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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: 26/06/2012

26/06/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 26/06/2012

The runaway success of the Indian TV chat show tackling controversial subjects.

The runaway success on Indian TV at the moment is a chat show fronted by Bollywood star Aamir Khan - it's tackling controversial subjects, causing debate and leading to political change

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

On today's programme: A new television chat show in India tackling controversial subjects, film directors Lynn Shelton and Sarah Polley and Caine Prize nominee Stanley Kenani.

(Image: Aamir Khan, centre, addresses journalists as Rajya Sabha MP Shanta Kumar, right, looks on. This news conference followed a parliamentary panel that had met to discuss medical problems plaguing India, and which were highlighted in Khan's hit TV show Satyamev Jayate. Credit: AFP PHOTO / Prakash Singh / Getty Images)

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