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World Service,15 Jul 2010,28 mins

The Strand - Thursday 15th July 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 Anna McNamee. In today's programme: Norman Lebrecht discusses the impact of the composer Gustav Mahler, a new film about the young Barack Obama called The Menteng Kid and American author Barbara Kingsolver talks about her new book 'Lacuna.'

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