The Strand - Wednesday 7th October 2009.
The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day. Presented by Bidisha.
The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day. Presented by Bidisha.
Hilary Mantel (above photo by John Haynes)
Fresh from her Booker win Bidisha talks to Hilary Mantel about her literary triumph, the blurring of fact and fiction in Wolf Hall and the prospect of a whole new readership for her work.
Shigeyuki Kihara
Shigeyuki Kihara is a visual and performance artist of Samoan & Japanese decent.聽 Kihara is also a member of Samoa's third gender community.聽 She tells The Strand how her lastest photographic series Vava'u: Tales from Ancient Samoa, where she enacts characters from the Samoan creation stories, explores all these aspects of her life.
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
The Strand talks to Lin Hwai-Min, founder and choreographer of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, one of Asia's leading contemporary dance groups about his visually stunning works. 聽
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan is touring around the world. They are at the Barbican in London 6 - 10th Oct with their work Wind Shadow.
Madeleine Albright - Jewel Power
The first woman Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talks to Bidisha about her new book 'Read My Pins - Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box'聽 and the accompanying exhibition of her jewellery at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
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Hilary Mantel
Man Booker prize winner, Hilary Mantel, talks to The Strand.
Duration: 07:00
Madeleine Albright
The US Secretary of State talks about The Power of Jewellery.
Duration: 13:50
Shigeyuki Kihara
Samoan artist on traditional influences and the third gender.
Duration: 18:45
Cloud Gate Theatre
Taiwanese dancers turning wind and shadows into beautiful theatre.
Duration: 26:28
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- Wed 7 Oct 2009 21:32GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
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