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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 Infatuations by Javier Marias

Spanish author Javier Marias

18/03/2013

The Infatuations by Javier Marias

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, The Infatuations by Javier Marias

Javier Marias on his latest novel The Infatuations.

Spanish author Javier Marias; Neighbouring Sounds - new Brazilian film.

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

The Infatuations, the latest novel from multi-award winning Javier Marías, arguably Spain's greatest living author, starts with a stabbing.

A debut feature film from Brazil has been winning awards world-wide. Neighbouring Sounds is the fictionalised story of a few streets in the city of Recife, but filmed as if it were a documentary. What inspired the director to make this film?

(Image: Spanish author Javier Marias. Credit: Martin Schalk/Getty Images)

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