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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: 10/03/2012

10/03/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 10/03/2012

A special programme linked to the World Service season about the Human Race.

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

Presented by Anna McNamee

A special programme linked to the World Service season about the Human Race  

A discussion with the three writers commissioned to produce new stories for the World Service, which will be airing on The Strand at the beginning of the next three weeks. 

The writers of the Future Anatomies stories are the British authors Naomi Alderman and Joe Dunthorne and Claire Vaye Watkins from USA. 

We also hear from choreographers about the body in dance:  including the Spanish born Rafael Bonachela who has collaborated with Kylie and now heads the Sydney Dance company, Israeli born Hofesch Schechter - whose most recent collaboration was with the British artist Antony Gormley and British choreographer Wayne McGregor.

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