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World Service,30 Jun 2010,28 mins

The Strand - Wednesday 30th 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 Bidisha. In today's programme: We review the new book by Hungary's leading novelist Peter Esterhazy, we meet Turkish writer Elif Shafak (in photo), photographer Leah Gordon's latest pictures from the recent earthquake in Haiti and American indie band They Might Be Giants talk about their new album.

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