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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: Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer

Sayed Kashua

01/03/2013

Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer

The two American songwriters talk to us about their current release Child Ballads.

We talk to the Arab Israeli writer, Sayed Kashua, whose latest novel follows the stories of two very different Arab Israelis living in Jerusalem

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

We talk to the Arab Israeli writer, Sayed Kashua, whose latest novel follows the stories of two very different Arab Israelis living in Jerusalem and deals with the inevitable thorny issue of identity.

The two American songwriters, Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer,  talk to us about their arrangement of a selection of epic old Celtic folk songs for their current release Child Ballads. They also perform one of them.

Image credit: Jay Sansone

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