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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: What is America?

What is America?

17/10/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, What is America?

Fifty monologues from leading US playwrights, on what America means to them

My America is a project devised by Kwame Kwei-Armah - artistic director of Center Stage in Baltimore, USA. Monologues by 50 playwrights about America, filmed by Hal Hartley.

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

My America
My America is a project devised by Kwame Kwei-Armah - artistic director of Center Stage in Baltimore, USA. Short monologues by 50 playwrights about America which have been filmed by Hal Hartley.    

Hip Hop in the Middle east
Saudi DJ Big Hass selects a couple of tracks that he feels reflect the situatuion musically and politically in the region.

Chico Buarque
As his latest novel, Spilt Milk, appears in English we hear about a founder of Bossa Nova, song-writer and award-winning novelist who is also a political hero in his home country, Brazil.

Photo shows Kwame Kwei-Amagh. © BBC.

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