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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: A Room for London

A Room for London

28/12/2012

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, A Room for London

A special edition of The Strand all about A Room for London.

A special edition of The Strand about A Room for London. Throughout 2012 a model of a boat has been perched above the river Thames, and writers have taken up residence inside.

A special edition of The Strand all about A Room for London. 

Throughout 2012 a model of a boat has been perched above the river Thames, and writers have taken up residence inside.  

Kamila Shamsie, Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Alain Mabanckou tell The Strand what it was like to live in a boat on a roof observing London and thinking about novelist Joseph Conrad, whose own boat and novel The Heart of Darkness, was part of the inspiration for the project.

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