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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: 04/08/2011

04/08/2011

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 04/08/2011

We review the documentary Magic Trip based on a 1964 drug-fuelled cross-country road trip

Magic Trip, Zimbabwean Art in Germany and Simon Van Booy.

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On today's programme, David D'Arcy reviews Magic Trip, a documentary based on Ken "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Kesey's 1964 drug LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip in the USA. 

A new exhibition in Munich, Germany showcases the best of contemporary Zimbabwean art. 

And short story writer Simon Van Booy discusses his first novel, Everything Beautiful Began After.

Photo of Magic Trip courtesy of Rama's Screen movie blog.

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