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The Strand Weekend is an 55 minute programme highlighting the best of what's been broadcast on The Strand during the week. Wide-ranging and with eclectic interests, it 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 Weekend Archive: 06/03/2010

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06/03/2010

BBC World Service - The Strand Weekend Archive, 06/03/2010

The best of this week's Strand, including Mukoma wa Ngugi talking about his first novel 'Nairobi Heat', a look at a new exhibition at the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts and the extraordinary story of Ion Barladeanu, a 63 year old Romanian artist.

Also, the new Karachi literary festival, the touring exhibition devoted to Ife art, Afghan author Atiq Rahimi and Jerry Dammers, leader of The Specials in the 1980s (pictured here).

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