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Harriett Gilbert and Mark Coles welcome you to the weekday arts show, The Strand.

On Today's Show

A Raisin In The Sun

A Raisin in the Sun made its Broadway premiere 50 years ago in March 1959.

The play tells the story of a lower class black family's struggle in Chicago to gain middle class acceptance.

Written by Lorraine Hansberry when she was only 29 years old, during the time when the civil rights movement was gathering pace, it has become one of the greatest American drams of the 20th century.

The Strand looks at the impact of the play with US actor Novella Nelson and British actor/ director/ producer Josette Bushell Mingo.

The Kindly Ones

Jonathan Littel's gargantuan novel The Kindly Ones was garlanded with prizes, compared to Tolstoy and sold in millions when it was published in France.

Now the book is at last available in English and the critics are divided. One newspaper blasted it as "criminally inane" while a noted British historian dubbed it a "great work of literary fiction".

On The Strand Harriett Gilbert gets the final word on this literary sensation.

Jacques Schwartz Bart

Guadeloupe saxophonist whose latest album 'Abyss' assimilates the Gwoka music of his home island with New York jazz - and both lead to Africa.
This is the music of what lies behind recent ructions in Guadeloupe.

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