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World Service,55 mins

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The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day. In a special edition of the Weekend Strand Harriett Gilbert talks to the South African Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer Then Mark Coles presents the highlights of The Strand's series Read My Country, in which international authors have selected novels, sometimes poetry and even plays, that they think sums up their homeland.

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