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The Strand Weekend is an 55 minute programme highlighting the best of what's been broadcast on The Strand during the week. Wide-ranging and with eclectic interests, it 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 Weekend Archive: Hitchcock & Psycho

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Sacha Gervasi's film Hitchcock

16/12/2012

Hitchcock & Psycho

BBC World Service - The Strand Weekend Archive, Hitchcock & Psycho

Film critic Owen Gleiberman on Hitchcock starring Anthony Hopkins

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

South Africa Animation 
We speak to the producer behind Adventures in Zambezia, the first African film to be nominated for a major American animation award. 

Hitchcock & Psycho
Film critic Owen Gleiberman on Sacha Gervasi's film Hitchcock which stars Anthony Hopkins as the legendary director and also why Psycho is such an important cinematic milestone. 

Beck and Ed Harcourt
Beck is a musician renowned for his experimental approach to music making, and his latest album is typically avant-garde; it exists only as a beautiful collection of sheet music for musicians to interpret. British singer songwriter Ed Harcourt is a fan and he came into interpret the tunes for us.

Mr. Handel
Louis de Bernières talks about Mr. Handel  - his new play with chamber orchestra as he represents the composer talking to his contemporaries in the afterlife.

Rachael Young 
New Zealand Conductor Rachael Young on how the music of Russia first propelled her on her way to success.

Science Seal of Approval for Fiction
Jane O'Brien reports on a move by one of the oldest scientific institutions in the US to award a seal of approval to fiction writers who make credible use of science in their books.

Richard Russo
Mark Coles talks to Pullitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo, not about his fiction but about his memoir, "On Helwig Street" in which he reveals facts about his mother and his upbringing in the small 1950s glove-making town of Gloversville, New York.

Tinariwen
Two members of the Grammy Award wining Saharan blues band, Tinariwen, drop by to talk to us and record a live session track.

(Image: Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren on the red carpet for their film Hitchcock, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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