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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: The return of computer games icon, Lara Croft

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06/03/2013

The return of computer games icon, Lara Croft

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, The return of computer games icon, Lara Croft

Release of new Tomb Raider game sees return of icon Lara Croft - minus the hotpants

Release of new Tomb Raider game sees return of icon Lara Croft; novelist J.M. Coetzee and DJ Rita Ray selects new releases featured at the Sauti za Busara festival.

Helen Lewis, deputy editor of The News Statesman, discusses the return of computer games icon, Lara Croft. 

Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee's latest novel is called The Childhood of Jesus, although no one of that name appears in it.  A man and a boy arrive in an unnamed country, apparently refugees, with no memories of their previous existence. Fellow South African novelist Justin Cartwright attempts to get a grip on this mysterious work.

DJ Rita Ray, just back from the Sauti za Busara festival in Zanzibar has a selection of amazing new releases for your aural delight.  


(Image: Lara Croft, Tomb Raider. Credit: Square Enix)

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