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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: Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher

Tom Cruise as 'Jack Reacher'.

21/12/2012

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher

A film special today on the Strand:  Jack Reacher and  Les Miserables.

A film special today on the Strand. 
Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher.  The film is based on the series of the internationally mega-selling crime fiction by the British writer Lee Child which features the muscular adventures of his Reacher - a taciturn 6 foot five, ex-US army military police officer who is happy most of the time to let his fists do the talking.  
And we talk to Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) and leading man Hugh Jackman about the film version of the hugely successful musical Les Miserables.
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