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Harriett Gilbert and friends present global arts, culture and entertainment.

This programme is no longer on-air, listen to our archive of available episodes online. The Strand brings you news and reviews from the best in arts, culture and entertainment.

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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: Mariko Mori

Transcircle 1.1 (Indoor) by Mariko Mori

24/12/2012

Mariko Mori

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, Mariko Mori

In a festive-themed Strand we hear about Christmas tunes from South Africa and Chile.

Festive music, Mariko Mori and Christmas in China.

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

Presented by Anna McNamee.

On today's programme: The BBC’s Audrey Brown and Carolina Robino sit down with Anna to talk through their favourite pieces of Christmas music from their respective South African and Chilean homelands, and there are no log fires or snowmen in sight! 

The Japanese artist Mariko Mori is re-imagining ancient myths and using state-of-the-art technology to chart the life and death of a star from an observatory in Japan to create mesmerising sculptures and installations in her new exhibition Rebirth. 

Christmas in China is not, by tradition, their main festival which remains Chinese New Year. But Christmas revelry and consumerism is on the rise, we hear more from the humour columnist and TV host Linda Kennedy in Hong Kong, who is watching the mainland getting merry.

Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images.

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