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Harriett Gilbert and friends present global arts, culture and entertainment.

This programme is no longer on-air, listen to our archive of available episodes online. The Strand brings you news and reviews from the best in arts, culture and entertainment.

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The Strand is a daily 18 minute programme highlighting the best of what's going in the arts. Wide-ranging and with eclectic interests, The Strand reflects the artistic response to the BBC's news agenda. Presented by Harriett Gilbert and friends, it features discussions, reviews, big-name interviews and location reports as well as live studio performances and Hollywood, Bollywood gossip.

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Your daily journey into global arts, culture and entertainment, with Harriett Gilbert and Mark Coles.

We talk to Havana Marking, director of the prize-winning documentary Afghan Star about the singing contest in Afghanistan that is the country's most popular television programme.

We look at the origins of the Japanese comic work Manga at a new exhibition of incredible woodblock prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi one of the greatest print artists of the 19th Century.  Paul Gravett shows us around the 150 artefacts at London's Royal Academy of Arts

American historian Samuel Kassow talks to Harriett about his book Who Will Write Our History - a detailed study into the hidden Onyeg Shabes archives which were buried in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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