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World Service,27 Aug 2010,28 mins

The Strand - Friday 27th 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: Mark visits a museum devoted to the legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix, we hear about the new generation of Egyptian novelists, we're off to Japan for the Setouchi International Art Festival and we find out just how frightening horror movies can really be.

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