Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,31 Dec 2011,18 mins

31/12/2011

The Strand

Available for over a year

The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Anna McNamee War Horse and Carnage Critic David D'Arcy reviews two new cinematic adaptations of plays, Steven Spielberg's World War I drama and Roman Polanski's dark comedy. Picture shows Kate Winslett and Christoph Waltz in Carnage. The Puppini Sisters Recreating the close-harmony stylings of 1940s girl groups like The Andrews Sisters, their new album is an assortment of tunes from the golden age of Hollywood. Olga Kravets The Russian photographer discusses her award-winning work documenting the evolution of Grozny in Chechnya.

Programme Website
More episodes