Barossa Gourmet with Justine Schofield
Justine tastes some delicious local wines, then ventures into traditional French cooking with vino cotto French shallot tarte Tatin, followed by braised zucchini with lemon and garlic.
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06:30
Tareq Taylor's Nordic Cookery
Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden has recently been discovered as an exciting destination by both international travel journalists and food bloggers.
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07:00
Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield
Coconut Super Spread Cookies and Camembert Fillo Parcels are prepared by Justine. Josh Niland is back and in fine form with a delectable Almond Meringue and Green Apple Caramel Fool.
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07:30
Nigella Express
Nigella Lawson cooks up more delicious recipes to get fabulous food on the table fast. With her great short cuts, spending hours over a hot stove could become a distant memory. Nigella shows how an incredible flash fried steak with white bean mash for supper home alone can be on the table in just ten minutes. For an entire weekend lunch for the family in twenty minutes it has to be curry in a hurry, a simple and delicious crowd pleaser.
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08:00
Tales from River Cottage
Hugh recalls the progress of his horticultural skills over his three years in Dorset, from putting in his first organic vegetable beds, running the gauntlet of pests, to harvesting bumper crops from his polytunnel. He also offer tips on how to triumph at the local horticultural show - don't follow his example.
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08:30
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw
Like your favourite meal, Season 8 of The Cook Up with Adam Liaw always delivers. Cooking meets entertainment in the perfect blend of food, chat and laughs as Adam is joined each night by two guests and their recipes matched to a different theme.
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09:00
Memory Bites with Matt Moran
Matt Moran explores Ross Noble's childhood through prawn cocktail, Kedgeree, and Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble, revealing how Grandma Edith and a Billy Connolly album inspired his comedy career.
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09:30
Nigella Kitchen
It's time for some seriously delicious eating, and in Nigella's kitchen, every mouthful is devilishly good. First up is her fabulous, fiery, red jumbo chilli sauce with tortilla chips, washed down with a cool and classic Americano cocktail. If it's ease you need, she's got the answer: it's greed-gratifying roast duck and potatoes with a simple salad.
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10:00
Hugh's Three Good Things
The star ingredient is beetroot. Watch out for the following recipes: an egg anchovy salad, marinated beetroot, blue cheese and poppy seeds and yoghurt soup. Which one will be the winner?
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10:30
Food Unwrapped
Jimmy Doherty is in Greece, where he learns that Greek yogurt production creates a troublesome by-product. Kate Quilton heads out to the Atlas Mountains in Morocco to uncover the secrets of saffron fraud. And Matt Tebbutt finds out why you can't eat kidney beans raw.
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11:00
My Market Kitchen
Elena and her friend Rob Rees are in the kitchen cooking a duck confit with celeriac, spinach and red wine glaze. Khanh then shows us his ham and leek quiche.
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11:30
Food Safari Fire
In the series finale, Maeve embraces the ingenuity of the home-made barbecue, exploring the remarkably adaptable 44 gallon drum used in the Kimberley as a smoker for barramundi and in Jamaica to cook jerk chicken and pork, as well as various parts of fridges, wheelie bins and lawnmowers welded into cooking devices.
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12:00
Mary Makes It Easy
Mary commemorates her recent travels by creating tasty dishes inspired by Italy, like apple raspberry crostata and mushroom crespelle.
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12:30
Pati's Mexican Table
Pati learns the difference between carne asada and 'Texas style' BBQ at a local eatery.
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13:00
Michel Roux's French Country Cooking
In this delightful masterclass, Michel cooks a celebration meal featuring a curried mussel millefeuille, a rich venison daube and a trio of differently flavoured choux buns.
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14:00
Barossa Gourmet with Justine Schofield
Justine and her chef friend Cullum create beetroot risotto with fetta and hazelnuts, and tomato bruschetta. Justine then heads back to the spectacular Barossa Valley Wine Company to make crumbed lamb cutlets.
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14:30
Tareq Taylor's Nordic Cookery
Tareq visits the unspoilt nature of Lulea, home to the beautiful Tree Hotel: a collection of treehouses built by an award-winning architect.
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15:00
Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield
Justine bakes a delicious Dutch Baby before we visit New Caledonia for a Raw Fish Salad. Adam Swanson prepares Spinach Fettuccine with Creamy Leek and Pancetta.
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15:30
Nigella Express
Nigella's conjuring up dazzling Italian food in a flash from sensational pasta to an entire effortless feast. She cooking, she's shopping, she's entertaining and sharing fabulous fast cooking tips. There's pasta pronto, linguine with a sensational raw sauce of lemon, garlic and thyme mushrooms. Then a fabulous, no stress, no effort anti pasti feast with marsala honey pears and gorgonzola.
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16:00
Tales from River Cottage
Hugh celebrates his growing affection for pigs and pork over his three years as a Dorset smallholder. From how to buy a pig, to how to make dry-cured bacon and hams, this is a guide to all things piggy. Hugh also brings us up to date on his beloved breeding sow Delia, who he has even trained to hunt for truffles.
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16:30
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw
Extraordinary entertainer Emma Watkins and French food icon Guillaume Brahimi join Adam to release some memorable dinner delights.
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17:00
Lorraine's Fast, Fresh and Easy Food
In the final episode, Lorraine makes easy, delicious dishes that you can rustle up every day. There's pan fried pork chops with a watercress, peach & stilton salad and a lemon ginger dressing and a simple Malaysian net bread that's great served with dips or curries.
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17:30
Donal Skehan: Home Cook
In this episode, Donal has got the gang coming around so will be making some of his favourite dishes for entertaining.
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18:00
Easy Ways to Live Well
This week Hugh and Steph challenge one GP surgery to test out easy solutions for their compulsive snacking while they also tackle their own health concerns - from Hugh's stress to Steph's dodgy stomach.
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19:05
Come Dine with Me
34 year old catering manager Garry is today's host and he's got plans to wow his guests with an exclusive Ibiza Beach Club theme.
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19:30
Come Dine with Me
It's the final night in Glasgow and fishmonger Bernadette's hoping to spread some love with her curious 'Italian' themed menu.
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20:00
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw
Extraordinary entertainer Emma Watkins and French food icon Guillaume Brahimi join Adam to release some memorable dinner delights.
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20:30
The Cook and the Chef
Raise a toast to the glorious grape as Simon and Maggie celebrate with the fruit of the vine. In Maggie's Barossa kitchen, they showcase a range of savoury and sweet dishes cooked with whole grapes, dried grapes, wine and vine leaves. These delicious ingredients are teamed beautifully with some other 'liquid' treasures.
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21:00
Rick Stein's Taste of the Sea
Rick's recipes range from the very simple to the complex, but one of his greatest pleasures is cooking simple fish dishes on a warm Cornish coast.
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21:30
Hugh's Three Good Things
The star ingredient is beetroot. Watch out for the following recipes: an egg anchovy salad, marinated beetroot, blue cheese and poppy seeds and yoghurt soup. Which one will be the winner?
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22:00
Lorraine's Fast, Fresh and Easy Food
In the final episode, Lorraine makes easy, delicious dishes that you can rustle up every day. There's pan fried pork chops with a watercress, peach & stilton salad and a lemon ginger dressing and a simple Malaysian net bread that's great served with dips or curries.
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22:30
Donal Skehan: Home Cook
In this episode, Donal has got the gang coming around so will be making some of his favourite dishes for entertaining.
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23:00
Easy Ways to Live Well
This week Hugh and Steph challenge one GP surgery to test out easy solutions for their compulsive snacking while they also tackle their own health concerns - from Hugh's stress to Steph's dodgy stomach.
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TV guide - Wednesday, 19/03/25

00:05
Come Dine with Me
34 year old catering manager Garry is today's host and he's got plans to wow his guests with an exclusive Ibiza Beach Club theme.
en
00:30
Come Dine with Me
It's the final night in Glasgow and fishmonger Bernadette's hoping to spread some love with her curious 'Italian' themed menu.
en
01:00
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw
Extraordinary entertainer Emma Watkins and French food icon Guillaume Brahimi join Adam to release some memorable dinner delights.
en
01:30
The Cook and the Chef
Raise a toast to the glorious grape as Simon and Maggie celebrate with the fruit of the vine. In Maggie's Barossa kitchen, they showcase a range of savoury and sweet dishes cooked with whole grapes, dried grapes, wine and vine leaves. These delicious ingredients are teamed beautifully with some other 'liquid' treasures.
en
02:00
Rick Stein's Taste of the Sea
Rick's recipes range from the very simple to the complex, but one of his greatest pleasures is cooking simple fish dishes on a warm Cornish coast.
en
02:30
Food Unwrapped
Jimmy Doherty is in Greece, where he learns that Greek yogurt production creates a troublesome by-product. Kate Quilton heads out to the Atlas Mountains in Morocco to uncover the secrets of saffron fraud. And Matt Tebbutt finds out why you can't eat kidney beans raw.
en
03:00
My Market Kitchen
Elena and her friend Rob Rees are in the kitchen cooking a duck confit with celeriac, spinach and red wine glaze. Khanh then shows us his ham and leek quiche.
en
03:30
Food Safari Fire
In the series finale, Maeve embraces the ingenuity of the home-made barbecue, exploring the remarkably adaptable 44 gallon drum used in the Kimberley as a smoker for barramundi and in Jamaica to cook jerk chicken and pork, as well as various parts of fridges, wheelie bins and lawnmowers welded into cooking devices.
en
04:00
Mary Makes It Easy
Mary commemorates her recent travels by creating tasty dishes inspired by Italy, like apple raspberry crostata and mushroom crespelle.
en
04:30
Pati's Mexican Table
Pati learns the difference between carne asada and 'Texas style' BBQ at a local eatery.
en
05:00
Michel Roux's French Country Cooking
In this delightful masterclass, Michel cooks a celebration meal featuring a curried mussel millefeuille, a rich venison daube and a trio of differently flavoured choux buns.
en
06:00
Barossa Gourmet with Justine Schofield
Justine and her chef friend Cullum create beetroot risotto with fetta and hazelnuts, and tomato bruschetta. Justine then heads back to the spectacular Barossa Valley Wine Company to make crumbed lamb cutlets.
en
06:30
Tareq Taylor's Nordic Cookery
Tareq visits the unspoilt nature of Lulea, home to the beautiful Tree Hotel: a collection of treehouses built by an award-winning architect.
en
07:00
Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield
Justine bakes a delicious Dutch Baby before we visit New Caledonia for a Raw Fish Salad. Adam Swanson prepares Spinach Fettuccine with Creamy Leek and Pancetta.
en
07:30
Nigella Express
Nigella's conjuring up dazzling Italian food in a flash from sensational pasta to an entire effortless feast. She cooking, she's shopping, she's entertaining and sharing fabulous fast cooking tips. There's pasta pronto, linguine with a sensational raw sauce of lemon, garlic and thyme mushrooms. Then a fabulous, no stress, no effort anti pasti feast with marsala honey pears and gorgonzola.
en
08:00
Tales from River Cottage
Hugh celebrates his growing affection for pigs and pork over his three years as a Dorset smallholder. From how to buy a pig, to how to make dry-cured bacon and hams, this is a guide to all things piggy. Hugh also brings us up to date on his beloved breeding sow Delia, who he has even trained to hunt for truffles.
en
08:30
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw
Extraordinary entertainer Emma Watkins and French food icon Guillaume Brahimi join Adam to release some memorable dinner delights.
en
09:00
Lorraine's Fast, Fresh and Easy Food
In the final episode, Lorraine makes easy, delicious dishes that you can rustle up every day. There's pan fried pork chops with a watercress, peach & stilton salad and a lemon ginger dressing and a simple Malaysian net bread that's great served with dips or curries.
en
09:30
Donal Skehan: Home Cook
In this episode, Donal has got the gang coming around so will be making some of his favourite dishes for entertaining.
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10:00
Hugh's Three Good Things
The same cast of characters return - they all cook across five days, to find a 'winner of the week'. Today's focus is tomatoes with recipes such as roasted lamb shoulder and tomatoes with grey mullet.
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10:30
Food Unwrapped
Jimmy Doherty discovers that everyone's favourite supplement, Omega 3, could have an uncertain future. Kate Quilton travels to piggy paradise in Spain to look into why Iberico ham is so expensive. And Matt Tebbutt investigates how white chocolate can be made from a brown cocoa bean.
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11:00
My Market Kitchen
Khanh and Elena make avocado mango turkey wraps followed by a Middle Eastern spiced lamb san choy bow, with Adam from Wine Selectors pairing the perfect wines.
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11:30
Food Safari Earth
Maeve O'Meara returns with Food Safari Earth, exploring how multicultural Australia cooks with the delicious variety of fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs, grains, pulses and flowers cultivated by Mother Nature. Maeve meets Sydney chef Peter Gilmore, Thai chef Amy Chanta, Middle Eastern chef Joseph Abboud, and one of Australia's most acclaimed chefs, Martin Benn as they celebrate the awesome power of the humble vegetable across the world's cuisines.
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12:00
Mary Makes It Easy
Get the best of both worlds when Mary mashes ideas together to get wacky dishes like Caesar salad roast chicken and taco meatball skillet.
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12:30
Pati's Mexican Table
Pati meets Chef Hugo Guajardo, whose family-owned restaurant El Caminante has perfected the art of drying meat.
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13:00
The Julia Child Challenge
Eight home cooks and Julia Child superfans enter Julia's kitchen to compete in a competition inspired by her amazing life, with a little help from Julia herself.
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14:00
Barossa Gourmet with Justine Schofield
Justine travels to the beautiful Trevallie Orchard to make a fresh poached peach fool, then meets with head chef Derek Salmon to make gin-cured ocean trout with creme fraiche.
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14:30
Tareq Taylor's Nordic Cookery
The Danes and the Swedes have fought over Halmstad for centuries and although today it's part of Sweden, you can still find clear evidence in the local gastronomy that it was once Danish.
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15:00
Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield
Justine makes Crispy Fried Chicken Drumsticks and Laura Cassai visits to create Egg Vermicelli with Sardines. And for something sweet Justine finishes with Apple and Cherry Crostata.
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15:30
Nigella Express
This episode, Nigella cooks up perfect recipes for after-work entertaining such as a fast food processor chocolate cake with a ready-made peppermint syrup drizzle and a DIY dinner. Then, for a casual super speedy supper, Nigella's making crab and avocado salad with a zesty Japanese dressing. Elegant, substantial and ready in minutes.
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16:00
Tales from River Cottage
Good friends and helpful neighbours are an essential part of the rural idyll. Hugh recalls his initiation into the rural Dorset community around River Cottage, with highlights of hospitality at home and away, from a posh dinner at the manor house to a riotous evening at the local Cider Shed.
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16:30
The Cook Up with Adam Liaw
Stop right now, thank you very much, and take a trip to spice world with Adam and his guests, comedian Tegan Higginbotham and chef Tom Sarafian.
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17:00
Nadiya's Cook Once Eat Twice
Nadiya Hussain kicks off this new six-part crafty cooking series encouraging us to make overlooked, everyday ingredients the star of the show.
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17:30
Rachael Ray's Meals in Minutes
Rachael shows us how to whip up a French-country inspired tangy, creamy chicken dinner with vinegar and tarragon, served alongside a simple salad and baguette with soft butter.
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18:00
Cooking Italy
Chef Rob serves a beautiful wine at his restaurants from a stunning vineyard near Naples called Masseria Frattasi.
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18:30
Ready Jet Cook
Jet Tila shares how to get Korean flavours into your home kitchen. He fuses cultures with his Korean Short Rib Tacos made with braised beef and a sticky sauce and creates paper-thin slices of rib-eye for a classic Korean barbecue dish, Spicy Beef Bulgogi.
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19:00
Come Dine with Me
This week's competition is in Cardiff, where first up is 41 year old, camper van loving, Angharad. Hoping to impress her guests with a true taste of Wales, featuring traditional soup, lamb and a cake.
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19:30
Come Dine with Me
Tonight's host is 49 year police officer Claire and she's going all out with a cruise themed menu with stop offs in Italy and China. But will a maiden voyage into vegan cooking dash her hopes to win?
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