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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: Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

04/10/2010

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, Barbara Kingsolver

Bestselling writer Barbara Kingsolver talks about her acclaimed book The Poisonwood Bible

Harriett Gilbert talks to bestselling writer Barbara Kingsolver about her internationally acclaimed novel The Poisonwood Bible.

Harriett Gilbert and readers at the Jesus Centre in London, talk to bestselling writer Barbara Kingsolver about her internationally acclaimed novel The Poisonwood Bible.  

Having sold four million copies around the world, Kingsolver's most ambitious novel paints an intimate portrait of a crisis-ridden family amid the larger backdrop of an African nation in chaos. 

In 1959 an overzealous Baptist minister Nathan Price drags his wife and four daughters deep into the heart of the Congo on a mission to save the unenlightened souls of Africa. 

As his plans unravel in tandem with the country's dreams of becoming an independent democracy, the five women narrate the novel, each in their own inimitable voice.

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