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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: 05/12/2009

05/12/2009

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 05/12/2009

The best of this week's Strand, including Joe Sacco
talking about his new book 'Footnotes in Gaza'.

The best of this week's Strand, including Joe Sacco
talking about his new book 'Footnotes in Gaza', an interactive Mona Lisa, veteran animator Richard Williams, the man who drew Roger Rabbit, direcor Uberto Pasolini talks about about his new film Machan, Newport jazz archive, Bamako Encounters: the 8th African photography biennial and Laleh Khadivi talks about her debut novel 'The Age of Orphans'.

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