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World Service,24 Feb 2011,28 mins

24/02/2011

The Strand

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The best of the world's arts, film, literature and music brought to you every day. Presented by Mark Coles. In today's programme: writer Mirza Waheed discusses his first novel which is set in the disputed territory of Kashmir, we look at the foreign language Oscar nominated film Hors-la-loi, we examine how a nine hour series of plays chronicling the history of military occupation in Afghanistan and singer-songwriter June Tabor talks about her relationship to the sea.

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