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The Strand Weekend is an 55 minute programme highlighting the best of what's been broadcast on The Strand during the week. Wide-ranging and with eclectic interests, it 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 Weekend Archive: Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer

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10/03/2013

Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer

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

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

The two American songwriters talk to us about their arrangement of a selection of epic old Celtic folk songs for their current release Child Ballads.

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

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

Yinka Shonibare
FABRICATION is the most extensive exhibition of the British Nigerian artist's work to date. It features over 30 vibrant works and includes the premiere of Shonibare's Wind Sculptures, six metre high sculptures which look like giant pieces of batik fluttering in the wind.  

Tash Aw
The author joins us to talk about his new novel, Five Star Billionaire, which charts the lives of migrant Malaysian workers whose lives begin to overlap in Shanghai.

Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer
The two American songwriters 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.

Amish Tripathi 
Amish Tripathi, India's newest publishing phenomenon, tells us about how his just completed trilogy about Lord Shiva led to the largest book advance ever paid by an Indian publisher. 

Hear My Country: Israel 
Tel Aviv-born writer and jazz saxophonist Gilad Atzmon selects his choice of music which, for him, sum up the country of his birth Israel.

Emperor
A new Hollywood war film out this week starring Tommy Lee Jones as General Douglas MacArthur is no macho tale of allied heroics but a thoughtful look at the days after Japan's surrender at the end of World War II.

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

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