BBC Sounds - The Strand Archive - Available Episodes

Harriett Gilbert talks to the director of Shallow Grave and 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire.

• 18 mins
• 29 Mar 2013

Samira Ahmed talks to Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid.

• 18 mins
• 28 Mar 2013

The Strand celebrates one of the world's great writers - the late Chinua Achebe.

• 18 mins
• 27 Mar 2013

How a Twitter feud became an opera.

• 18 mins
• 26 Mar 2013

We announce the winners of the BBC World Service's What If competition.

• 18 mins
• 25 Mar 2013

Chinua Achebe, the acclaimed Nigerian novelist and poet has died.

• 18 mins
• 22 Mar 2013

Pulitzer Prize winning American writer Philip Roth is the subject of a new TV documentary

• 18 mins
• 21 Mar 2013

The American singer-songwriter talks to Mark Coles about his new album The Low Highway.

• 18 mins
• 20 Mar 2013

Bolshoi Scandals - we hear the latest.

• 18 mins
• 19 Mar 2013

Javier Marias on his latest novel The Infatuations.

• 18 mins
• 18 Mar 2013

The best selling author discusses her latest novel The Last Runaway.

• 18 mins
• 15 Mar 2013

Maya Jaggi, chair of the judges, reveals the name of the winner of the Man Asian Prize.

• 18 mins
• 14 Mar 2013

We examine the trend for western rock producers to work with prominent African musicians.

• 18 mins
• 13 Mar 2013

We discover how much Benedict XVI was keen to support the contemporary arts.

• 18 mins
• 12 Mar 2013

Fiona Talkington visits the Dark Music Days Festival in Iceland.

• 18 mins
• 11 Mar 2013

A review of Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes - clever satire or simple bad taste?

• 18 mins
• 08 Mar 2013

How Amish Tripathi's trilogy about Lord Shiva led to the largest book advance in India.

• 18 mins
• 07 Mar 2013

Release of new Tomb Raider game sees return of icon Lara Croft - minus the hotpants

• 18 mins
• 06 Mar 2013

Malaysian author Tash Aw's latest novel, Five Star Billionaire.

• 18 mins
• 05 Mar 2013

The 23rd FESPACO pan-African film festival, held in Burkina Faso, has just ended.

• 18 mins
• 04 Mar 2013