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The 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
It's the Russian capital's foremost exhibition of contemporary art. We talk to critic Louisa Buck about the highlights from this month long event showcasing artistic talent from Russia and abroad.

The Strand music choices
Mark is joined by his colleague from the Russian Service Anya Dorodenko to cast an ear over three new album releases. They discuss the enormously popular, mega-selling British stadium-rock band Muse, Russian/Lithuanian singer Alina Orlova, and up-and-coming jazz group Portico Quartet.

Gunter Grass - 'The Tin Drum'
Each day this week, in advance of a special World Book Club this Saturday with world famous German writer Gunter Grass, we offer an insight into the man and his most memorable novel, The Tin Drum. Charting the rise and fall of Nazi Germany through the eyes of a ferocious dwarf named Oskar, The Tin Drum celebrates fifty years since it first came out in 1959.

Today, the novelist's right hand woman Hilke Ohsoling takes Harriett Gilbert behind the scenes of the Grass museum in Lubeck to discover Gunter Grass the sculptor and artist.

"Tom is Dead" by Marie Darrieussecq
Set in Australia, the new novel by the French award-winning writer Marie Darrieussecq, is about a young French family to whom the unthinkable happens. The author speaks to Mark about love, child mortality and the long shadows of grief.