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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: Angélique Kidjo

Angélique Kidjo

01/01/2013

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, Angélique Kidjo

Audrey Brown talks to Grammy Award–winning Beninoise singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo.

In a special edition of The Strand, Audrey Brown talks to Grammy Award–winning Beninoise singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo.

In a special edition of The Strand, Audrey Brown talks to Angélique Kidjo – often  heralded as  Africa’s première diva – about her singing, her new album collaborating with Diane Reeves and Branford Marsalis and about her philanthropic work.

Plus of course we hear plenty of the magnificent sound of Kidjo’s singing from Spirit Rising.

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