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World Service,20 Feb 2012,18 mins

20/02/2012

The Strand

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The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Today's programme includes a report by Alexa Dvorson from the Berlin on all the stand-out moments from this year's Festival. Singaporean artist and writer, Heman Chong proposes his city is the ideal example of the way capitalism projects itself as a symbol of our own imagined futures. Continuing our look at the foreign films nominated at this year's Oscars, satirist Peyvand Khorsandi explores why the film A Separation, speaks to Iranians at home and abroad. Presented by Harriett Gilbert Produced by Kate Adair

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