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04/12/2010
The best of this week's global arts, film, literature and music.
06/12/2010
Acclaimed South African writer Damon Galgut talks about his novel The Good Doctor.
08/12/2010
Somewhere, Steve Reich, Miami Art Fair, Anne Holt.
07/12/2010
Featuring a tribute to South Africa's first black photojournalist.
09/12/2010
Vincent J.F. Huang tells Mark why he chose the UK for his performance called Habeas Corpus
10/12/2010
The Strand investigates the new secret weapons in the battle of ideas.
11/12/2010
13/12/2010
Catfish - the new film about an online relationship that's not quite what it seems.
14/12/2010
We talk to movie director John Woo who discusses his decision to leave America for China.
15/12/2010
The Strand talks to the curator of The Arab Museum of Modern Art in Dohar, Qatar.
16/12/2010
Mark Coles talks to Munich producer and founder of the ECM record label Manfred Eicher.
17/12/2010
The Strand reviews of the new film Black Swan starring Natalie Portman.
18/12/2010
The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day.
20/12/2010
Chatroom, The Little Prince, Read My Country, Levant.
21/12/2010
23/12/2010
Mark Coles talks to the prizewinning author Leila Aboulela about her latest book.
24/12/2010
The Strand 2010 Music Review.
22/12/2010
Villain, Kindles in Ghana, Greenaway's Last Supper, Nam June Paik.
27/12/2010
A special interview the veteran Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe.
28/12/2010
We talk to Peter Weir, one of Australia's most successful film-makers.
29/12/2010
This Strand special pulls together some of the highlights of the Read My Country series.
30/12/2010
Elite Squad 2, Author Alon Hilu, Artist Mark Wallinger plus Herman Leonard鈥檚 photographs
31/12/2010
In today's Strand, a special extended interview with Salman Rushdie.
03/01/2011
Harriett Gilbert talks to German writer Bernhard Schlink about his controversial novel.
04/01/2011
Oprah TV, Versailles Opera, Earl Lovelace.
06/01/2011
Mark talks to Danny Boyle about his new film, 127 Hours.
05/01/2011
Naiza Khan, The Next Three Days, Ecuador Cinema, Sunjeev Sahota.
07/01/2011
We review the Oscar-tipped film The Fighter, directed by David O. Russell.
10/01/2011
The best of the world's arts, film, literature and music brought to you every day.
11/01/2011
Film critic Adam Smith reviews the new Green Hornet film for The Strand
13/01/2011
Matt LeBlanc and Stephen Mangan discuss their new Anglo-American comedy Episodes