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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: 28/04/2011

28/04/2011

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 28/04/2011

Harriett talks to the winners of this year's Best Photography Book of the Year

Harriett talks to the winners of this year's Kraszna-Krausz Best Photography Book of the Year, novelist Elif Batuman and Clio Barnard the director behind The Arbor

Harriett talks to photographer David Goldblatt and novelist Ivan Vladislavic who have won this year's Kraszna-Krausz Best Photography Book of the Year,  Elif Batuman who describes her odyssey through the canon of Russian literature and Clio Barnard the director behind The Arbor, a portrayal of the late British playwright Andrea Dunbar.

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