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Harriett Gilbert and friends present global arts, culture and entertainment.

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: Making with Thomas Heatherwick

Making with Thomas Heatherwick

25/07/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, Making with Thomas Heatherwick

Harriett Gilbert visits the designer Thomas Heatherwick in his studio.

London 2012's Olympic cauldron - a japanese temple in Kyoto or furniture for the global future - Harriett Gilbert visits the designer in his studio.

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

Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

London 2012's Olympic cauldron - a japanese temple in Kyoto or furniture for the global future - Harriett Gilbert visits the designer in his studio and gets there on London's new hop-on-hop-off Heatherwick-conceived bus.

Photo of The Rolling Bridge on the Grand Union Canal in Paddington Basin by Steve Speller.

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