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The Strand Weekend is an 55 minute programme highlighting the best of what's been broadcast on The Strand during the week. Wide-ranging and with eclectic interests, it 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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Angela Gheorghiu, Protest Arts International Festival Zimabwe, Egyptian Writers, Mourid Barghouti, Inuit Film: Sharing Our Stories, Anoushka Shankar

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

Angela Gheorghiu
One of the greatest sopranos of her generation, Angela Gheorghiu pays tribute to another great soprano of a different generation with her new CD - Homage to Maria Callas.

Protest Arts International Festival Zimabwe 
Steve Vickers reports as artists and scholars from across Africa and beyond gather to act, sing, and perform; PAIF's aim? To further political and social change.

Egyptian Writers 
Three writers from Egypt, Ahmed Khaled Towfik, Ahmed Mourad and  Khaled AlKhamissi discuss their latest novels and what it is to be an Egyptian writer now, after the tumultuous events in Tahrir Square and the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. 

Mourid Barghouti 
The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti talks about his new memoir I Was Born There, I Was Born Here and explains why he writes 'quiet' poetry.  

Inuit Film: Sharing Our Stories
Canada's NFB makes its inuit collection available to the world - 70 years worth of beautiful films tell a harsh, uncomfortable and inspiring story. 

Anoushka Shankar
(Daughter of sitar legend Ravi Shankar) has a new album that combines the classical Indian and Spanish flamenco music traditions

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