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World Service,14 Nov 2009,28 mins

14/11/2009

The Strand

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The best of this week's Strand, including Ang Lee, the director of 'Taking Woodstock', 'Staff Benda Bilili' from the streets of Kinshasa, Toby Lester, the author of a new book about the Waldseemuller Map, can the master of plot John Grisham write in the trickier short format, what will the notoriously critical author Mario Vargas Llosa makes of the adaption of his book Captain Pantaleon, 'If We Must Die' by Claude Mackay and Gabriel Prokofiev (grandson of the more famous Sergei) has composed a concerto for turntables and orchestra.

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