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World Service,24 Mar 2010,28 mins

The Strand - Wednesday 24th March 2010

The Strand

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The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day. Presented by Bidisha. In today's programme: Aminatta Forna's new novel The Memory of Love, Iranian musicians discuss the difficulties of releasing rock music in their country, we talk to the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize and we discuss Political Writing with crime novelists Joan Smith and Dominique Manotti.

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