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World Service,16 Aug 2010,28 mins

The Strand - Monday 16th August 2010.

The Strand

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The best of the world's arts, film, literature and music brought to you every day. Presented by Harriett Gilbert. In today's programme: Harriett talks to the comic writer and animator Sylvain Chomet on his new feature The Illusionist, musicologist Lloyd Miller tells us why he teamed up with the British fusion band The Heliocentrics for a new album and novelist Mukoma wa Ngugi discusses the three books which he thinks act as a guide to the cultural identity of his home country - Kenya.

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