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World Service,24 Aug 2010,28 mins

The Strand - Tuesday 24th 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 Mark Coles. In today's programme: we review the new film made about Stieg Larsson's book The Girl Who Played With Fire, we take a trip to Egypt to look at Aswan Granite sculptures, the National Theatre of Scotland perfom a play about Scotland's attempt to colonize Panama and poet Yang Lian gives us the three books that he feels helps to define his country - China.

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