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World Service,05 Aug 2010,28 mins

05/08/2010

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 Macnamee. In today’s programme: Matisse: Radical Invention, a new exhibition in New York; Africa Express in Galicia; author Jean Kwok on her book Girl in Translation; Gruff Rhys, front man of the Super Furry Animals. Photo of Bassekou Kouyate Vieux Farka Toure by Simon Phipps.

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