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The Strand - The Strand - Tuesday 24th August 2010

The best of the world's arts, film, literature and music brought to you every day. Presented by Mark Coles.

The best of the world's arts, film, literature and music brought to you every day. Presented by Mark Coles.

In today's programme: we review the new film made about Stieg Larsson's book The Girl Who Played With Fire, we take a trip to Egypt to look at Aswan Granite sculptures, the National Theatre of Scotland perfom a play about Scotland's attempt to colonize Panama and poet Yang Lian gives us the three books that he feels helps to define his country - China.

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