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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: Sri Lankan music artist, Ashanthi

Ashanthi

06/11/2012

Sri Lankan music artist, Ashanthi

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Ashanthi; Chinese dissident literature; and the Art that Germany wants to forget.

Sri Lankan music artist Ashanthi; Chinese dissident literature; and the Art that Germany wants to forget.

Presented by Anna McNamee. Today’s programme includes Sri Lankan music artist Ashanthi; Chinese dissident literature; and the Art that Germany wants to forget. 

In China sales of so-called dissident literature are on the rise. Chinese tourists from the mainland are flocking to independent bookshops in Hong Kong to read banned books and profits for the booksellers are rocketing. We find out more from Linda Kennedy in Hong Kong.  

3 exhibitions opening across the country contrast State with Non-conformist art from the old East Germany. What happened to it after the Wall came down?

Ashanthi is the only female Sri Lankan artist signed to an international record label, and her latest album (in English and Sinhalese) is beginning to attract attention form R+B fans around the world.

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