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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: 29/07/2011

29/07/2011

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 29/07/2011

The Egyptian artist Khaled Hafez on the Arab Spring, art and disco music

Egyptian artist Khaled Hafez and ex-cowboy thriller writer C J Box.

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

On today's programme: Egyptian artist Khaled Hafez, whose work is now seen as a premonition of the Arab Spring talks politics, art and disco music and ex-cowboy thriller writer C J Box on wolves, grizzlies and human killers.

Photo of C.J Box by Roger Carey.

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