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World Service,18 Jun 2010,28 mins

The Strand - Friday 18th June 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 Harriett Gilbert. In today's programme: The Portugeuse novelist Jose Saramago, a South African opera, dramatising the defining moments in the life of Nelson Mandela, and the novel To Kill a Mockingbird is 50 years old.

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