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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: Michael Chabon on his novel Telegraph Avenue

Michael Chabon on his novel Telegraph Avenue

12/10/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, Michael Chabon on his novel Telegraph Avenue

Anna McNamee talks to Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon.

Today, in a special programme Anna McNamee talks to Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon.

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

Today, in a special programme Anna McNamee talks to Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon.  His new book, Telegraph Avenue, set on a real street in his home town in California tells the story of two old friends, and co-owners of a second hand record shop whose livelihood is threatened by the planned arrival of a music superstore nearby.   

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