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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: 21/02/2012

21/02/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 21/02/2012

We continue discovering this year's Oscar-nominated foreign films; Today In Darkness.

We continue discovering the year's Oscar-nominated foreign films. Today In Darkness which tells of Leopold Socha, a sewer worker in Poland who shelters Jews from the Nazis during World War II.

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

Presented by Anna McNamee.

On today's programme: In Darkness, The Foundling and The Death of Klinghoffer.

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