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World Service,08 Mar 2011,28 mins

08/03/2011

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: Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston talks about her new book; a new Chinese action comedy film called Let the Bullets Fly; we speak to the director of a new documentary called The Desert of Forbidden Art; and the composer and pianist Malek Jandali discusses music written on a clay tablet from the ancient Syrian city called Ugarit.

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