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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: 30/10/2009

30/10/2009

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Samuel Maoz's film Lebanon, Michael Feinstein, Stalin, John Kani.

Samuel Maoz's film Lebanon, Michael Feinstein, Stalin, John Kani. Maoz's film takes place in 1982 on the first day of the invasion of Lebanon. We talk to Maoz about his own experiences as a soldier.

Samuel Maoz's film Lebanon 
The film takes place over 24 hours on June 6th, 1982,  the first day of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Herzl, Yigal and Assi are members of an IDF tank crew and the film explores the psychological crisis of the young soldiers. In fact with the exception of the opening and closing of the film, everything we see is from within the tank.We talk to Maoz about how his own experiences as a soldier in 1982 informed the film. 

Michael Feinstein
Michael Feinstein is one of the leading interpreters of the music of George Gershwin and the Great American songbook. In this interview from the piano for The Strand, he explains the continuing appeal of these timeless classics.

Stalin
In Russia 30th October is the national day of remembrance for the 20 million people who died during Stalin's reign. But in Georgia, one of Stalin's descendents wants the world to remember his great-grandfather in a positive light. The Strand goes to Tblisi to meet the artist Jacob Djugashvili, and to find out what being a Stalin has done for his career as a painter. 

John Kani
As we embark on a week long serialisation of George Orwell's Animal Farm in the lead up to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the South African actor, director and playwright John Kani who reads this classic satire especially for The Strand discusses its world relevance in which the animals of Manor Farm take up trotters against their human

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