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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: Missing Matisse Returned

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10/01/2013

Missing Matisse Returned

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, Missing Matisse Returned

Twenty Five years after it was stolen, Matisse’s Le Jardin is being returned to Sweden.

Twenty Five years after it was stolen, Matisse’s Le Jardin is being returned to Sweden. We speak to Christopher Marinello from The Art Loss Register

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Twenty Five years after it was stolen, Matisse’s Le Jardin is being returned to Sweden. We speak to Christopher Marinello from The Art Loss Register, the man who recovered it again.

Salamishah Tillet is Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination. She talks about the impact that Quentin Tarantino's new film has had on US audiences.

In China the notion of being a designer has not been widely accepted but today we speak to one of the new generation of artist/designers Yeli G who sells her beautiful recycled chairs to both international galleries and the old woman in her neighbourhood. What could unleashing the power of creative design mean in the new China?  

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