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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: 12/09/2012

12/09/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 12/09/2012

African-American crime writer Attica Locke talks about her latest novel The Cutting Season

African-American writer Attica Locke talks about her latest novel The Cutting Season, set on an old plantation in the deep South where the dark history of slavery hangs heavily over the present day.

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

On today's programme: African-American crime writer Attica Locke (pictured) talks about her latest novel. We ask whether there has been any sign of a resurgence of arts and culture in Somalia and Nosheen Abbas reports on the Pakistani truck art which is now inspiring fashion designers in Karachi.

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