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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: Bolshoi Scandal

Inside the Bolshoi Theatre

19/03/2013

Bolshoi Scandal

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Bolshoi Scandals; Author Mikhail Shishkin; 'Rite of Spring' Centenary

A Russian focus today presented by Anna McNamee.

Bolshoi scandal
Following an acid attack on its director, the Russian ballet company the Bolshoi is in danger of gaining a reputation for intrigue. The Russian cultural commentator Konstantin Von Eggert tells us more. 

Mikhail Shishkin
Arguably Russia's greatest living writer Mikhail Shishkin talks about his latest book The Light and the Dark (original title - Pismovnik) which deals with love, death and time.  

The Rite of Spring 
In the centenary year of the first performance of Stravinsky’s masterpiece, we recall the uproar the Nijinsky-Diaghilev ballet caused at its first performance in Paris in 1913.

Image:   Inside the Bolshoi Theatre

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