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The Strand - Wednesday
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Martin Vogl reports from the Festival in the Desert, the annual festival of Touareg music and culture in Essakane, Mali.
14 January - programme times (The Strand 3) | |
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COMING UP THIS WEEK |
| The Strand - Thursday |
Possible items include: As Motown marks 50 years of music, Mark Coles talks to Holland, Dozier and Holland, three of its original songwriters; An interview with author Gaile Parkin on her new novel Baking Cakes in Kigali, which it's hoped will do for Rwanda what The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency did for Botswana; A visit to Unesco World Heritage Site (WHS) Venice in Italy. Famed for its art and its canals, does having WHS status draw even more tourists to the city?
8 January - programme times (The Strand 4) | listen to current programme |
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| The Strand - Friday |
Possible items include: British director Danny Boyle discusses his new film Slumdog Millionaire. Set in the slums of Mumbai, it's won Best Film and Best Director prizes at the British Independent Film Awards and is being tipped for the Oscars; A report from the film set in Botswana for the new TV series of the best-selling series of novels The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency; The last in The Strand's series on Unesco World Heritage sites (WHS) - Rupa Jha takes a look round Humayun's tomb in Delhi, discovering that its architecture was a precursor to the Taj Mahal, and Mechtild Rossler, Chief of Europe and North America's World Heritage Sites, described how the sites are chosen, how they are conserved and what benefits being a WHS has to those listed.
9 January - programme times (The Strand 5) | listen to current programme
The Strand - Saturday
An hour-long compilation of highlights from the weekday editions of the programme, presented by Mark Coles.
10 January - programme times (The Strand 6) | listen to current programme |
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Charlie Gillett's World of Music
Charlie starts this week with the second album from rising Jamaican star Tarrus Riley, son of veteran reggae artist Jimmy Riley, and follows with the latest from Benin's Gangbe Brass Band - which has an intriguing Belgian twist. The Brazilian collaboration Sonantes get another airing as do British multi-national project Up, Bustle and Out. There's a track from the tall man of contemporary Croatian music, Mojmir Novakovic, and his band Kries who work with traditional musical forms from the Balkans. Nigerian singer Nkan Eledua does something similar on her album Songs of My Ancestors.
10 January - programme times | listen to current programme
Heart and Soul: Realms of Glory - Part 2 of 2
To dream of flying is a primeval instinct, reflected in the symbolism of the world's faiths. While few airline passengers today contemplate the religious dimension of flight, Gerald Butt argues that the experience of flying can be a deeply spiritual one. He explores why the physical process of rising into the sky can inspire intense spiritual reflection. Are our brains somehow wired in such a way that we feel exhilarated in overcoming the gravitational field of earth? He discusses these views with others who fly, including journalist and pilot Lane Wallace and Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, the story of a seagull learning about life and flight. British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion recites a new poem titled Coming In To Land - heard for the first time in this programme - which is based on the writings of a young airman killed in the Second World War.
10 January - programme times | Listen to current programme
The Strand - Monday
Possible items include: Patrick McCabe discusses his new novel The Holy City; A look at the music of change - the music of anger and pain that has been the soundtrack to the civil rights movement in the US; The first of the week's 'inaguration columns' in which guests such as Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, Raja Shehadeh, David Grossman and Aminatta Forna offer their views on President-Elect Barack Obama.
12 January - programme times (The Strand 1) | listen to current programme
The Strand - Tuesday
Possible items include: Kevin Le Gendre considers why the jazz of 1959 was so iconic. Fifty years ago the jazz scene produced some of the richest-ever albums, by artist from Miles Davis to Dave Brubeck; A review of Will Smith's new film Seven Pounds; A review of the late Roberto Bolano's newly translated novel 2666. Bolano is a major writer in the Spanish-speaking world but remains virtually unknown and un-translated in English.
13 January- programme times (The Strand 2) | listen to current programme
The Strand - Wednesday
Andrew Purcell reviews the film The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke; Prize-winning Italian writer Niccolo Ammaniti talks to Mark Coles about his new book The Crossroads; Martin Vogl reports from the Festival in the Desert, the annual festival of Touareg music and culture which takes place in Essakane, Mali, and assesses the affect of its popularity on Malian cuture.
14 January - programme times (The Strand 3) | listen to current programme
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