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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: 12/03/2012

12/03/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 12/03/2012

Anna McNamee introduces the first of three brand new pieces of speculative fiction.

Anna McNamee introduces the first of three brand new pieces of speculative fiction by rising literary stars Naomi Alderman, Joe Dunthorne from the UK and Claire Vaye Watkins from the USA.

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

Anna McNamee introduces the first of three brand new pieces of speculative fiction by rising literary stars Naomi Alderman, Joe Dunthorne from the UK and Claire Vaye Watkins from the USA which are being broadcast on Mondays in March on The Strand as part of The Human Race Season on BBC World Service.  

These short stories imagine the emotional and social implications of developments in medicine and biotechnology in the near future.

On today's programme: Internal Investigations by Naomi Alderman (pictured).

A world in which human beings augment their bodies with technological implants to achieve the peak of physical and mental fitness - an ideology challenged only by The Silencers.

The reader is Nyasha Hatendi.

This story is now available as a Podcast.

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