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In today's Strand - Fish Tank, Erick Setiawan, Brazilian Libraries, Twitter - The Fail Whale.

Fish Tank
The British director Andrea Arnold's short film Wasp won an Oscar in 2005, her first feature film, Red Road won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2006, and her follow up, Fish Tank, bagged the same prize at this year's festival. To mark its European release we discuss Fish Tank, which tells the story of 15 year old Mia who lives on a housing estate on the outskirts of London, and whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of her mother's new boyfriend.

Erick Setiawan
As a shy child in Indonesia Erick Setiawan grew up listening to his exuberent Chinese family telling stories of magic and family values. His debut novel - Of Bees and Mist - an adult fairytale inspired by his heritage and mixed the ideology of the US where he now lives.

Brazilian Libraries
Over the last five years a pioneering project in Columbia involving the construction of libraries has been credited by some as contributing to drastically cutting the murder rate. And now similar projects in Brazil are hoping to have the same effect but can providing books and libraries as opportunities to learn be a weapon in the war against crime?

Twitter- The Fail Whale
Yiying Lu is responsible for one of the most iconic images circulating the world's social media scene. Her illustration depicting a smiling white whale being lifted out of the ocean by a flock of little birds appears when the micro-blogging site, Twitter, has failed under the sheer load of its popularity. It's a failure message that conveys a lot of meaning in an instant. The illustration has since been dubbed the "Fail Whale" She discusses the art of designing for technological failures.