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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: 17/09/2012

17/09/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, 17/09/2012

Toronto International Film Festival, Diana Vreeland and a controversial play from Uganda.

We review the Toronto International Film Festival, discuss a film about legendary American journalist and fashion editor Diana Vreeland and find out about a controversial play from Kampala, Uganda.

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

On today's programme: Critic Noah Richler looks at the number of literary adaptations on offer this year at the Toronto International Film Festival - are they as good as the books? Director (and granddaughter-in-law) Lisa Immordino Vreeland discusses her documentary film about the legendary American journalist and fashion editor Diana Vreeland. And we find out why a British theatre producer is in trouble with the law for putting on a play about gay life in Kampala.

Illustration from the film Midnight's Children adapted by Salman Rushdie and directed by Deepa Mehta.

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