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This programme is no longer on-air, listen to our archive of available episodes online. The Strand brings you news and reviews from the best in arts, culture and entertainment.

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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: 26/03/2012

26/03/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 26/03/2012

Anna McNamee introduces Wasteland, Wasteland, Wasteland by US author Claire Vaye Watkins.

Anna McNamee introduces the last of three stories in our Future Anatomies season. Today: Wasteland, Wasteland, Wasteland by American author Claire Vaye Watkins.

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

Anna McNamee introduces the last of three specially commissioned stories in the Future Anatomies season 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. 

Today: Wasteland, Wasteland, Wasteland by American author Claire Vaye Watkins.

With the arrival of an enigmatic visitor, a tight-knit community living on the edge of a nuclear waste dump in the future, is transformed.

Reader: Laurel Lefkow.

Photo of Claire Vaye Watkins by Lily Glass.

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