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World Service,05 Oct 2010,28 mins

The Strand - Tuesday 5th October 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 Anna McNamee. In today's programme: the novelist William Gibson talks about coloured pens and brown paper, literature based on the last ten years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, a musical based on the life of the former Prime Minster Tun Mahathir and kitchens at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

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