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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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The Strand Archive: The Strand - Monday 5th October 2009.

The Strand - Monday 5th October 2009.

05/10/2009

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This Monday's Strand is a shortened version of World Book Club with Gunter Grass.

This Monday's Strand is a shortened version of World Book Club with Gunter Grass. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

This week we’ve a special World Book Club coming from the northern German city of Lubeck.

This month's guest has been described as the world’s most important living writer. He is the Nobel prize-winning German novelist Gunter Grass and we’ve been invited to his home in Germany to put your questions to him about his internationally celebrated novel 'The Tin Drum'. Bitter and impassioned The Tin Drum charts the rise and fall of Nazism through the mischievous eyes of Oskar Matzerath, a dwarf who decided to stop growing at the age of three. First published half a century ago, The Tin Drum is being re-published in new translations all over the world this year to mark its 50th birthday.

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