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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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The Strand Archive: 14/11/2009

14/11/2009

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 14/11/2009

The best of this week's Strand, including an interview with Ang Lee, the Oscar-winning director of 'Taking Woodstock'.

The best of this week's Strand, including Ang Lee, the director of 'Taking Woodstock', 'Staff Benda Bilili' from the streets of Kinshasa, Toby Lester, the author of a new book about the Waldseemuller Map, can the master of plot John Grisham write in the trickier short format, what will the notoriously critical author Mario Vargas Llosa makes of the adaption of his book Captain Pantaleon, 'If We Must Die' by Claude Mackay and Gabriel Prokofiev (grandson of the more famous Sergei) has composed a concerto for turntables and orchestra.

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