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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: Busan International Film Festival 2012 in South Korea

Busan International Film Festival 2012 in South Korea

15/10/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, Busan International Film Festival 2012 in South Korea

We take a look at the highlights of this year’s Busan International Film Festival.

This was the 17th year for the South Korean film festival which came to an end on Saturday night. Jean Noh was there and takes us through the highlights.

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

Busan International Film Festival 2012
This was the 17th year for the South Korean film festival which came to an end on Saturday night. Jean Noh was there and takes us through the highlights.

David Nash at Kew
The wood sculptor presents an evolving exhibition in the UK's Royal Botanical gardens and explains the relationship between fire and wood and the conversations he has with his chosen medium.

Liao Yiwu
Chinese dissident author Liao Yiwu has just won the prestigious German Book Trade Peace Prize, and at the same time attacked the Chinese Nobel Laureate Mo Yan as a ‘state poet’. The Strand examines the differences and the dispute between two of China’s greatest writers. 

Image shows the closing ceremony of the 17th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea. Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images.

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