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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: Austerity Opera: Nostra Culpa

Austerity Opera - Eugene Birman and Scott Diel.

26/03/2013

Austerity Opera: Nostra Culpa

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, Austerity Opera: Nostra Culpa

Austerity opera, Middle East photography and Glaswegian-Iranian artist Jila Peacock.

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

Austerity Opera
A Twitter feud between the Estonian President, Toomas Hendrik Ilves and the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is being transformed into an unlikely opera. It's called Nostra Culpa - the Latin for "our fault".

Middle East Photography 
Tanya Habjouqa, one of the founders of Rawiya, the Middle East’s first all female photography collective discusses her work which is currently being shown at the New Art Exchange in Nottingham.

Jila Peacock 
The Glaswegian-Iranian artist Jila Peacock talks about her collaboration with the late British composer Jonathan Harvey. He had completed a new score based on the names of Zoroastrian angels and she creates a visual response.

Image: Eugene Birman and Scott Diel - the men behind Nostra Culpa. Image copyright Kaupo Kikkas.

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