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25/08/2011

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

Today's programme includes an interview with Andrey Kurkov (pictured) and a new adaptation of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle.

Photo: E. Kurkova

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18 minutes

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Fri 26 Aug 201112:32GMT
BBC World Service Online

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Chapters

  • Andrey Kurkov

    Acclaimed Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov discusses his new book The Milkman in The Night, a sureal tale of sleepwalking and corruption in post-soviet Kiev.

    Duration: 08:06

  • The Wind Up Bird Chronicle

    We travel to Edinburgh to meet the director of the new adaptation of best-selling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's The Wind Up Bird Chronicle

    Duration: 07:25

Broadcasts

  • Thu 25 Aug 201121:32GMT
    BBC World Service Online
  • Fri 26 Aug 201102:32GMT
    BBC World Service Online
  • Fri 26 Aug 201108:32GMT
    BBC World Service Online
  • Fri 26 Aug 201112:32GMT
    BBC World Service Online