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World Service,08 Feb 2011,28 mins

08/02/2011

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: Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator Adhaf Soueif talks from Tahrir Square in Cairo, we talk to Sir David Chipperfield who has just won Britain's highest architecture award, a German photographer who has tried to capture the human cost of war and we visit an exhibition in Munich showcasing some sumptuous Orientalist art.

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