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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: Stephen Spielberg's new film, Lincoln

Lincoln

13/11/2012

Stephen Spielberg's new film, Lincoln

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, Stephen Spielberg's new film, Lincoln

The new movie by Stephen Spielberg takes us back to the American abolition of slavery.

Stephen Spielberg's new film about Abraham Lincoln takes us back in time to the American abolition of slavery.

Any Spielberg movie is a big deal. When it's about an American icon - President Abraham Lincoln - and is released so close to an election, it becomes even more monumental. But is it any good?

We hear from one of the photographers who have contributed to Invisible Borders, an exhibition currently on show at the Benin Bienalle.

As a major exhibition of photography from and about the Middle East opens in London, Anna McNamee meets three of the artists from the region.

Image: AP Photo/DreamWorks, Twentieth Century Fox, David James

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