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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: 03/08/2010

03/08/2010

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 03/08/2010

How did Orhan Kemal's time in a prison cell with poet Nazim Hikmet, influence his writing?

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

Mark Coles bring you the best of the world's arts, film, music and literature.

In today's programme: a new translation of Orhan Kemal's In Jail with Nazim Hikmet; Richard Lewer's installation at the Melbourne Art Fair; and the re-opening of the opera house Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

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