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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: 01/06/2012

01/06/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 01/06/2012

A festival of West African art and music which is taking over Manchester this summer.

We Face Forward is a festival of West African art and music taking over Manchester this summer. Some of the artists and the curator Maria Balshaw talk to the BBC's Ekene Akalawu.

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On today's programme: A Festival of West African art and music called We Face Forward and interviews with artists Emeka Ogboh, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Barthélémy Toguo and curator Maria Balshaw; Joydeep Roy Bhattacharya talks about his latest novel, The Watch.

Photo Credit: by Jonathan Greet, Courtesy of October Gallery, London.

Part of the We Face Forward: Art from West Africa Today exhibition, across Manchester from 2 June until 16 September 2012.

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